I have just opened the latest AECbytes newsletter and read a fantastic article by US architect John Tobin. In Proto-building: to BIM is to build, he incorporates a lucid explanation of a famous Magritte painting, lots of talk about interoperability, and some memorable analogies, stretching from CAD on steroids (BIM 1.0) through The Big Bang …
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May 30 2008
Busy week at Bentley
It’s been a busy week on the PR and marketing front at Bentley Systems (at least that’s what my email inbox tells me, with eight emails yesterday alone). Of course, this flurry of announcements was predictable – it coincided with the annual BE Conference in Baltimore – but the event itself has also stimulated some …
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May 28 2008
Microsoft SaaS strategy “a work in progress”
According to the latest assessment from Springboard Research, the strategy of 'Software plus services' being pursued by Microsoft is still "a work in progress". Drawing on insights gained at the Microsoft's Asia Pacific Analyst Summit last month (when it announced Windows Live and Microsoft Online – see post), Springboard says it expects "Microsoft to struggle …
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May 22 2008
Projectcentre – an update
Following my post on ProjectCentre.net, I am very grateful to Jodie Miners at ProjectCentre for providing more background on the business and its core solution, including a painful reminder of the old paper-based days - read her comments here.
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May 12 2008
Future of the NCCTP
The future of the NCCTP, the UK construction collaboration technology providers association (now part of Constructing Excellence), is to be debated at a facilitated meeting of its steering group in London this week. The group was founded in late 2003 and set out to create some data exchange standards between the different vendors’ systems and to …
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May 12 2008
Projectcentre.net
Earlier this year, I started looking in a little more detail at the Australian construction collaboration technology market. Aconex, being active in the UK, obviously feature regularly in my thoughts (I believe their shareholder dispute may finally yield a judgement in the next month or so); I have written about Incite (here and here); and I linked to …
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May 08 2008
Cadweb tries to catch-up
The latest news release from UK construction collaboration technology vendor Cadweb – who describe themselves as “the longest and oldest, established project extranet provider in the UK” [just how long is Cadweb?] – shows that Cadweb has finally woken up to functional advances made by most of its UK competitors several years ago. Cadweb says it plans to add several …
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May 02 2008
SaaS market “to undergo very rapid revenue growth”
Recent market research conducted by UK-based Ovum suggests the SaaS (software as a service) market is set to undergo very rapid revenue growth. The company forecasts that the revenues generated by SaaS vendors will increase, in some regions, by at least 50% each year for the next four years (source: news from the Sofnet …
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Apr 30 2008
Desktop tools
UK construction collaboration technology provider Asite is now offering a desktop application, Asite Navigator, integrated with its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The tool is described by Asite as “an innovative client application (ie: installed on your PC) that removes the need for you to manage files manually between your office and your collaboration environment”. In short, …
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