Aug 29 2014
Webforum’s characteristic clean Swedish design interfaces to rich functionality that may interest larger SMEs managing staff across multiple projects. At a COMIT (Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT) community day earlier this summer, I met Colin Payne of Sweden’s Webforum and we subsequently met up so that he could show me the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. While it is not a construction-focused collaboration …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/08/webforum-enters-uk-aec-market/
Jun 17 2013
I enjoyed a chat with Colin Barnes, CEO of Manchester, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Collabor8online, recently. His business launched in late 2009 (post) and is pitched at the competitive, small-to-medium sized business (SME), low-cost end of the construction collaboration market (post), but that hasn’t stopped him developing features emulating some of the more sophisticated …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2013/06/simple-collaboration-still-competitive/
Jul 30 2012
London-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has a completely new website and has also renamed its platform Adoddle. A hand-drawn cartoon character resembling (to me) a cross between a light-bulb and a rocket is used to personify and represent the offering (previously branded simply Asite). ‘Addodle’ is shown beating the ‘chaos monster’, and, in …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/07/from-asite-to-adoddle/
Jul 25 2012
As a marketeer and social media enthusiast, I like this simple short video from Collabor8online, a UK-based vendor of low-cost construction collaboration technology, shared on the company’s blog and via YouTube. CEO Colin Barnes told me last year how keen he was to use social media to help market the company’s platform.
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/07/how-does-project-management-work/
Jan 06 2012
Two emails arrived overnight: one from a generic collaboration provider and one from a small construction micro-business looking for a low-cost SaaS-based project delivery solution that could be used to manage numerous small domestic projects and support all the back-office, contact management, time-sheet and project accounting needs of the business. As I read this second …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/01/simple-aec-collaboration-plus-administration/
May 13 2011
I talked recently with Colin Barnes, CEO of Collabor8online, a provider of low-cost construction collaboration technology that I first wrote about 18 months ago (post), and just over a year since I last spoke to him (post). The conversation was prompted by some tweets about the business’s new website and about a new version of …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/05/collabor8online-upd8s/
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/03/top-10-construction-it-trends/
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/02/collabor8online-talking-low-cost-collaboration/
Jan 05 2010
I use Box.net as an online file back-up and storage solution, and chanced upon a blog post by Box.net’s senior business development manager Matt Soldo talking about a new reseller relationship with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, who produce ruggedised tablet PCs. Positioning itself as “Your plan room in the cloud” (a familiar US refrain), Box.net …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/01/boxnet-and-motion-computing-target-construction/
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/collabor8-online/
nima’s That Information Management podcast
Feb 01 2010
Collabor8online: talking low-cost collaboration
1 February 2010
I had a long telephone chat on Friday with Colin Barnes, founder of Collabor8online (see post), a little over two months since the construction collaboration solution’s UK launch. Colin explained that Collabor8online was very much targeted at the SME end of the market. “Recognising that for many businesses email is too messy and difficult to …
Continue reading
Share this: