First Su Butcher tweeted about it, then Construction Enquirer wrote about it, so I had to find out more about the Snag List iPhone app. The app is being developed by James Crowson of London-based app consultancy Creative Grid and construction project manager Scott Eggleton, and is intended to help users quickly and easily create organised lists …
Tag: mobile
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May 18 2012
HP ePrint & Share now on Android
Since attending the Copenhagen launch of HP’s ePrint & Share service in October 2010, I have watched developments with interest, although I have sometimes been under-whelmed by the pace of change (post). The company enabled slightly wider sharing capabilities through Autodesk’s AutoCAD WS tablet/smartphone app in March this year, and the latest news from Washington is of …
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Apr 23 2012
Construction IT events need great topics, and good organisers
The recent cancellation of a London construction IT conference underlines the need not just to find the right subject, but also the right organisers. Two topics in construction IT are currently almost guaranteed to attract good event audiences: building information modelling (BIM) and mobile IT. Winning with BIM The UK government’s strategy to promote BIM …
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Apr 19 2012
Clippings adds company profiles and ‘collaboration’
Two months ago, on my construction PR and marketing blog, I wrote about Clippings.com, a Pinterest-style architectural and interior design scrapbook service (see post). An email today tells me this AEC-oriented social media service (from the same people behind OpenBuildings – post) has diversified to offer a company profiles service and “collaboration”. Clippings will allow …
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Apr 10 2012
Docia: a Red Herring Top 100 finalist
An email arrives from CEO Mads Bording, right, telling me that Copenhagen, Denmark-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Docia is a finalist in Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe awards, a list honouring 2012’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region. Nominees were evaluated on quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology …
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Apr 05 2012
New conject UK website taking shape
The new conject website went live earlier today. As noted on 22 March, the old BIW Technologies company name and associated branding is being superseded by group-wide use of the conject name to cover its SaaS project control and related collaborative solutions across all geographic markets (with the “plan-build-operate” life-cycle very much to the fore). Some …
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Mar 02 2012
HP expands ePrint & Share capabilities … a bit
HP has expanded the printing options available to users of its ePrint & Share service. I wrote about its launch 18 months ago, and its June 2011 strategy update, and, in between, I also wrote about Autodesk’s AutoCAD WS tablet/smartphone app. So it was interesting to see that the latest HP announcement includes an extension …
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Feb 09 2012
Unit4 combining collaboration, ERP and BIM in the cloud
The 2012 Unit4 customer conference this week at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre incorporated the annual user event for users of Unit4 Collaboration (formerly Business Collaborator), and there were some significant announcements both about the structure of that business and about the future roadmap for its collaboration platform. I attended the event wondering how relevant the …
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Jan 24 2012
BIW launch business intelligence module
According to its latest news release, Woking, Surrey, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor, BIW Technologies has launched a new business intelligence (BI) module that it says provides advanced business analysis and reporting capabilities from data across processes, documents, cost and budgets and compliance data/transactions. A second module provides quality, health and safety and environmental …
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