Category: Business/Financial

Some October PR updates from collaboration vendors

New Unit4 Collaboration case study – BC Assure and Thames Water Following its September launch of BC Assure (post), Unit4 Collaboration has published a case study regarding the system’s use by Thames Water (registration required to read full case study). iSite working on Statutory Applications Management On Twitter, iSite said it was developing “a new …

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Aconex launches partner programme

Last week (Aconex invests in north American sales effort), I mentioned that, Aconex, the Australian SaaS construction collaboration technology provider has been developing a partner programme to help it extend its (already quite extensive) international reach. The Aconex Partner Progam webpage went live on Monday, and – in addition to Tidefall – details six other …

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Who owns Asite?

Robert Tchenguiz’s businesses retains the biggest shareholding in Asite Ltd; Stanhope and Laing O’Rourke are also shareholders in the company. In the decade or so that I have been monitoring the UK SaaS construction collaboration technology space, London-based Asite Ltd has stood out as one of the more open businesses when it has come to …

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Aconex invests in north American sales effort

Melbourne, Australia-based construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of Lori B***** as its new senior vice-president of sales and marketing (Aconex advertised the San Francisco-based post in March; post). She has 20 years’ experience at technology heavyweights including Dell (where she was executive director of sales), Oracle and Microsoft, and will be …

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St Valentine’s Day massacre leaves Incite almost out-of-sight

image removed by order of Leighton Holdings Ltd

Briefly one of the innovators of the SaaS construction collaboration technology market, Australia-based Incite has suffered under recent heavy-handed management by parent Leighton Holdings. A couple of years ago, I did some consultancy work for Sydney, Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Incite (aka Nexus Point Solutions Pty Ltd). At the time (April 2009), the two …

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Unit4 Collaboration profits up 41% in 2010

Collaboration vendors turnover (UK)

The somewhat cautious outlook expressed by SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Unit4 Collaboration Software a year ago appears to have been only partly justified. While it has yet to return to the £3m-plus turnover it enjoyed in the pre-financial crisis days of 2008, revenues for the year to 31 December 2010 were up 5% and …

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de Kieviet thinks SharePoint is the future

To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies, Well, he would, wouldn’t he! Following my recent blog post about his move to Netherlands-based SharePoint reseller Cadac Organice, Gert-Jan de Kieviet (right) talked to me about his move from Sword-CTSpace and his somewhat controversial view that Microsoft SharePoint is the future of construction collaboration. BuildOnline and CTSpace In the mid-2000s, …

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ProjectCentre.net and its “anti-email” approach

Some people love email, others hate it; most us, I suspect, are somewhere in the middle, perhaps wearily accepting its necessity, but wishing they got less of it. And yet we often work with applications that add to our email burden, showering us with numerous notifications and demanding rapid responses. I have blogged several times …

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StickyWorld: From specification to collaboration

StickyWorld opens up further potential channels for construction products people to engage with specifiers, and extend collaboration down the supply chain. I have done occasional consultancy work over the past couple of years for east London-based Slider Studio, some of it relating to its StickyWorld platform – a collaborative ‘virtual room’ platform that allows richer …

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Docia sets up in India

Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (‘Byggeweb’ in the Nordic market) has started to operate in India through a newly established partnership with Chennai-based software provider Ram Caddsys Pvt Ltd. This announcement follows August’s news of a new project in New Delhi for the Danish Embassy, with VV Architects from Chennai, local contractors and WSP …

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