Category: Blogs

Apr 10 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’ (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

Since my pre-Easter post regarding Phil Wainewright’s suggestion to rename Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ‘Webware’, he says there has been some further debate, and he has started a poll. At 4pm GMT today, 69 votes had been cast and the leader was ‘webware’, gathering as much votes as ‘SaaS’ and ‘On-demand’ combined. (PS: If you are a …

ASPnews.com, on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Webware

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Mar 29 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
29 March 2007

Following on from my previous post (about defining BIM), my favourite Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) blogger, Phil Wainewright has identified a new alternative term for SaaS. In So long SaaS, welcome webware, Phil also links to a new Webware website, and, as “SaaS is a throwback to the past”, gives the older term “a couple years at most”. One slight complication is …

on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Webware

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Mar 14 2007

DWF v PDF v other formats

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
14 March 2007

In my book, I devote a short section to discussion of the file formats commonly used in construction collaboration. A more comprehensive overview of the subject is given in David Harrison’s Stress-free blog, in an article entitled Why Autodesk should ‘Open’ DWF. David extends the analysis beyond my basic comparison of DWF and PDF formats; …

2D, 3D, BIM, CAD, contract, David Harrison, DWF, IFC, JCT, PDF, Stress-free, trust
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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
2 March 2007

Having looked at collaboration for viewing marketing collateral, etc, I have just read a fascinating AECbyte by Lachmi Khemlani. In Exploring Second Life and its Potential in Real Life AEC, she describes her (or her avatar’s) first steps into Second Life – the online virtual reality “alternate” world. She describes how one US architectural firm, …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, CAD, collaboration, Second Life

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Feb 26 2007

CAD collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
26 February 2007

Earlier this month, I mentioned New Zealand-based David Harrisons’ Stress-Free blog. In a more recent, long post entitled CAD Collaboration, he discusses the challenge of collaborating around CAD models. He gives a good outline of how teams have used technology to share CAD information to date, including the use of what he calls “external document management”. …

4Projects, Adept, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, Bentley ProjectWise, BIW, blog, Buzzsaw, CAD, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, David Harrison, Eskudos, IFC, National Platform for the Built Environment, Project Divercity, Stress-free, VDEFT
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Feb 25 2007

Data security – SaaS: the sooner the better!

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, SaaS
25 February 2007

Your data: safe in your hands? is the title of a blog posting from SaaS expert Philip Wainewright. It succinctly punctures some of the empty claims made by sceptics of the on-demand approach. He finishes: “If you value the security of your data, then the sooner you hand it over to Google or some other …

Google, on-demand, Philip Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Feb 09 2007

First Blogs, then splogs, now flogs (and CJ)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, Marketing
9 February 2007

This week’s issue of UK public relations trade magazine, PR Week, has a ‘blog special’ feature, and a front-page headline, Fake bloggers to be exposed. This says: “PR professionals who pose as customers to blog for clients could soon find themselves named and shamed by Trading Standards, and even face civil court proceedings.” (From a …

AEC, blog, blogging, Building magazine, Contract Journal, flog, PR Week, splog, UK
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Feb 05 2007

Design review tools

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
5 February 2007

The past week has seen some blogging about design review tools from two of the AEC CAD heavyweights: Bentley and Autodesk. Bentley has announced (29 January) the release of ProjectWise Navigator – “the first visual collaboration client for design review and analysis plus work packaging that fully supports iterative workflows and reuse of all content throughout …

AEC, Autodesk, Bentley, CAD, collaboration, design review, ProjectWise Navigator
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Feb 01 2007

On-demand embraced – and not just CRM

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, SaaS
1 February 2007

Numerous industry articles about On-demand applications or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have taken Salesforce.com’s customer relationship management (CRM) as the key exemplar of take-up, but there are signs that corporations are also keen to take up other types of on-demand software. Phil Wainewright blogs (Large organizations embrace on-demand – and not just CRM) about market research from …

CRM, project management, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Feb 01 2007

PDF to become ISO standard

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet
1 February 2007

Cadalyst reports that Adobe intends to release the full PDF (portable document format) v1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). It is, says Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, “the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, …