Dec 23 2010
Asite seeks to differentiate its collaboration offering through its own definition of ‘pure SaaS’. According to a news release earlier this week, London-based construction collaboration vendor Asite has signed a five-year enterprise deal to provide its SaaS platform to support Canary Wharf Contractors’ projects. I don’t normally write about new deals, but there were a …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/asite-does-enterprise-deal-with-canary-wharf-contractors/
Dec 21 2010
Asite’s latest trading announcement talks growth but the recession is hitting SaaS vendors’ project-based collaboration revenues. Amid the flurry of discussion about BIW’s acquisition by Conject (post) and the NEC3 announcement regarding 4Projects and BIW (post), I almost overlooked a news release from rival UK SaaS construction collaboration vendor Asite concerning its trading performance for …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/asite-steady/
Dec 14 2010
Formed in 2007, Sypro is another SaaS player targeting the construction contract management market. Sometimes even just the simple step of following someone on Twitter can bring you some attention. Recently, I got a new follower using the Twitter handle @SyproNEC, representing Sypro Management Ltd, an East Yorkshire, UK-based company specialising in web-based collaboration software …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/sypro-management/
Dec 04 2010
One of those interesting coincidences…. Yesterday, the Institution of Civil Engineers, with the Advanced Institute of Management, hosted an event, “Engineering Management in a Digital Economy” in London which, despite the wintry weather and the associated transport difficulties, still drew around 40 people from both industry and academia. They assembled to discuss issues such as …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/design-by-many/
Dec 01 2010
Asite, SaaS North America and ReproMAX sign Strategic Relationship A 30 November 2010 release from Asite, says US-based reprographics firm ReproMAX has signed a “major contract” with Asite’s distributor in North America (SaaS North America) to supply and host its “web-based collaborative Software as a Service (cSaaS)”. Let’s just dissect the announcement a little bit…. …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/two-recent-uk-vendor-news-releases/
Dec 01 2010
Over the past year or so, I’ve talked several times about iPhone applications and collaboration in the architecture, engineering and construction, AEC, space. I have seen prototype stand-alone products developed purely for the iPhone (eg: Smartbuilder – post), but most tools have been developed by existing construction collaboration technology providers and extend their platforms to …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/builditlivecom-targets-ipad-collaborators/
Nov 26 2010
After attending and live-blogging from the first of Recep Saffet’s series of ICT4Construction conferences last month (post), he has invited me to be one of the speakers at his next event, on document and knowledge management technology, at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London on 25 March 2011 (just over a month later than previously noted). …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/11/ict4construction-conference-march-2011-on-document-and-knowledge-management/
Nov 06 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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/11/incite-innovates/
Oct 19 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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/10/pessimistic-unit4s-revenues-down-but-profits-up/
Sep 16 2010
Voting for the 2010 Construction Computing Awards has opened, with 20 of the 24 categories to be decided by online votes, and four to be decided by a panel of judges – something of a departure from previous years’ practice. Of course, you’ve got to be in it to win it, and there are some …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/09/construction-computing-awards-2010-voting-begins/
nima’s That Information Management podcast
