Tag: Software-as-a-Service

Sep 24 2012

HP SaaS drawing storage set to expand (and integrate?)

Reprographic hardware corporation HP launched its SaaS-based cloud storage service, ePrint & Share nearly two years ago (post), and has continued to market itself to UK users ever since (I wrote about its Android app launch in May 2012). I was invited to a launch event at the RIBA in London today (24 September), where it announced: “the …

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Sep 20 2012

Aconex extends mobile offering to iPad

I’ve mentioned its imminent launch a couple of times recently but now it’s official: Aconox Mobile for iPad. The Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS collaboration vendor Aconex launched an iPhone app in May last year (post), and has now expanded its portfolio to include an iPad app (already winner of the 2012 Australian Mobile Award for Project Management), …

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Sep 19 2012

Conject trading update, and a new blog

The latest conject e-newsletter hit my in-box yesterday, including news of the final post-acquisition transition of the SaaS collaboration vendor from BIW Technologies to conject branding (mentioned yesterday), its nominations in the Be2Awards (post) and Construction Computing Awards (post), and its sponsorship of Constructing Excellence‘s Awards. Trading update The e-newsletter also talks about recent trading, …

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Sep 17 2012

Collaboration vendors invite votes, and Eneo pitches in

With London Social Media Week fast approaching, I worked late one night last week sorting out the crowd-sourced nominations for the second running of the Be2Awards, which are being held at London’s Building Centre on the afternoon Wednesday 26 September (register here). As with the first running of the Awards last year, the winners are …

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Aug 28 2012

TeamBinder selected for $8.5bn Sydney mega-project

Artist's impression of North West Rail Link

Extranet Evolution rarely reports project wins by construction collaboration technology vendors but the scale of QA Software’s latest TeamBinder project probably justifies this exception. The application from the North Melbourne, Australia-based vendor has been selected to manage document collaboration on Sydney’s $8.5 billion (c. £5.6bn) North West Rail Link. The project’s first stage is scheduled for completion …

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Aug 27 2012

Project Collaboration launches 4Projects in Australia

projectCollaboration website

Through an email in early May, I got news from Australia featuring a familiar UK name in construction collaboration technology: 4Projects. Milton Walters, formerly at Aconex and general manager of TeamBinder at QA Software, has formed his own Melbourne-based company, Project Collaboration, to sell the 4Projects solution in the Australasian market. Colleagues pre-sales director Josh King and …

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Aug 17 2012

Newforma now embraces cloud

Newforma-logo

US-based vendor Newforma has done a U-turn on its attitude to SaaS construction collaboration. Some six years ago (June 2006), I wrote my first Extranet Evolution blog post about Newforma Project Center after reading some provocative statements about the merits of cloud-based construction collaboration solutions from Newforma executives Bob Batcheler and Ian Howell. Former mindset …

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Aug 07 2012

Xpin offers new interface ideas

Last week I met Matthew Jennings, business development director, and online director Richard Hulbert of London-based digital agency Code Vanilla, which has developed a cloud-based collaboration platform called Xpin (described here). Following an introduction via Su Butcher, Matthew had asked for feedback on the Beta release of Xpin and whether it might be of interest to architects. Explaining Xpin …

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Jul 30 2012

From Asite to Adoddle

London-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has a completely new website and has also renamed its platform Adoddle. A hand-drawn cartoon character resembling (to me) a cross between a light-bulb and a rocket is used to personify and represent the offering (previously branded simply Asite). ‘Addodle’ is shown beating the ‘chaos monster’, and, in …

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Jul 25 2012

How Does Project Management Work?

As a marketeer and social media enthusiast, I like this simple short video from  Collabor8online, a UK-based vendor of low-cost construction collaboration technology,  shared on the company’s blog and via YouTube. CEO Colin Barnes told me last year how keen he was to use social media to help market the company’s platform.

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