Category: Vendors

Nov 11 2010

HP and Autodesk collaboration – ignores Autodesk’s collaboration products

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
11 November 2010

After last month’s Hewlett Packard event in Copenhagen which saw the launch of its ePrint & Share ‘cloud’ service (post), I have been watching out for further announcements. The latest concerns a new video about an Autodesk plug-in for HP ePrint & Share (the plug-in was demonstrated at HP’s event). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3ZzgSEQJY It’s a polished presentation, …

Autodesk, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Copenhagen, ePrint & Share, Hewlett Packard, HP, marketing, mobile, plug-in, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Nov 06 2010

Incite innovates

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
6 November 2010

Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Incite is developing a lot of new and innovative functionality, and – having grown its business in south-east Asia – is, as I predicted last year, inching towards establishing a presence in Europe. My latest meeting (previous – post) with Michael Baker, Incite’s general manager (technology), included a first encounter …

Aconex, agile, Android, API, application programming interface, Asite, Australia, Bing Maps, Blackberry, buildings, CAD, civil works, cMob, Construction, construction collaboration technology, correspondence, drag-and-drop, drawing register, Drop Zone, email client, Europe, file sharing, Gartner, geo-location, Germany, Google Earth, high-resolution aerial images, highways, Hong Kong, hosting, Incite, Incite Keystone, India, Indonesia, infrastructure, integration, interfaces, iPad, iPhone, JSON, Kalexo Teamwork, Keystone Toolbox, Leighton Holdings, licensing, Malaysia, map data, metadata, Michael Baker, Microsoft, mining, mobile, Nearmap, Nielsen, open-source, OpenStreetMap, Outlook, photographs, PivotViewer, probity, quality, rail, rationalisation, Remix, reporting, RESTful, RIM, SaaS, Scott Crane, Sean Kaye, service level agreements, Silverlight, Site Clean-Up, SmartBuilder, social stream, south-east Asia, Spatial, support, Sword CTSpace, tablet devices, tendering, timeline, UK, users, water supply, Web 2.0, Windows Mobile 7, XML
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Nov 05 2010

A first look at EADOC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 November 2010

I recently did a GoToMeeting session with Eric Law of EADOC to get a clearer understanding of this US-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platform. The system is mainly aimed at construction project teams operating in north America, and has been around since early 2006 (I first wrote about the business in late 2007). It was developed, …

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Nov 01 2010

Business steady at Sword CTSpace?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2010

Monitoring the construction collaboration technology businesses formerly known as Buildonline and Citadon since the combined CTSpace operation was acquired by France-based Sword Group SA in late 2007 (post) is not easy, particularly when companies get merged with other, unrelated operations. From a close reading of various annual reports and some company feedback, I believe the …

Achiever, AEC, Austria, BuildOnline, BuildOnline UK, Citadon, compliance, Construction, CTSpace, Energy, EPP, France, FusionEnterprise, FusionLive, George Britton, Germany, in-house, India, Infotechno, insurance, Intech, Ireland, John Pomeroy, on-demand, onstruction collaboration, profitability, recession, risk management, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sword Group SA, Sword Soft Limited, Sword UK, UNIT4, USA, Utilities

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Oct 28 2010

Live from ICT4Construction conference, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
28 October 2010

The ICT4Construction conference (post), being held today in London, has attracted representatives from several companies regularly covered in this blog. 4Projects is a sponsor (and Clare Watson is due to speak); Sword CTSpace is the opening speaker, followed by MPS, and Union Square will also be talking; and I am sitting behind Yuval Attias and …

4Projects, Acecad, Aconex, Arup, BEM, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Cadweb, Cimage, Citadon, Clare Watson, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration, EliteSuite, FIM, Fusion Enterprise, FusionLive, IBM, ICT4Construction, Jon de Souza, MPS, Nigel Woodridge, Paul Morrell, RedSkyIT, Richard Brotherton, Rob Phillpot, Robin Wilkin, Smarter Planet, Strucad, StruWalker, Stuart Bell, Stuart Farmer, Summit, Sword CTSpace, Union Square, Workspace, Yuval Attias
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Oct 22 2010

Personnel changes, and an iPhone app, at Sword CTSpace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
22 October 2010

When I wrote about the forthcoming ICT4Construction conference (taking place in central London next Thursday, 28 November), I mentioned John Pomeroy was speaking on behalf of construction collaboration technology vendor Sword CTSpace. He isn’t any more, though, as he joined unstructured information software provider MarkLogic as vice president, Europe in August (see news release). John’s …

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Oct 19 2010

Pessimistic Unit4’s revenues down, but profits up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Vendors
19 October 2010

Unit4 Collaboration Software (until February 2010 known as Business Collaborator – post), the UK-based provider of construction collaboration technologies (and other applications) recently filed its annual report and accounts for the year to 31 December 2009 at Companies House. This time last year (post), the company’s directors were not optimistic about their ability to deliver …

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Oct 19 2010

Senubo to launch early 2011

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
19 October 2010

Not strictly a collaboration solution, more an expertise-oriented social network, start-up Senubo is set to launch in early 2011. Yesterday I attended a half-day workshop organised by the Construction Productivity Network focused on how to get the UK construction industry to deliver “more for less” – a topical ambition given that tomorrow the government is …

Carlow, collaboration, Conor Heffernan. Belfast, construction collaboration technologies, Construction Productivity Network, Eddie Horkan, email, foundations, handheld application, ICT, intranets, Ireland, knowledge management, LinkedIn, mobile, piling, Senubo, Social Media, social network, start-up, Terradrive, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis, Yammer

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Oct 14 2010

CAD in the cloud – needs selling on the ground

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
14 October 2010

Software-as-a-Service approaches to design in the AEC market can learn a lot from how SaaS has been deployed to provide construction collaborative platforms since the late 1990s, but the marketing challenges still tend to require more than just an online presence. CAD in the cloud Thanks, once again, to Roopinder Tara’s, CAD CAM CAE TenLinks …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Autodesk, Bernard Charlès, BIMaaS, BIW, CAD, CADaaS, Catia, cloud, construction collaboration, Dassault Systèmes, design, Develop3D.com, Enovia, hosting regime, marketing, Martyn Day, PLM, Roopinder Tara, SaaS, sales, self-service, Software-as-a-Service, SolidWorks, TenLinks Daily, Woobius

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Oct 05 2010

HP ePrint & Share – a follow-up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
5 October 2010

Further to yesterday’s post about HP ePrint & Share, I have now received a response from product manager Iolanda Montserrat (right), so I can shed a little more light on this cloud service’s capabilities. Email notifications – As regular readers will know, I like services which can be managed online without (m)any emails – perhaps …