Blog feed- New Aconex CFOMelbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer, Steve Recht. The news release says Recht has 30 years’ operating and finance experience as a CEO, COO and CFO for venture-backed … Continue reading → […]
- From email to BIMIn the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on … Continue reading → […]
- Viewpoint acquires Construction ImagingViewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and … Continue reading → […]
- A longer look at TrackerPlusIn January, I wrote about London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus online Software-as-a-Service solution to help BRE-licensed BREEAM assessors manage their workload. This week, I visited the company’s Islington offices and met Ben Cartmell to find out more about the … Continue reading → […]
- Docia opens South Africa officeCopenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office … Continue reading → […]
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Category Archives: Vendors
Meeting McLaren, talking SaaS and on-premise
McLaren, now incorporating CTSpace, is building a compelling offer to owner-operators and EPC contractors wanting SaaS or on-premise collaboration, and adding AEC-specific experience to the proposition. Last week I visited the City of London offices of Idox plc to meet … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Aconex, API, Asite, Australia, BIW, Conject, construction collaboration technology, Constructware, CTSpace, document management, e-Builder, EPCs, FusionLive, Idox, McLaren Software, owner-operator, Paul Muir, Richard Kellett-Clarke, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, Tim Taylor, UK, Unit4 Collaboration, US
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Docia: a Red Herring Top 100 finalist
An email arrives from CEO Mads Bording, right, telling me that Copenhagen, Denmark-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Docia is a finalist in Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe awards, a list honouring 2012’s most promising private technology ventures from the European … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Mobile, Vendors, Web 2.0
Tagged AMEE, Be2camp, construction collaboration technology, Docia, Hailo, Layar, marketing, mobile, PeerIndex, PR, Red Herring, SaaS, Skydox, Social Media, Web 2.0, Zoopla
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iSite boosted by Styles & Wood cross-selling
Results from UK retail fit-out specialist contracting group Styles & Wood received a boost from projects for retail banks, and its SaaS property management solutions subsidiary, iSite, also seems to have benefited. Yesterday’s results announcement highlighted “expansion of our iSite property management … Continue reading
Asite opens US offices
The expansion of once UK-focused SaaS construction collaboration providers into the US market continues. Asite has just announced it is opening an East Coast office in New York, and a West Coast office in San Francisco, continuing what Tony Ryan, … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Aconex, AEC, architecture, Asite, Australia, BIW, BIW Technologies, Conject, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, McLaren Software, Nathan Doughty, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Tony Ryan, US
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CTSpace disappears
According to Idox group company McLaren Software, ”the merger with CTSpace is now complete.” As described in November 2011, following the business’s acquisition from Sword (post), the CTSpace name was set to disappear, and now – sure enough – if you point … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged BuildOnline, Cimage, Citadon CW, CTSpace, FusionLive, Idox, McLaren Software, Software-as-a-Service, Sword group, UK, US
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Bye-bye, BIW. Hello, conject
I visited the Woking office of SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies recently and there was a very tangible sign (literally! – right) of an impending change. As anticipated 15 months ago when Munich, Germany-based conject acquired BIW, the UK … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, architecture, BIW, BIW Technologies, branding, Colin Smith, Commercial Management, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, contract change management, EarlyBird Venture Capital, Engineering, FM, marketing, project control, SaaS, Seventure, Software-as-a-Service, Steve Cooper
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Mace adopts BIW Commercial Management
Woking, Surrey, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies has re-launched its Commercial Management application (formerly BIW Financial Control), with Mace one of the first major construction businesses deploying the module (see news release). Essentially, BIW Commercial Management supports … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged BIW, BIW Technologies, Bovis Lend Lease, collaboration, Commercial Management, construction collaboration technology, Crawford Patterson, Mace, project financial control, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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NEC3 partnership by Sypro and UNIT4
UNIT4 Business Software’s SaaS construction document collaboration solution Business Collaborator is being teamed up with Sypro Management’s NEC3 management platform, the two companies have announced today. The launch of the partnership has been timed to coincide with the annual NEC … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Aconex, AEC, architecture, Asite, BIW, Business Collaborator, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Docia, Engineering, MPS, NEC3, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sypro Management, UK, Unit4 Collaboration
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Open BIM, 4BIM … and potential ‘BIM-wash’
A London conference on building information modelling (BIM) on Wednesday, organised jointly by Constructing Excellence and the Construction Products Association, featured two announcements. Open BIM First, we heard that BuildingSMART International, various Nemetschek companies, Tekla, Solibri, and other major construction … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, AEC3, architecture, Asite, Autodesk, Bentley ProjectWise, BIM, BIM Academy, BIM wash, BIM360, BIM4, BuildingSMART, Buzzsaw, cBIM, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, London, Nick Nisbet, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK, Vinci
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