Category: Extranet/CDE

Jun 22 2006

Business Collaborator highlights Harvard OCPM research

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
22 June 2006

Business Collaborator‘s latest press release, entitled Harvard Report Shows UK Leads Way in Benefiting from Online Collaboration, gives a vendor-specific viewpoint on the research undertaken at Harvard University into online collaboration and project management (OCPM) technology (see my previous posts, eg: this one, and the most recent one). BC claims the research found "UK companies …

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Jun 22 2006

Constructing Excellence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Vendors
22 June 2006

Asite‘s Nathan Doughty attended the Constructing Excellence Building and Estates Forum meeting in Reading on Tuesday (I normally attend these events, but couldn’t go as my wife is in Italy, leaving me to take/collect kids from school, etc). He apparently found it an interesting day, but gave no news on the Avanti project, which was …

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Jun 15 2006

Asite share price

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
15 June 2006

After reaching a brief high of 4p last week following Nathan Doughty’s £10k investment, Asite‘s share price has fallen back towards the 2.5p level it has maintained for much of the past few months. When the London Stock Exchange closed yesterday, Asite shares were valued at 2.625p each.

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Jun 14 2006

NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
14 June 2006

Members of the NCCTP marketing group today had their first presentation from independent market research agency Benchmark regarding the NCCTP survey of over 250 users of the leading UK construction collaboration technology solutions (aka ‘extranets’). Fieldwork was completed last month. There are some fascinating insights to come, but I cannot share them here yet as …

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Jun 08 2006

Newforma Project Center

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 June 2006

In the US, Randall Newton at AECnews.com has been talking to the people at Newforma who, on 1 June, launched Newforma Project Center – a client/server based system that sits inside an organisation’s firewall. The product is "designed to help project managers and team members gain control over their burgeoning and complex project information". This …

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Jun 07 2006

Microsoft pulls PDF publishing from Vista

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Vendors
7 June 2006

In Construction Collaboration Technologies: The Extranet Evolution, I talked about file formats and the increasingly common practice of publishing drawings and other documents in the Adobe PDF format. That trend may be about to change, with another document format just over the horizon. At AECnew.com, Randall Newton says: "the ability to publish directly to PDF …

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Jun 06 2006

Construction Computing 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
6 June 2006

Just received an email from Craig Molloy at BTC confirming the dates of the Construction Computing 2006 show. It will on 8th and 9th November at the Barbican exhibition centre, London. This year’s event will apparently be co-located with the Bentley User Community Conference; I expect this will ensure a good number of designers among …

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Jun 06 2006

Pearce-ing insight

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
6 June 2006

The latest Contract Journal monthly insight of what working life is like within a well-known construction group looks at the Pearce Group ("We will be launching our new website soon…" it promises). The usual question about project collaboration tools prompts IT manager Dave Fox to eulogise to CJ business editor John Leitch about 4Projects: "We …

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Jun 05 2006

Sharepoint: first, ProjectWise StartPoint, then Citadon Jazz

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
5 June 2006

The Bentley BE conference has now finished and various correspondents have compiled their reports, some mentioning the ProjectWise StartPoint product (previously covered here and here). In the AECbytes newsletter, Lachmi Khemlani describes the new entry-level solution, saying it is designed for smaller, co-located teams rather than larger teams in multiple locations which full ProjectWise caters …

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Jun 05 2006

Latest Asite results

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
5 June 2006

Simultaneously with last week’s announcement of Asite’s change of CEO (see preceding post), was the Stock Exchange announcement of Asite’s final results for the year ending 31 December 2005. Turnover was down 9% on the previous year at £1.529m (from 2004 figure of £1.674). Underlying trends were a little more optimistic – for example, the …