Category: Extranet/CDE

Nov 02 2009

Howdy, Howzee

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
2 November 2009

At Be2camp@WorkingBuildings last month, I met Tuomas Saarelainen who told me to have a look at his Helsinki, Finland-based company Mobimus and its service howzee.info – which I have just done. It is an intriguing concept, but currently only sketchily described (and with no website screenshots to give some idea of what the service looks …

Asesh Sarkar, Be2camp, Be2camp 2008, BuildingBulletins, construction collaboration technology, Finland, fit-out, Helsinki, HIP, Home Information Pack, housing associations, howzee.info, hyper-local, intellectual property, landlords, local authorities, micro-project, Mobimus, owners, property managers, ReadWriteEnterprise, residential lettings, ResidentsHQ, supply chain, tenants, Tuomas Saarelainen, UK, US

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Oct 29 2009

Meridian user forum

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
29 October 2009

Thanks to a news release published on AECcafe.com, I have learned that Meridian Systems, US-based provider of project management solutions including Prolog and Proliance, has created an online forum for users of its products. The platform – the screenshot suggests it is essentially a discussion board – is intended to help Meridian customers collaborate and …

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Oct 29 2009

Bye-bye BT Workspace, Hello Glasscubes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
29 October 2009

In early 2007, I wrote about BT Workspace, a Software-as-a-Service that the UK telecoms giant was offering to small and medium-sized businesses. Built on a modified version of the Microsoft SharePoint platform by US company SMBLive, BT Worskspace offered extranet-type project workplaces at a competitive price (£7.50 per company user per month; free for micro-teams …

BT Workspace, CAD, calendar, Clouds UK, Colaab, collaboration, conference call, Construction, contact management, contractual processes, CRM, drop.io, e-Grou, extranet, file sharing, Glasscubes, Glasscubes Connect, Google, Incite Toolbox, intranet, micro-blogging, Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook, project management, ShowDocument, SMBLive, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, whiteboard, Woobius, Yammer
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Sep 22 2009

Asite community revisited

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
22 September 2009

Back in June, I wrote about construction collaboration vendor Asite‘s revamped website and its new social media features. Three months later, I had a quick look to see how the Asite community has been developing…. Blog posts have been a bit slow in coming. Three in June, one in July, none in August and one …

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Sep 14 2009

Keeping an Eye on Woobius

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 September 2009

I wrote about the low-cost simple collaboration application Woobius earlier this year (first here, then here), and they’ve remained on my radar ever since, partly because of their participation in one of this year’s Be2camp events (in Liverpool in May*), and partly because they subsequently approached me to undertake a couple of small PR projects …

Amsterdam, architect, architecture, Be2camp, Be2camp@WorkingBuildings, BIW Technologies, broadband, Capita Symonds, collaboration, connectivity, Construction, defects management, Engineering, facilities management, Gensler, Hayes Davidson, health and safety, Liverpool, logistics issues, London Olympia, Make, manufacturers, mobile phones, mobile solution, PICNIC, planning application, PR, real time, suppliers, touch-screen SmartPhones, Vodafone Mobile Clicks, Web 2.0, wifi, Windows Mobile, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouTube

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Sep 04 2009

Aconex UK jumps forward

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS
4 September 2009

The UK operation of Australia-based online construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex tended to lag behind its home-grown competitors, but in the past couple of years it appears the London office has made a great leap forward. The latest published results (up to 30 June 2008) show it dramatically increased its turnover and reported a healthy …

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Sep 03 2009

BuildOnline’s UK downward drift

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
3 September 2009

Partly out of historical interest, I continue to monitor the company reporting of BuildOnline, a construction collaboration technology vendor which is now part of the French-owned Sword Group, today trading as Sword CTSpace and offering a portfolio of products from former offerings BuildOnline, Citadon and, more recently, Cimage. BuildOnline (UK) Ltd’s Annual Report and Accounts …

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Sep 03 2009

Good numbers from 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
3 September 2009

Latest results, for the 12 months up to 31 March 2009, show that UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects enjoyed its most successful year to date. According to the latest returns submitted to Companies House, revenues grew 24% to £5.502m (up from £4.420m in 2008 – see 4projects turnover up a third), while pre-tax profits …

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Jul 29 2009

AECcollaborators Twitter League

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
29 July 2009

Following my post about how some providers of construction collaboration technologies are beginning to incorporate social media tools and techniques into their communications, I have set up a Twitter League to monitor how many companies and people in those businesses use Twitter, how active they are, how many followers they have, etc (I’ve added a …

@AECcollaborator, AECcollaborators, collaboration, Construction, Social Media, Twitter, Twitter league

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Jul 10 2009

Collaboration vendors unveil (old) plans for deeper interoperability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
10 July 2009

Last month, members of the UK-based Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) announced plans to provide greater integration between their different applications (see news release). At the time, I was too busy to write about it, but the topic cropped up briefly in conversation with the Incite guys (post) recently, so I’ve had another …