In the biggest deal yet seen in the construction SaaS market, the Melbourne, Australia-based collaboration technology provider Aconex has acquired Munich, Germany-based rival Conject for A$96m (c. €65m or £51m or US$73.3m). Aconex announced the agreement to acquire Conject Holding GmbH earlier today, along with its intention to launch a fully underwritten placement to raise approximately A$120m …
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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2016/03/aconex-acquires-conject/
Aug 19 2015
Conject eyeing cost control future
With electronic document management increasingly commoditised, Anglo-German SaaS construction collaboration specialist Conject believes the future will increasingly be about how businesses manage cost and programme information. In just about every part of the supply chain, differentiation has always been difficult in the hugely fragmented architecture, engineering and construction collaboration sector, and it is no different …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2015/08/conject-eyeing-cost-control-future/
May 21 2015
Goodbye, 4Projects. Hello, Viewpoint for Projects
This week’s 2015 Viewpoint customer summit conference in London drew over 100 people, all provided with an update to the company’s product development roadmap outlined in Newcastle last May (4Projects: the future is cloud-based everything). One headline announcement has been confirmation of the rebranding of 4Projects; with effect from September 2015, the SaaS construction collaboration application will be …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2015/05/goodbye-4projects-hello-viewpoint-for-projects/
Nov 25 2009
SaaS to grow (again)
The Construction Software State of the Industry Report, produced by US-based firm Software Advice, is highlighting five trends (three of them upwards), relating to software buying habits, and suggests that the current recession makes Software-as-a-Service-based solutions even more attractive: Software as a Service is in the right place at the right time Software as a …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/saas-to-grow-again/
Jul 10 2009
Collaboration vendors unveil (old) plans for deeper interoperability
Last month, members of the UK-based Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) announced plans to provide greater integration between their different applications (see news release). At the time, I was too busy to write about it, but the topic cropped up briefly in conversation with the Incite guys (post) recently, so I’ve had another …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/07/collaboration-vendors-unveil-old-plans-for-deeper-interoperability/
May 08 2008
Cadweb tries to catch-up
The latest news release from UK construction collaboration technology vendor Cadweb – who describe themselves as “the longest and oldest, established project extranet provider in the UK” [just how long is Cadweb?] – shows that Cadweb has finally woken up to functional advances made by most of its UK competitors several years ago. Cadweb says it plans to add several …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/05/cadweb-tries-1/
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