UK collaboration vendor Asite is to hold a half-day conference in London on 4 October 2006. Its "ReThinking Construction Update Conference" programme includes a "Presentation of Asite progress" and a keynote from former Asite chairman Sir John Egan, plus the interesting prospect of a "Major new development to be launched".
Category: Extranet/CDE
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Sep 05 2006
NCCTP research featured in “Building” magazine
The latest publication to feature the NCCTP’s recently published research report "Proving Collaboration Pays" (see previous post) was the leading UK weekly, Building (25 August 2006 issue). The article, How good are extranets?, by Sonia Soltani, doesn’t just focus on the report though; it gives the views of numerous users – from Bouygues UK, Gleeds, …
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Aug 18 2006
e-Builder offers low-cost design collaboration in US
US vendor e-Builder has launched ‘e-Builder Professional’ – described as “an economical solution tailored to meet the specific needs of design professionals”. The new offering combines a “low price point” with “full document management capabilities, drawing management view and markup, and collaboration capabilities, … unlimited storage options … [and] the ability to add specific modules on …
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Aug 17 2006
SaaS checklist
What to look for in a SaaS vendor is Phil Wainewright’s excellent 8-point checklist on what prospective customers should seek from a vendor, with a ‘best in class’ vendor achieving 6-8 out of 8. It’s quite a demanding list and one that would pose some serious challenges for some of the leading UK construction collaboration technology …
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Aug 16 2006
Bovis partnership with BIW
The 16 August 2006 issue of Contract Journal has the latest monthly insight into a well-known UK-based construction group – this time Bovis Lend Lease. The standard question, “Does your company make use of project collaboration tools?” gets the following response from chief information officer Scott Farquhar: Bovis became famed for Hummingbird, our earlier project collaboration …
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Aug 11 2006
UK extranet vendor PR update
The past couple of months have seen a flurry of UK deals reported on the websites of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors. For example: BIW Technologies has just announced a three-year corporate deal with contractor Fitzpatrick Business Collaborator signed up Parkman Mouchel in June BuildOnline is to support Thomas and ADAMSON and the City …
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Aug 08 2006
Autodesk Buzzsaw 7 released
One of Autodesk’s DWF bloggers (there don’t appear to be any official Buzzsaw bloggers), Scott Sheppard (Beyond the Paper) says Autodesk has released a Buzzsaw version 7 update. Mainly administration improvements by the look of things, plus an updated user interface.
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Aug 08 2006
Extolling the extranet ethos
The latest ITShowcase newsletter reports on the NCCTP market research, Proving Collaboration Pays (see previous post) – basically the text of the NCCTP news release, but at least the key messages are being disseminated.
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Aug 08 2006
ASP, SaaS, On-demand or the “business web”?
At ASPstreet, an article – What do you call your ASP? – by Minda Zetlin usefully sums up some of the debate about terminology, and proposes a term that we may hear more of in the months ahead. Zetlin points out that the term ‘ASP’ became discredited in some people’s eyes by its much-hyped associations …
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Jul 28 2006
QS News covers NCCTP extranet research
QS News is the latest journal to publicise the NCCTP market research published last week (see 20 July post – Contract Journal wrote about it earlier this week); read "QSs back web portals" (strange that they chose to use the word ‘portals’ – not a word employed in the NCCTP news release at all). The …
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