Category: Extranet/CDE

Nov 02 2006

CIRIA changes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
2 November 2006

Via QSNews, I learnt yesterday that Tim Broyd is to step down as chief executive of CIRIA, and will be succeeded by Bill Healy. Both men have played a role in promoting construction collaboration technologies in the UK, having spoken at extranet conferences and, in Bill’s case, handled the affairs of the CIRIA-hosted NCCTP during …

AEC, CIRIA, construction collaboration technologies, extranet, NCCTP, UK

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Nov 01 2006

Ex-Constructware exec joins Citadon

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Looking across the Atlantic again, a news release tells me Gary Greenberger, former Vice President of Sales for Constructware, has joined rival collaboration technology vendor Citadon to head its sales operations in north and south America. The release says: "Mr Greenberger was instrumental in developing the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) sales model and …

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Nov 01 2006

US: Trimble buys Meridian Project Systems

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Latest collaboration news from the USA concerns the acquisition in an all-cash deal (terms not disclosed) of leading project management software business Meridian Project Systems by GPS and mobile IT systems specialist Trimble – the latter’s seventh acquisition of 2006 (says AECnews.com). Trimble has been assembling a suite of software, hardware and services with the …

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Nov 01 2006

Asite shares climb after markets told of deal

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
1 November 2006

Asite‘s share price leapt 35% yesterday, to a heady 2.875p, on news of the collaboration vendor’s deal with Welsh Health Estates (its first contract win announcement since April 2005). Given the market reaction, the news was clearly price-sensitive, yet the industry has been aware of the deal for over a month. First, Asite mentioned it …

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Oct 30 2006

BuildOnline statistics

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
30 October 2006

Thanks to a software review in the latest (November 2006) issue of Project Manager Today, we learn that UK AEC vendor BuildOnline: "markets a ‘project extranet’ hosted Web system, that has 8,000 customers and 1,300 projects and programmes currently on the go, with 43,000 users; all in the construction industry. … there are currently 3.7 …

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Oct 24 2006

BIM – Asite targets US

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
24 October 2006

Earlier this month, UK-based collaboration vendor Asite announced that it planned to release a collaborative BIM product (see 10 October post). It has just issued a further press release saying it will be announcing (again) the “forthcoming release of Asite Collaborative BIM at the Building SMART Week Conference” in Washington DC next week. BuildingSMART is the recent preferred …

Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, collaboration, Construction, extranet, IAI, IFC, UK
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Oct 19 2006

e-PIN overhauls website (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
19 October 2006

Got an email today from Robin Shipston, a director of ePIN – a BIW competitor and one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology. He gently criticises me for not including ePIN’s website on my links list. This was because the list was originally focused on members of the NCCTP – however, as …

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Oct 18 2006

Factors in buying software

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
18 October 2006

In “Why Do You Buy CAD Software? Survey Result (preliminary)“, Roopinder Tara of the CAD Insider blog (and the useful TenLinksDaily newsletter) gives an early indication of the key factors used in assessing CAD software for purchase – based on an online survey (still ongoing at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=891102592287). After over 120 responses, the key factors (listed in …

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Oct 12 2006

CJ Construction Industry Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Vendors
12 October 2006

I have just skimmed through a supplement to this week’s UK trade magazine Contract Journal covering its annual awards event. Working in IT, I turned first to the IT Award page. This year’s winner was the BAA T5 project at London Heathrow Airport, rewarded for its 3D single model environment. Shortlisted in the same category …

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Oct 12 2006

ProjectWise StartPoint targets AutoCAD users

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
12 October 2006

I have written before about Bentley Projectwise Startpoint. My latest communication from Bentley says the Microsoft SharePoint-based system, first developed to work with MicroStation V8 XM Edition, now supports AutoCAD 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Users can now also download a free 30-day trial of ProjectWise StartPoint for AutoCAD.