Jan 15 2013
I had a demonstration of iExtranet, a competitively-priced SaaS building and construction solution from Paris-based cloud storage company oodrive.com, this morning. The company mainly provides back-up services and online file-sharing solutions, and the iExtranet platform, which also has a variant for use by businesses in the advertising market, is used by some well-known international contracting organisations …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2013/01/iextranet-from-paris-based-oodrive/
Sep 18 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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/09/asite-heads-list-of-collaboration-vendors-vying-for-construction-computing-awards-2012/
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/
Dec 13 2011
It’s been a while – 15 months – since I talked about Corecon, the California-based provider of web-based construction software, and more than 18 months since it launched its flagship product Corecon V7. Until V7, Corecon had been mainly focused on business process support (estimating, contract administration, procurement, financial reporting, correspondence, scheduling, etc) rather than …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/12/corecon-teamlink-portal-creates-new-extranet-player-and-low-cost-too/
Sep 19 2011
More US repro tie-ups for Asite London-based software-as-a-service construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has just announced a relationships with three more reprographic service providers in the United States. Following its earlier tie-up with the ReproMAX marketing network (see post), it is now reaching out to AEC professionals via LINK Document Services Group, Thomas Reprographics and NRI (the …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/09/five-pr-updates-from-uk-aec-collaboration-vendors/
Jul 13 2011
I watched and listened to a Building Design webinar today on building information modelling (BIM). Hosted by Robert Klaschka of Studio Klaschka Architects (he and I shared a platform at a London Constructing Excellence event in May), it included a question and answer session with UK government chief construction advisor Paul Morrell, and short presentations …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/07/will-bim-kill-the-document-controller/
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/
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Mar 25 2010
Union Square Software and its Workspace product haven’t featured very often in this blog, partly because my main focus is on Software-as-a-Service applications for the construction sector, and Workspace tends to be hosted in its customers’ premises, with extranet-type functionality available as an option alongside its core intranet and email management capabilities. However, it’s worth …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/03/union-square-adds-project-accounting-option-to-workspace/
Oct 29 2009
In early 2007, I wrote about BT Workspace, a Software-as-a-Service that the UK telecoms giant was offering to small and medium-sized businesses. Built on a modified version of the Microsoft SharePoint platform by US company SMBLive, BT Worskspace offered extranet-type project workplaces at a competitive price (£7.50 per company user per month; free for micro-teams …
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