Category: AEC

Jun 24 2015

Progress photos at risk of FoP changes?

Proposed EU changes to national Freedom of Panorama (FoP) rights could affect individuals and organisations taking photographs or videos of construction works and sharing them in commercial platforms. Freedom of Panorama (FoP) is a somewhat obscure provision in copyright law that allows people to take photographs or video of buildings and and other works in public places without …

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Jun 22 2015

City-Insights = asset insights

City-Insights - handover

City-Insights potentially does more than ‘tell stories about places’ – as a mobile web tool, it could be used by construction and property professionals for a host of hyper-local internal and external communication purposes. The recent COMIT* community day, as usual, welcomed some new members and a few guests. Among the former was City-Insights, a young (c. …

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Jun 19 2015

iSite 2014 revenues up 7%

Styles & Wood’s specialist information management subsidiary iSite grew its revenues again in 2014, but not at the double-digit, 33% rate initially indicated in September. Described as the group’s ‘Business Intelligence’ offering within its professional services portfolio, the SaaS property information systems vendor’s turnover was £1.84m, up a more modest 7.5% from 2013’s £1.711m. Profit was squeezed from …

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Jun 17 2015

Aconex boosts investor hopes

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Just over six months after its December 2014 IPO on the Melbourne Stock Exchange, and some four months on from a rosy financial update, Australian-based Software-as-a-Service collaboration vendor Aconex is benefitting from the currently weak Australian dollar, according to various reports (eg: AFR). According to Aconex, full-year revenue for the year to 30 June 2015 should rise to …

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Jun 12 2015

Docia boosts RIB SaaS revenues

Acquisition of Docia helped increase RIB’s 2014 earnings from its SaaS/cloud operations, and these more than doubled in the first quarter of 2015. The value of the July 2014 acquisition by RIB Software of Copenhagen, Denmark-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka Byggeweb) has been confirmed in RIB’s 2014 Annual Report, which, somewhat belatedly, I’ve been reading this …

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Jun 12 2015

Conject website upgrade

Michelle Mason

Conject, the Anglo-German provider of SaaS construction collaboration applications has revamped its website, placing an increased stress on infrastructure lifecycle management (ILM). The new website went live this week, announced in a 11 June news release proclaiming: “the launch of the new website reinforces the company’s unique commitment to supporting customers throughout the planning, construction, …

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Jun 02 2015

Render: deployment management

Joe Forbes (Render)

Render Networks’ deployment management application provides a simple SaaS interface to some powerful software that can help improve productivity in infrastructure network delivery projects. Introduced by a mutual friend now working at associated Australian company Biarri (“We help Shape our World with Powerful Maths and Simple Software”), I had a video-chat today with MD Dan Flemming and …

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May 29 2015

Upgrading the infrastructure

It’s not just about the quality of construction collaboration software – the infrastructure used to deliver that SaaS technology is critically important too. A repeated thread during last week’s “Viewpoint for Projects“ customer summit in London (post) was the improvement delivered by the company’s switch from BT hosting in Glasgow to hosting with Rackspace in …

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May 28 2015

Coming soon: SherLayer

Sherlayer logo

I have been followed on Twitter by SherLayer (pronounced ‘share layer’): a cloud-based solution that lets you collaborate and manage information across multiple projects. With no software to download, unlimited cloud storage, pay-as-you-go access and a simple icon driven interface, it means your team simply sign in and get sharing. The business’s video starts with …

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May 21 2015

Goodbye, 4Projects. Hello, Viewpoint for Projects

4Projects summit

This week’s 2015 Viewpoint customer summit conference in London drew over 100 people, all provided with an update to the company’s product development roadmap outlined in Newcastle last May (4Projects: the future is cloud-based everything). One headline announcement has been confirmation of the rebranding of 4Projects; with effect from September 2015, the SaaS construction collaboration application will be …

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