Category: Extranet/CDE

Jan 02 2006

Christmas working (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2006

Since my pre-Christmas musings about those who might work over the holiday period, I have had chance to analyse traffic regarding users of BIW Information Channel. Despite the widespread UK AEC industry shutdown, there were still individuals who logged in to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. In total, BIW saw 553 logins …

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Dec 30 2005

“It’s too slow” – blame online radio

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
30 December 2005

Occasionally, as vendors of web-based construction collaboration technologies, we face protests from users who say the extranet solutions are too slow (usually because they don’t offer the almost-instantaneous responsiveness of software loaded onto their hard drive or perhaps their local area network). As ASPs, we can do a lot to ensure that our applications are …

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Dec 29 2005

Asite CEO goes permanent

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
29 December 2005

Almost missed this in the Christmas run-up, but (thanks, Richard) on 21 December, UK collaboration technology vendor Asite announced to the London Stock Exchange the following directorate changes: following the appointment of Mr. Gordon Ashworth as acting Chief Executive Officer in March 2005, that this position has now been made permanent Mr Tony Ryan, Sales …

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Dec 20 2005

Needed: a new NCCTP standard: how to account for extranet ‘traffic’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
20 December 2005

In addition to vendors’ reluctance to release accurate and realistic statistics relating to their user bases (see recent posts here and here), I also find it difficult to get a clear handle on how much user activity each construction collaboration technology vendor is managing. Let’s take a couple of topical examples. First, a recent Aconex …

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Dec 19 2005

Christmas working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues
19 December 2005

Today’s Guardian newspaper has an article suggesting that more than two in five office workers plan to log on to their work emails over the festive period (men are slightly more likely to do so, as are people living in London compared to those living in Humberside). As a blogger writing about extranets, this leads …

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Dec 14 2005

Harvard conference, March 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, ROI/benefits, Vendors
14 December 2005

Earlier today, I attended a meeting of the NCCTP marketing group. We reviewed our conference last month, and started making plans for the 2006 edition (probably in October this time). We also discussed our plans to undertake some market research to investigate what benefits our users gain from our various construction collaboration technology solutions. This …

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Dec 14 2005

Buzzsaw: second-most widely used ASP? (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
14 December 2005

After yesterday’s post (expanded upon by Nathan Doughty here), I tried a few web searches to find out how many users Autodesk claims for Buzzsaw. In November 2002, Autodesk claimed to have "more than 65,000 users"; this grew to 105,000 users from 750 companies (according to an April 2005 article), then 125,000 last month (November …

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Dec 13 2005

Buzzsaw: second-most widely used ASP?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
13 December 2005

At AECnews.com, Randall Newton offers a Reporter’s Notebook: A Day at the Virtual Builders Roundtable, a US event organised by practitioners for practitioners. From his notes, two items stood out to me. First: "The general consensus regarding FTP (File Transfer Protocol) as a tool for collaboration seems to be, if you still have FTP hanging …

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Dec 13 2005

Wilkinson’s book: “extremely helpful …, clearly and logically laid out”

By Paul Wilkinson in Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
13 December 2005

Two reviews in the space of a week! Following the piece in QS News (see Friday’s post), I have just been shown a piece in the latest Property Week, where Ian Wall, chief executive of the EDI Group, looks at three books for Christmas. "Paul Wilkinson’s Construction Collaboration Technologies, subtitled ‘The Extranet Evolution’, will be …

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Dec 12 2005

Changes at BuildOnline? (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
12 December 2005

About six weeks ago, I pondered on management changes at BuildOnline. Today, I learned (thanks, Richard!) that the BO website now features a six-strong management team; the non-exec chairman and CEO are now accompanied by no less than three managing directors – for northern Europe (Bob Godfrey, like the chairman an ex-i2 recruit), southern Europe …