At a Harvard University conference in Boston last year, I briefly met Ric Jackson of FIATECH and talked about the NCCTP’s efforts to develop a data exchange standard that would allow data to be transferred between different construction collaboration (‘extranet’) platforms. From a Cadalyst article, I see FIATECH has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based group …
Category: Extranet/CDE
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/fiatech-and-com/
Jun 19 2007
Workspace + Workspace
According to a news release on Asite‘s website, the company has secured a customer for its entry-level solution, Asite Workspace. REID Architecture, who recently merged with 3D to become 3DReid “chose Asite Workspace to collaborate with its supply chain at the early stages of the Gibraltar’s new air terminal project”. This will presumably be the same REID architecture …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/workspace_works/
Jun 12 2007
e-Builder to make “major announcement”
I read that US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder is planning a major announcement later this month that will have a “resounding impact in the industry for years to come”. I am intrigued. Mind you, the last time I got interested in such a pre-announcement it was only UK vendor Asite‘s build-up to the launch of its collaborative BIM product (and I …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/ebuilder_promis/
Jun 12 2007
Une étude intéressante… (deux)
Since last week’s post regarding the French market for construction collaboration technology, I have had some interesting background from Emmanuel Netter (of Prosys – one of France’s leading Software-as-a-Service vendors) regarding the country’s main vendors, including our friends at BuildOnline. Market beginnings Apparently, collaboration products for the construction market have a slightly different history in …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/une_tude_intres_1/
Jun 08 2007
Datum KnowledgeWorker
According to a news release on Buildingtalk.com, UK-based enterprise content management software vendor Datum International has released a version of its KnowledgeWorker software aimed specifically at the construction sector. It says the software provides firms with “central control over drawings management and health and safety procedures”. Reading the Datum website description of KnowledgeWorker it sounds more like …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/datum_knowledge/
Jun 07 2007
Une étude intéressante…
Une étude intéressante sur le marché anglais du travail collaboratif – No, I haven’t decided to blog in French, but I found a French blogger interested in what is happening in the UK construction collaboration market. My French is poor but (with a little help from the Babel Fish website translator) I think the writer, …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/une_tude_intres/
Jun 01 2007
Croser v. Baxter (‘Building Design’ collaboration debate)
An IT feature in the 16 March 2007 issue of UK trade weekly Building Design is something of a debate between Joe Croser of Bentley and Autodesk’s Pete Baxter on the future of collaboration. You can read the articles yourselves (available online here), but I have picked out what I think were the key exchanges – I wish …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/06/croser_v_baxter/
May 31 2007
Digital Construction in Denmark – UK parallels
Thanks to Bentley Systems (more particularly, an e-Seminar from the May 2007 BE Conference), I have just broadened my knowledge of ICT use in Denmark, and there are strong parallels with what is going on in more enlightened parts of the UK construction industry. PLH Architect Claus Johannessen (with SITE’s Brian Sheldon – good examples …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/05/digital_constru/
May 29 2007
BuildOnline investors nurse losses
Ireland’s Sunday Business Post has reported that “early investors in early investors in Dublin online firm BuildOnline are nursing losses after the firm merged with a US company”. Founded in Ireland, BuildOnline quickly relocated to London during the dot.com boom, and – positioning itself, first, as an e-construction marketplace, then, a provider of construction collaboration technologies …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/05/buildonline_inv/
May 17 2007
UK vendor trends
This blog has reported several times on the financial performance of the main UK vendors of construction collaboration technologies (aka ‘extranets’). In light of recent results, I thought I would provide a quick graphical update/overview of the performance of the main UK vendors (those for whom I have some financial information) over the past four years. …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/05/uk_vendor_trend/
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