Blog feed- New Aconex CFOMelbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer, Steve Recht. The news release says Recht has 30 years’ operating and finance experience as a CEO, COO and CFO for venture-backed … Continue reading → […]
- From email to BIMIn the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on … Continue reading → […]
- Viewpoint acquires Construction ImagingViewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and … Continue reading → […]
- A longer look at TrackerPlusIn January, I wrote about London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus online Software-as-a-Service solution to help BRE-licensed BREEAM assessors manage their workload. This week, I visited the company’s Islington offices and met Ben Cartmell to find out more about the … Continue reading → […]
- Docia opens South Africa officeCopenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office … Continue reading → […]
- New Aconex CFO
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- ExtraEvolution: RT @Aconex: Aconex names Steve Recht as #CFO http://t.co/C18Lqkf2 #AEC #construction #collaboration ^CP
- ExtraEvolution: Hearing @4ProjectsNews has Australian partner http://t.co/QJW4eAih. Will blog on this soon....
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Tag Archives: construction collaboration
ProjectCentre.net and its “anti-email” approach
Some people love email, others hate it; most us, I suspect, are somewhere in the middle, perhaps wearily accepting its necessity, but wishing they got less of it. And yet we often work with applications that add to our email … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
Tagged Aconex, architecture, Australia, BIW, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration, contract administration, email, Engineering, marketing, mining, Paul Hemmings, Projectcentre.net, SaaS, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, Tony Clare, UK, Web 2.0
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Explorer acquires two Australian businesses
Vancouver, Canada-based Explorer Software has acquired two more construction software firms, both based in Australia: Adelaide-based CSSP and Adelaide/Sydney-based Kensington Computer Services (KCS), a CSSP reseller. Back in 2007, I blogged about Explorer’s acquisition of UK construction accounting software vendor … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
Tagged accounting software, Adelaide, Australia, Canada, Construction, construction collaboration, CSSP, document imaging, Explorer ezDocs, Explorer Software, Jim McFarlane, Kensington Computer Services, Marc Hemmet, Mike Aspinwall, Ramesys, RedSky IT, Sydney, UK, Vancouver
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Vaulting your documents
Writing last week about the London launch of the RICS report on cloud computing and commercial property, I mentioned secure offsite file storage provider Vaultium, and – surely no coincidence – I have since been emailed about another UK-based “vault” … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, architecture, archive, BackUpVault, Box.net, cloud computing, collaboration, commercial property, construction collaboration, data protection, drop.io, encryption, Engineering, EU, facilities management, file sharing, file storage, folders, large file handling, legal jurisdiction, mark-up, property, RICS, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, The Bunker, UK, US, Vaultium
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Asite does enterprise deal with Canary Wharf Contractors
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 … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, architecture, Asite, BIW Technologies, Canary Wharf Contractors, cloud-based services, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration, corporate identity, CWC, Engineering, Environment Agency, financial institutions, Health for Scotland, licensing, London, marketing, multi-tenancy, per-project, per-user, PR, pure Software as a Service model, pwcom.co.uk Ltd, SaaS, self-service, Tony Ryan, Transport for London, Twitter
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Asite – steady
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 … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Vendors
Tagged AIM, Asite, Construction, construction collaboration, enterprise deals, profit, recession, revenues, SaaS, UK
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Should we be teaching document control or collaboration?
Aconex is delivering document control training, but the technology aspect of collaboration is only occasionally covered. As a PR and marketing professional in the construction IT sector, I keep my eyes open for new ways in which businesses are promoting … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, awarding organisation, BIM, BIW, BRE, CELL, Centre for Infrastructure Development, certificate, CITA, collaboration and integration in construction, Collaborative Working Academy, common processes and tools, Constru cting Excellence, construction collaboration, construction IT, Construction IT Alliance, CWA, Dale Carnegie, document control, Don Ward, email, Eversheds, extranets, G4C, Ireland, ISO standards, lean construction, Manchester Business School, marketing, NCCTP, Nuno Gil, Ofqual, open book cost management, PR, project records management, risk management, SaaS, training, Yuval Attias
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Risk reduction or scare-mongering?
New guidance from Wren Insurance on “cloud technology” seems pessimistic and even outdated. In this post, I take a detailed look at how construction collaboration technology vendors have, since 2000, responded to similar objections. Legal issues of collaboration In 2004, … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Legal, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, architects, archives, back-up, bandwidth, BIW, Cadweb, CIN, Colin Smith, conditions of appointment, construction collaboration, Construction Digital, contention ratio, contingency, CRM, data export, Data Protection Act, data security, David Whitton, email, End User Licence Agreement, finances, fire-walls, FUD, HR, information management security, insurance, internet connection, invoicing, ISO/IEC27001, ITIL, legal admissibility, logins, Loughborough University, Master Licence Agreement, Nottingham Trent University, passwords, PR, professional indemnity insurance, SaaS, Service Level Agreement, SLA, software escrow agreements, Software-as-a-Service, UK, virus-checking, web conferencing, Wren Insurance
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First StoreData, then iSite, now S&W Intelligence
The UK-based collaboration technology subsidiary of property services firm Styles & Wood is set to take on its third brand-name in under a year, reports Building. Previously known as StoreData, the business (a reseller of Union Square’s Workspace platform, with … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors
Tagged banking, Building, construction collaboration, Intelligence, iSite, retail, S&W, StoreCare, StoreData, StoreFit, StorePlanning, Styles & Wood, UK, Union Square, Workspace
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HP and Autodesk collaboration – ignores Autodesk’s collaboration products
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 … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Autodesk, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Copenhagen, ePrint & Share, Hewlett Packard, HP, marketing, mobile, plug-in, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service
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