Category: Extranet/CDE

Feb 22 2010

Woobius simplifies pricing of “simply simple” collaboration solution

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2010

Since I first came across UK-based low cost file-sharing and collaboration vendor Woobius in April last year, I have kept tabs on their development. [Disclosure: I have also undertaken occasional paid PR consultancy projects for the company.] Their latest news (see also blog post) concerns a simplified approach to the pricing of their core collaboration …

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Feb 01 2010

Collabor8online: talking low-cost collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 February 2010

I had a long telephone chat on Friday with Colin Barnes, founder of Collabor8online (see post), a little over two months since the construction collaboration solution’s UK launch. Colin explained that Collabor8online was very much targeted at the SME end of the market. “Recognising that for many businesses email is too messy and difficult to …

4Projects, AEC, architects, architecture, Asite, BIW, Brava viewer, Business Collaborator, CAD, calendar, Colin Barnes, Collabor8online, comment, Construction, construction collaboration, cost, ease of use, email, Engineering, estimating software, functionality, Google, iCal, innovation, M&E, mark-up, marketing, mechanical and electrical, mobile, MySQL, Outlook, per-project, per-user, pricing, public sector, relational database, Ruby on Rails, SME, Software-as-a-Service, time, Woobius
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Jan 18 2010

The Bricsnet interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
18 January 2010

Having been impressed by Bricsnet‘s marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog a handful of times over the past four years – most recently last November (posts here and here). …

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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 11 2010

BIW – Battered in Woking

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

I see (thanks to a post by Nathan Doughty – to which I will respond in a separate post) that the latest annual reports and accounts have been filed at Companies House by Woking, Surrey-based BIW Technologies Ltd [my former employer*] and its newly-formed parent company, BIW Technologies Group Ltd. Both underline what I have …

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Jan 07 2010

Project Bluestreak and the ‘collaboration kernel’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Vendors, Web 2.0
7 January 2010

I wrote about Autodesk’s experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, last November, being interested in both its promise of accelerated building information modelling (BIM) and its deployment of Web 2.0 tools to help speed up the application’s development. On his StressFree blog, David Harrison has written a long and detailed paper, Bluestreak and the birth …

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Jan 07 2010

Show us the numbers, Cadac

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
7 January 2010

I have railed before (Give us the figures, Cadweb!) about construction collaboration technology vendors trumpeting how much their business has grown without actually giving us any figures to substantiate their hype. Latest offender is Netherlands-based Cadac who developed Organice, a document management solution based on Microsoft’s SharePoint system (see post). A Cadac Organice BV news …

Cadac, Cadac Group Holding, Cadweb, construction collaboration technology, document management, Microsoft, Organice, profitability, revenues, SharePoint, vendors

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Dec 17 2009

Brialto

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0
17 December 2009

I received an email earlier this week inviting me to join Brialto, an online business networking platform as a pioneer member. It claims it is “the first online business networking platform to replicate everything you would expect to see at an offline networking event – rooms where events take place, a list of members and …

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Dec 16 2009

Business Collaborator goes mobile too

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Telecoms
16 December 2009

UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor, Business Collaborator has just launched BC Mobile, “a new module for mobile devices that will enable users of its BC 5.3 project collaboration service to access files and information and to action tasks on the go”. According to today’s news release: “BC Mobile allows users of internet enabled mobile devices …

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Dec 09 2009

4Projects and profitability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
9 December 2009

“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …