Apr 13 2011
In August 2010 (news release), Autodesk released AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS, a mobile application aimed at users of Apple-based iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices (since downloaded over one million times). Autodesk’s reach out to mobile users is set to grow still further with the release later this month (20 April) of AutoCAD …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/04/autocad-ws-for-android/
Apr 08 2011
At the generous invitation of Sypro, I will be attending Monday’s annual NEC User Group conference, held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London. It promises to be an interesting event, with a keynote from the UK government’s chief construction advisor Paul Morrell, plus presentations and case studies on use of the NEC contract …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/04/nec-in-the-spotlight-on-monday/
Apr 05 2011
Unlike 4Projects which last month seemingly suspended its blog and Twitter presence, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex looks to be about to launch a more committed Web 2.0 presence. It has created a new blog site, Blog Central, as: “a single spot for sharing the latest news on Aconex technology, products, customers, and …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/04/aconex-blog-central/
Mar 31 2011
During my presentation at Friday’s ICT4Contruction event (post), I briefly mentioned 4Projects as an example of a construction collaboration technology vendor that had started to use social media, with a blog, TheSaaSHandbook.com, and an associated Twitter account. However, the blog has disappeared (visitors are now simply channelled to 4Projects’ home page), while the Twitter account …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/03/p45s-at-4projects/
Mar 29 2011
Rant alert! As regular readers may know, I was (I think, constructively) critical of the first ICT4Construction event last October, and as a result of my feedback organiser Recep Saffet asked if I would chair the next edition, on knowledge and document management. After some deliberation, I agreed, and also helped publicise the event through …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/03/ict4construction-a-post-mortem/
Mar 22 2011
Judging from the recent activities of some of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors, there seems to be a fair bit of (mainly London-based) training going on at the moment: 4Projects recently announced (14 March) a “new programme of training sessions designed specifically to help our users get the most from our 4Projects collaborative functionality” …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/03/training-in-collaborative-it/
Mar 21 2011
Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex will be launching its first iPhone application next month (April 2011). A short note on its support page about release 10.2, says: Coming Soon – Aconex Mobile Now Aconex goes everywhere you go. We’re pleased to announce the launch of Aconex Mobile (for iPhone®) in April. Very soon …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/03/aconex-to-launch-iphone-app-in-april/
Mar 07 2011
The latest Sword-CTSpace news release concerns an integration between the company’s on-premise FusionEnterprise platform and ECM systems EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint 10 (somewhat confusingly, Sword-CTSpace talks about Engineering Content Management, as opposed to Enterprise Content Management, a term much used by other firms and industry analysts). I only mention this as the news release …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/03/who-sits-at-the-sword-ctspace-table/
Feb 28 2011
Online management of NEC contract processes features prominently on the agenda of next month’s document and knowledge management conference in London (which I am chairing – post), with SaaS vendors 4Projects and Sypro both listed as talking about contract administration. The event is timely too, insofar as it comes just weeks after NEC publisher Thomas …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/02/another-nec3-saas-application-cmtoolkit/
Feb 26 2011
Just over a year ago, I spent a couple of hours talking to Steve Nelson, the then Chief Financial Officer of Sunderland, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects (see 4Projects and Profitability). In recent months, there has been some change in the 4Projects boardroom, with Steve moving into a non-executive role and Chris Baty …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/02/4projects-revenues-down-but-profits-up/
nima’s That Information Management podcast
