Tag: outsourcing

Aug 03 2010

OpeningDesign.com

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
3 August 2010

Partly through my involvement with Be2camp and partly because of my interests in online collaborative spaces, I was contacted by US-based architect Ryan Shultz of Studio Wikitecture to have a look at a very early, ‘alpha stage’ website concept, OpeningDesign.com. As Ryan candidly admits, this application is still experimental, and is currently a combination of …

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Apr 15 2009

The internet as a lifeline for AEC SMEs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
15 April 2009

(This is a slightly updated version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses potential use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), among other tactics, for managing the impact of the recession upon SMEs in the AEC sector.) Given that most of the businesses active in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors are small or medium-sized …