Category: Blogs

Sep 23 2010

Yechte Consulting: managing offshore design costs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
23 September 2010

Earlier this week at the RIBA in London I had coffee with Ben Tellin, a trained architect and managing director of Yechte Consulting. His company, with bases in London and Bangalore, India, provides off-shore outsourcing services to architects and engineers (often adding an international dimension to the network of people already collaborating on a UK …

3D visualisation, architect, Bangalore, Ben Tillman, BIM, blog, CAD, construction collaboration technologies, culture, DocStoc, engineers, Facebook, globalisation, Google Talk, Groupspaces, India, integration, LinkedIn, London, offshore outsourcing, open-source, people, practice management, process, project management, recession, RIBA, Skype, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, Yechte Consulting
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Sep 23 2010

BIW pushes its low-risk message

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
23 September 2010

A (rare) tweet from BIW Technologies* alerted me to a new article on the UK construction collaboration vendor’s website, reproduced from Architect Builder Contractor & Developer (ABC&D). In Controlling Project Outcomes, BIW CEO Colin Smith warns potential collaboration customers about “low-cost suppliers who fail to include sufficient support for the solution that they provide”. He …

ABC&D, Aconex, AEC, Architect Builder Cont ractor & Developer, architecture, Bentley, BIW Technologies, blog, Bob Leung, Cadac, Cadalyst, Clouds UK, Colaab, Colin Smith, Collabor8-online, Construction, construction collaboration, drop.io, e-Grou, Engineering, FileGenius, Glasscubes, Incite Toolbox, low-cost suppliers, project collaboration, rationalisation, recession, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, SharePoint, ShowDocument, Twitter, UK, Woobius
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Sep 13 2010

Woobius pushing the self-service SaaS offer

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
13 September 2010

From its April 2009 launch, Woobius* has been looking to differentiate itself from competitors by virtue of its simplicity (see posts 1, 2). It still believes this is the right approach (albeit less overtly) and while most of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) construction collaboration competitors, UK and overseas, still employ conventional sales and deployment consultants, Woobius has …

4Projects, advertising, architects, Asite, banners, BIW, Bob Leung, brand awareness, Building, Building Centre, Business Collaborator, clients, Company, construction collaboration, consultants, contractors, correspondence, deployment, designers, engineers, Enterprise, James Goodfellow, licensing, magazines, microsite, MPU, off the shelf, paywall, PR consultancy, pricing, project dashboard, project managers, pwcom.co.uk, readership, recruitment, SaaS, sales, scalable, self-service, simplicity, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, Solo, suppliers, Team, Twitter, UK, UNIT4, unlimited users, user base, Woobius, YouTube
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Aug 26 2010

Oversight on iSite

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
26 August 2010

A significant development regarding the Styles & Wood business formerly known as StoreData happened earlier this year – and I missed it! I admit I have been very busy over the last four months so haven't kept my eyes on changes affecting the UK construction collaboration software sector's smaller players (but maybe the vendor's PR …

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Apr 01 2010

The state of (construction) collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 April 2010

I spoke at the Collaboration Cafe symposium held at London’s Building Centre on Tuesday, 30 March. I was third speaker on, following StickyWorld and Slider Studio founder Michael Kohn and Axis Design architect Rob Annable, and my brief from Michael was straightforward: to expand on the blog post, The end of the construction collaboration era?, …

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Mar 24 2010

The end of the construction collaboration era?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
24 March 2010

[This is a slightly expanded version of an article from my pwcom blog.] I am due to speak next Tuesday, 30 March at the Collaboration Cafe symposium at the Building Centre in London. The event is one of the final contributions to an ongoing research project being undertaken by Slider Studio and funded by …

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Mar 02 2010

tCn – The Construction Network – launches

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
2 March 2010

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social …

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Jan 11 2010

“BIW on the back foot?”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
11 January 2010

Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK’s Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies. In BIW on the back foot?, he references this blog and makes a few statements that I would like to comment upon…. I was …

4Projects, Aconex, Asite, BIW Technologies, blog, Business Collaborator, Colin Smith, Companies House, Free Collaboration, India, Nathan Doughty, SaaS, StoreData, UK, Woking

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Jan 05 2010

Box.net and Motion Computing target construction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 January 2010

I use Box.net as an online file back-up and storage solution, and chanced upon a blog post by Box.net’s senior business development manager Matt Soldo talking about a new reseller relationship with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, who produce ruggedised tablet PCs. Positioning itself as “Your plan room in the cloud” (a familiar US refrain), Box.net …

Bluebeam, Box.net, browser, CAD, Clouds UK, Colaab, Collabor8online, commenting, construction collaboration, drop.io, e-Grou, file sharing, FreightTrain, FTP, Glasscubes, Incite Toolbox, Latista, mark-up, Matt Soldo, Motion Computing, PDA, plan room in the cloud, ShowDocument, Skanska, smartphone, tablet PC, Tekla, Vela Systems, Woobius, workflow
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Jan 04 2010

And the stats say….

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
4 January 2010

2009 was a bit of an erratic year for me blog-wise. This was partly a reflection of my change of career path in the spring, coupled with all the effort that has to go into launching and sustaining a new business (meaning that blogging on construction collaboration technologies wasn’t always top of my “to do” …