Tag Archive: widgets

Aug 01 2011

4Projects promoting NEC3 Manager

Categories:

AEC, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors

by Paul Wilkinson

1 August 2011

4Projects NEC3 Manager may not (yet) have a highly-polished dashboard, but its NEC backing is helping push this young product forward. On Friday morning I attended a breakfast briefing in central London by software-as-a-service construction collaboration vendor 4Projects who were showing off their NEC3 Manager product to some prospective customers, plus a representative from the …

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Tags: 4Projects, AEC, architecture, BIW, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, London, marketing, NEC3, NEC3 Licensed Content, Robert McAlpine, Software-as-a-Service, Sypro Management, widgets

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/08/4projects-promoting-nec3-manager/

Nov 30 2009

Rob Phillpot on Aconex, APIs and acquisitions

Categories:

AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors

by Paul Wilkinson

30 November 2009

Following my recent posts on Aconex‘s API announcement and its 2009 financial results, I spent 40 minutes quizzing Rob Phillpot, company co-founder and General Manager, Product, about planned developments of the Aconex construction collaboration system. It was a fascinating insight into the thinking behind the world’s most widely used SaaS collaboration platform. I was particularly …

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Tags: Aconex, acquisition, API, Application Programming Interfaces, Asite, asset lifecycle, asset lifecycle support, audit trail, BIM, BIW, broadband, bug fixes, building commissioning processes, building information modelling, chat, conference calling, conferencing, construction collaboration, contract administration, cost control, Dubai, email, enhancements, file sharing, financial results, Francisco Partners, Google Wave, hand-over, heart valve, JCT, Kalexo, Martin Hosking, member forums, mobile apps, multi-media, NEC, online tendering, operation and maintenance, outsource, procurement, Product Voice, Project Extranet, real-time collaboration, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, Skype, test plans, UI, user interface, variations, video, Web Services APIs, widgets, workflow

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/rob-phillpot-on-aconex-apis-and-acquisitions/

Feb 19 2009

Out of the blue: LotusLive

Categories:

AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0

by Paul Wilkinson

19 February 2009

About a year ago, I wrote a short post about IBM’s prototype Bluehouse product (see IBM targets SME collaboration with SaaS Bluehouse). Today at Public Service Events‘ Construction Project Management ’09 conference at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, I had chance to get a quick update on latest iteration of that product from the team …

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Tags: blogs, Bluehouse, bookmarking, Brendan Tutt, communities, Construction Project Management, Dogear, eWeek story, file sharing, Flickr, IBM, Kalexo, LinkedIn, Lotus Connections, LotusLive, Manchester, portal, Public Service Events, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Skype, Social Media, social networkingm, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, Web 2.0, WebEx, widgets

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/02/out-of-the-blue-lotuslive/

Jun 06 2008

Construction and Web 2.0

Categories:

AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS

by Paul Wilkinson

6 June 2008

I attended a meeting of one of Constructing Excellence‘s Collaborative Working Champions groups yesterday, and one of our debates concerned discussing and communicating the benefits of collaborative working. Some of the group were surprised that related issues (for example: Egan’s recent speech) and themes (technology, people and processes) were already being discussed on social media …

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Tags: blogger, Bloglines, blogs, collaborative working, Collaborative Working Champions, communication, Constructing Excellence, Del.icio.us, Digg, Egan, Facebook, feed reader, Flickr, Flock, forums, Google Groups, iGoogle, mash-ups, micro-blogging, Newsgator, people and processes, Piczo, PodCampIreland, RSS, Second Life, social networking, Twitter, TypePad, unconference, Web 2.0, widgets, Wikia, Wordpress, Y ouTube, Yahoo Groups. Building magazine

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/06/construction-and-web-20/