Category: Extranet/CDE

Mar 20 2006

Collaboration consolidation (5)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
20 March 2006

At WorldCADaccess, Ralph Grabowski linked to an Engineering News Record interview with Scott Unger, CEO of Constructware, undertaken soon after the proposed acquisition by Autodesk was announced. Much of the piece focuses on how Constructware got started, but there were a couple of questions looking to the future. Q: You were recently acquired by Autodesk. …

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Mar 10 2006

Harvard conference, March 2006 (4)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
10 March 2006

It’s been a fascinating day here in Boston. The Harvard Graduate School of Design hosted a conference which brought together well over 100 people from all over north America (plus a handful from the UK) to discuss its research and the implications for the US construction industry. Burcin Becerik summarised some of the key findings …

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Mar 09 2006

Harvard conference, March 2006 (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
9 March 2006

I have just returned from the opening reception and dinner of the Harvard conference on construction collaboration technologies. I encountered some familiar faces (from the UK: Tim Blower from Business Collaborator and his client Marek Suchocki from Atkins/Bank of Scotland; from the US: Burcin Becerik and Spiro Pollalis of Harvard Graduate School of Design), and …

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Mar 07 2006

Aconex selected for train station development

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
7 March 2006

I noticed another couple of new press releases from Aconex yesterday. The ‘train station’ release is worth a short note, not least because it says “Costain has selected Aconex” – a notable achievement in the UK construction project extranet market as Costain has for some years been a strong advocate of rival provider Business Collaborator. …

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Mar 04 2006

Email used to issue 65% of CAD information

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet
4 March 2006

According to a survey of UK CAD managers undertaken by Evolve Consultancy‘s Nigel Davies (reported at EatYourCAD.com; PDF available here): "Email continues to be the most popular form of issuing digital information at 65.5%. The decrease is due to the resurgence in popularity of project extranets which are now the primary issue format of 13.8% …

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Feb 27 2006

ISO27001 certification (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 February 2006

Last week, following BIW’s hosting infrastructure achieving BSI certification, I discussed ISO/IEC27001 and Cadweb’s claims regarding compliance. Someone at Cadweb either read the BIW news release or this blog, for this evening I notice that Cadweb’s page on legal admissability has been updated to refer throughout to "BS 7799 / ISO 27001" (a format used …

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Feb 23 2006

The email argument (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, People issues
23 February 2006

Further to my discussion of the email challenge in Monday’s post, I read Silicon.com’s leader, Living with info overload, yesterday with interest. It says: "the issue is not only how to monitor digital communications … but also how to search and archive the millions of emails we send and documents we create each day," before …

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Feb 23 2006

Collaboration consolidation (3): Citadon targets Constructware users

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
23 February 2006

It’s taken just over a week, but at least one US competitor to the combined Autodesk/Constructware offering (see previous posts) is trying to tempt any disaffected customers away. Citadon is offering a "Special Migration Program for Constructware Customers and Partners". Citadon aims to help firms "respond to business challenges" resulting from Autodesk’s recently announced plan …

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Feb 20 2006

ISO27001 certification

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 February 2006

Soon after my earlier post "The perils of vendor questionnaires", I started updating BIW’s website in connection with the issue of compliance with international standards (I link the two items as standards compliance frequently features in vendor questionnaires). Updates were necessary as British Standard BS7799 Part 2 was superceded last October by a new global …

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Feb 20 2006

The perils of vendor questionnaires

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

The NCCTP recently considered a questionnaire produced by the DTI-funded Avanti project (the questionnaire itself was apparently based on similar ones issued by a couple of major UK contractors as invitations to tender, ITTs) to get basic information about UK extranet vendors, their hosting, and system functionality. One outcome would be the publication of this …