Tag: legal

Aug 06 2014

No SaaS ‘Safe Harbor’?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Legal, SaaS, Vendors
6 August 2014

Will US-owned vendors of collaboration services be shunned by clients wanting to keep their intellectual property safe from prying US eyes? I recently had an email conversation with someone who was trying to choose between different SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors. His initial focus was on the functionality of the various platforms, but he then began …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Cloud Security Alliance, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, data protection, Edward Snowden, Engineering, EU, legal, Microsoft, NSA, SaaS, Safe Harbor, US, Viewpoint
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Jul 24 2008

Autodesk opens Buzzsaw hosting centre in Hong Kong

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
24 July 2008

Autodesk has just announced the launch of a new Autodesk Buzzsaw data centre in Hong Kong, to support customers of its construction collaboration solution across the Asia Pacific region, having spent three years on the selection process (see news release). The process was facilitated by inward investment agency InvestHK whose Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, …