Is it the beginning of the end for the 4Projects brand? UK CEO Richard Vertigan steps down, and the US SaaS collaboration product is launched under the Viewpoint branding. Sunderland, UK-based SaaS collaboration vendor 4Projects, acquired by US construction ERP specialist Viewpoint in February, appears to be going through some significant changes. From my UK …
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Jul 25 2013
Asite updates Adoddle
Almost exactly a year after it rebranded its core product, London-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider Asite this week announced availability of its summer release, Adoddle 16, which – according to the news release – includes some “hot new features”: Smartphone and tablet users can now directly check whether a printed (paper) drawing is the latest revision …
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Mar 21 2013
Unit4 BC: future is BIM and linked data
SaaS platform Business Collaborator is a key component in Unit4’s strategy to integrate its business software with BIM, using linked data to manage asset-related processes. I attended the Unit4 user 2013 user conference at the ICC in Birmingham last week, ostensibly to join the sessions devoted to its SaaS collaboration solution Business Collaborator, but – …
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Mar 11 2013
UNIT4 Business Software launches Business Collaborator 6.1
UNIT4 Business Software has today announced the launch of UNIT4 Business Collaborator (BC) 6.1, its web-based project collaboration software solution. Key enhancements include: a public API enabling the secure integration of third party software provision of QR codes (for drawing version control, and for asset management) the ability to link to different file types quickly and easily, …
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Feb 21 2013
Unit4 growing its SaaS revenues, as BC6.1 approaches launch
Today saw the Netherlands-based Unit4 business software group publish its financial results for the year ended 31 December 2012. Its core business is focused on ERP and related financial tools, but its software portfolio also includes the UK-based Business Collaborator SaaS construction document collaboration and workflow business which ceased to exist as a separate unit just …
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Feb 07 2013
Reflections on the 4Projects acquisition
Having had a couple of days to research and reflect on yesterdays’s announcement of Viewpoint’s acquisition of 4Projects (post) and to discuss it with industry friends, I thought I’d try to sum up a few strands. Deal background While Viewpoint CEO Jay Haladay was somewhat coy about the the funding and terms of the deal …
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Feb 06 2013
UK exclusive: 4Projects acquired by US ERP vendor ViewPoint
Sunderland, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects has been acquired (for an undisclosed amount) by Portland, Oregon-based financial systems vendor Viewpoint Construction Software. Almost exactly a year after I talked to Viewpoint executives about their aspirations for the US enterprise resource planning software company (see ERP vendor Viewpoint viewing collaboration space), the 4Projects acquisition was announced to …
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Sep 18 2012
Asite heads list of collaboration vendors vying for Construction Computing Awards 2012
The shortlists for the 2012 Construction Computing Awards have been published, and reveal many familiar names vying for “Hammers” across equally familiar ranges of sometimes overlapping categories. Voting for the awards is now open (and will remain open until 8 November), the winners will be announced at a London event on 22 November, and London-based …
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Mar 19 2012
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 User Group conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London. The ‘fit’ is straightforward. …
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Feb 28 2012
UNIT4 in UK Gov Cloudstore coup
A week ago, the UK Government launched Cloudstore, a new ‘app store’ to help small businesses offer IT services to the public sector, and to encourage public organisations to purchase services on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis, rather than being locked into lengthy contracts (see BBC news article). The site features over 1,700 apps provided by more than …
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