According to a PRNewswire release, Meridian leads the US AEC market for project management software – based on returns to Constructech Magazine’s 2006 National Construction-Technology Survey (price: a mere $250!). When it comes to collaboration: "no single company dominates the collaboration space, but a range of providers have taken market share, including Meridian in the …
Category: Vendors
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/12/us_collaboratio/
Dec 05 2005
Crest Nicholson wins regeneration awards
With this week’s Building magazine comes the Regenerate supplement announcing the winners of the 2005 Regeneration Awards. I was pleased to see Crest Nicholson emerging victorious in three categories: Regeneration Housebuilder of the Year, Regeneration Developer of the Year, and Regeneration Partnership of the Year. Prominent in the citations was the Park Central project in …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/12/crest_nicholson/
Dec 02 2005
Extranets to embrace Ajax?
After reading about Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML – not scouring powder!) in Information Age last week, I was browsing Information Week online when I found this interview with a Microsoft product manager. It grabbed my attention because a) it reminded me how responsive Google Maps is, and b) it asked me to imagine that …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/12/extranets_to_em/
Dec 01 2005
Why do insurers overlook the advantages of extranets?
Reading Silicon.com today, I was struck by a leader article: Insurers must account for disaster recovery, which argues that insurers fail to reward those businesses which take a responsible attitude to data back-up and security. Apparently, when it comes to insuring businesses with multimillion-pound liabilities, insurers often pay little or no regard to where and …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/12/reading_silicon/
Nov 30 2005
Autodesk announces new version of Buzzsaw
Just found a boring news release on PRnewswire announcing new Autodesk Buzzsaw functionality. It's not going to change the UK construction collaboration technology market – just about everything highlighted in the release is already offered by competing solutions from other vendors. The new Buzzsaw functionality focuses on automating business processes, and includes: increased breadth of …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/autodesk_announ/
Nov 28 2005
Hochtief to standardise on BuildOnline
In IT Showcase magazine last week, I saw a news item about BuildOnline and German contractor Hochtief. Maybe it’s just an oversight, but the news isn’t on the English www.buildonline.com website (though it can be found on the French and German versions); I located the text on the Lewis PR site. I note the release …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/hochtief_to_sta-2/
Nov 26 2005
RICS e-tendering guidance note: a review
Just over two weeks ago (11 November), I spoke to the East Midlands branch of the RICS about e-tendering. This is currently something of a hot topic, following the publication of an RICS guidance note in late October and a small flurry of articles about the guidance in magazines such as QS News (I particularly …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/rics_etendering/
Nov 21 2005
Aconex joins NCCTP
Australian-founded Aconex has become the latest construction collaboration technology provider to join the UK trade body, the NCCTP, according to a brief announcement on the latter’s website. The site also now features a short Aconex case study, but it concerns a project undertaken in Australia not in the UK. Given that Aconex has been active …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/aconex_joins_nc/
Nov 21 2005
AEC document management from Version One
Thanks to BuildingTalk, I found a release on Version One, a UK-based document management and imaging software company promoting the utopian ideal of the ‘paperless office’. Its main product appears to be an internal DM solution, but it also offers e-commerce fax, email and funds transfer solutions, and document authorisation. Some AEC suppliers are listed …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/aec_document_ma/
Nov 18 2005
Autodesk ROI research revisited
[Apologies: this is a long-than-usual post] A week after the Construction Computing Show in London, I finally got round to flicking through a copy of Construction Computing magazine that I picked up there. It incorporates an issue of CAD User magazine wherein I saw a now familiar face: Mark Ellis, business manager of Autodesk Collaboration …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2005/11/autodesk_roi_re/