Mar 10 2015
The Beta launch of a new SaaS-based manufacturing CAD application, OnShape, has excited a few bloggers and tweeters recently, although the concept is nothing new (I recall US CAD writer Brian Seitz wondering Is SaaS the Killer App for the CAD Industry? in 2008, and it stimulated some CADaaS posts from me – first, second – and later some …
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Mar 06 2015
Once again, it’s not just about technology, it’s people and processes – behaviours – that support successful collaboration. I have been involved with, and enthusiastic about, Constructing Excellence almost since its foundation and have been a CE collaborative working champion for about 10 years. CE is, I think, the only pan-industry membership body in the UK …
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Mar 03 2015
Last week saw the “launch” of Digital Built Britain, the preferred branding for the UK’s Level 3 Building Information Modelling (BIM) programme. The work is apparently intended to “build on the standards and savings delivered by the BIM level 2 initiative which has been central to the £840M savings achieved on central public spend in …
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Mar 02 2015
Chris Parsons, CEO and founder of US-based Knowledge Architecture, provider of AEC intranet solutions and organiser of the annual US conference, KA Connect (post) – 2015’s is in San Francisco in May – is running a knowledge management survey. He writes: We believe this survey is the first of its kind and is the logical next …
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Feb 20 2015
Aconex, which listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in December, has just reported results for the half-year to 30 December 2014. The Melbourne-based SaaS collaboration software business saw total revenues climb 19%, ahead of forecasts, to Au$38.1m (£19.4m or US$29.8m). The company was also ahead of break-even, reporting a Au$0.5m EBITDA, again ahead of its …
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Feb 17 2015
McLaren Software, the engineering information management (EIM) division of Berkshire, UK-based Idox plc, had a fairly flat financial performance in the year to 31 October 2014, according to Idox’s annual report and accounts published last month. McLaren’s EIM division is best-known in this blog as the provider of FusionLive (formerly CTSpace and, before that, BuildOnline – among …
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Feb 16 2015
Delivering BIM in the browser is now part of think project!‘s technology roadmap and it is on track to start its first BIM project in early 2015. Late last year, I had a long conversation with two executives from Munich, Germany’s think project! about its plans to augment its existing Software-as-a-Service collaboration capabilities with building …
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Feb 12 2015
think project!, the Munich, Germany-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology provider has announced the release of a new ‘WebApp’ interface, optimised – using HTML5 – for smartphones. According to the company, the new interface supports fingertip navigation by users on their smartphones. For example, planning, documentation and defect management processes can be initiated, edited and tracked via …
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Feb 11 2015
GenieBelt, the Copenhagen, Denmark-based provider of a free SaaS construction collaboration platform (launched in November 2014), today announced a new angel round led by European angel investor and former CEO of Just Eat, Klaus Nyengaard. Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp, also contributed to the €700,000 funding round. GenieBelt says it will use the angel funding round …
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Jan 22 2015
According to the BIMcrunch blog, Australian construction collaboration company Aconex intends to create more building information modelling (BIM) software plug-ins. The full interview with CEO Leigh Jasper will feature on BIMcrunch soon. Having previously released an Autodesk Revit plugin in early 2013, and then launched its Connected BIM capability in October 2014 (made available free in December 2014), the …
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