Dec 30 2013
Aconex reports growing revenues, but expansion increases losses for year to June 2013. Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex reported revenues up 18% in the year ending 30 June 2013. The business, now increasingly establishing itself in the USA, grew from Au$44.3m in 2012 to global revenues of Au$52.6m (£28.4m or US$46.8m). The company’s EBITDA showed a loss of Au$8.89m (c. £4.8m or US$7.9m) compared …
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Dec 13 2013
Social media has become a convenient route for new (and not so new) start-ups to target bloggers like me or for me to hear about IT vendors targeting architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) of which I was previously unaware. For example…. Matt Schaefer of Chicago, US-based StratusVue contacted me via LinkedIn through Twitter, I learned that …
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Nov 20 2013
In May 2012, I had a long look at Islington, London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus application. This is used to streamline the BREEAM environmental assessment process for members of the design team and allows assessors to submit their assessments directly from the system to BREEAM for quality assurance (QA) and certification. I met with …
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Nov 06 2013
Could AEC SaaS collaboration vendors deliver zero-wait web experiences to their end customers on any device and over any type of network? Last week at Bentley Systems‘ Year in Infrastructure conference in London (see previous posts), I listened to a couple of case studies about the use of its collaboration suite ProjectWise – for example, …
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Nov 04 2013
The apparent transition of Australian-founded Aconex into an American corporation took another step last week with the announcement that experienced US SaaS executive Blaine Mathieu had been appointed as chief marketing officer of the SaaS project collaboration vendor. According to the news release, Mathieu brings more than 25 years of management experience in marketing, product management, …
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Oct 30 2013
A US survey suggests growing benefits of mobile information, but its respondents weren’t enthusing about mobile access to digital models. At the Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference in London this week, information mobility has been a recurring theme (indeed, BIM has even been verbally re-engineered to become ‘better information mobility’), and its not just about …
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Oct 19 2013
Some months ago, a structural engineer friend James Burt alerted me to FieldLens, and we had a long chat about this and related applications before the London launch of BIM4SMEs in April. FieldLens is the work of a New York based development team led by CEO Doug Chambers. It aims to put construction collaboration on …
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Oct 18 2013
Asite grows revenues by a quarter and profits by a fifth in the year to June 2013. London-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Asite has announced it grew its revenues 25.6% in the financial year to 30 June 2013, from £3.193m in 2012 to £4.011m, publishing its latest report and accounts (PDF; news release) yesterday. The black line in the …
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Oct 11 2013
Mobile development no longer just focuses on particular processes. Two firms seek to offer complete construction collaboration capability built from the ground-up for mobile devices. I received an email today from Don Speedie of Nevada, US-based FluidCM.com,* who wanted to tell me more about Fluid Contract Manager, a mobile construction management application which is due …
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Sep 30 2013
Steve Spark is keen to get the 4Projects MD role permanently, and has some of the key credentials Viewpoint is looking for. In the fortnight since announcements of changes at UK SaaS construction collaboration vendor 4Projects, I’ve had chance to talk to US parent Viewpoint‘s senior vice-president and general manager of 4Projects, Matt Harris and to …
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