Category: Extranet/CDE

Jan 02 2008

More on Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2008

After a blogging break over Christmas and New Year, I have started 2008 with another quick look at the Sword Group – which announced it had acquired construction collaboration technology vendor CTSpace on 21 December (see previous post). Reviewing the Sword Group’s offerings, it seems CTSpace will augment the parent’s existing enterprise content management (ECM) or document …

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Dec 23 2007

CTSpace put to the Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
23 December 2007

Just 53 weeks after its last major ownership change, SaaS construction collabaration technology vendor CTSpace (the result of a merger between UK-based BuildOnline and US-based Citadon) has been acquired by the international Sword group of IT companies (as far as I can tell, no value for the transaction has been given). The news came in a …

4Projects, BIW, BuildOnline, Carillion, Cimage, Citadon, construction collabaration technology, CTSpace, ECM, Heath Davies, Howard Koenig, Jacques Mottard, MASS Systems, PIMS, Royal Opera House, SaaS, Schal, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, TPS
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Dec 20 2007

Web conferencing, ICT and paper savings?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, ROI/benefits, Sustainability, Vendors
20 December 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote about web conferencing and its potential contribution to reducing carbon footprints by eliminating some travel. In a comment, Cece Salomon-Lee of ON24 noted that such online sessions also reduce the need to print out copies of presentations, etc (assuming, of course, that participants don’t later download the presentations and print them out …

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Dec 18 2007

Asite directors invest

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
18 December 2007

A Stock Exchange announcement says Asite CEO Tony Ryan, COO Nathan Doughty and non-executive director (and former CEO) Gordon Ashworth have increased their stakes in the UK construction collaboration technology vendor. Ryan bought 186,577 shares at an average price of 2.38 pence apiece, lifting his stake in the company to 442,156 shares (c 0.43%). Doughty acquired …

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Dec 14 2007

Hawthorn Glen v Aconex – latest

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Vendors
14 December 2007

Just two days ago, in the context of collaboration vendor Aconex‘s 2007 financial results (post updated today to include some additional information from Aconex), I said there had been some court activity in mid-November relating to the Hawthorn Glen Pty Ltd v. Aconex Pty Ltd shares dispute. I now know that these hearings, on 15 and 16 November, related to an …

Aconex, Australasian Legal Information Institute, collaboration vendor, Federal Court of Australia, Hawthorn Glen, judgment, Leigh Jasper, Robert Phillpot

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Dec 12 2007

Aconex results hit by legal row

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
12 December 2007

Some three months ago, I had a look at the 2006 financial results for Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Aconex, noting that its 2007 results would be available in November (as per Aconex marketing chief Frank Carron’s comment). After a slight delay (auditors requested an extension of time as some areas required additional testing), the latest …

Aconex, ASIC, Australia, collaboration, Construction, court case, Hawthorn Glen, legal dispute, UK
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Dec 06 2007

EADOC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
6 December 2007

My 30 July 2007 post on e-Builder has prompted a comment regarding a relative newcomer to the US construction collaboration market: Oakland, California-based EADOC. The website is a bit sparse on detail about the company and its founders (a press release – in fact, the only press release – says entrepreneurs Eric Law and Arnout van …

Autodesk, Baan, construction collaboration, Cordys, e-Builder, EADOC, Prolog, US
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Dec 05 2007

Share and share alike

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
5 December 2007

Jerry Laiserin ‘s latest AEC Insight column at Cadalyst usefully segments the US market for online plan rooms and what he calls project collaboration networks (PCNs) – ie: construction collaboration technologies as they are described in the UK – as in NCCTP, for example. In Share and share alike (which, in passing, rightly describes the …

4Projects, Adobe, Asite, Attolist, BIM, BIW Technologies, Buzzsaw, Cadalyst, Causeway Technologies, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, CTSpace, e-Builder, Expesite, extranet, FTP, Jerry Laiserin, NCCTP, Newforma, online plan room, PCN, ProjectWise, SharePoint, US, WebArchives

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Dec 03 2007

Google to target collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
3 December 2007

Over two years ago, I first wrote about the JotSpot collaboration tool; 13 months ago, I noted that JotSpot had been acquired by Google. Today, via TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington, I have been reading about Google’s 2008 plans for Google apps, and it appears Google is planning to deliver collaboration tools based on the JotSpot technologies that “will …

Google, Google Sites, JotSpot, TechCrunch, wiki
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Nov 26 2007

Asite Workspace demo on YouTube

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
26 November 2007

To help companies capture potential sales leads, they normally ask users to enter some contact details before they can view or download some sales materials from their websites. UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is no exception when it comes to its Asite Workspace application – except that it is now possible to view the …