Category: Extranet/CDE

Oct 03 2005

The IPCRES File

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
3 October 2005

No, it’s not a misprint. IPCRES is the strange name given to a group of UK businesses, describing themselves as "the industry-leading Project Management & Property IT Solution Providers". One of the group is extranet provider Cadweb; the others are ICON (design standards software), EPC Integration (project management) and The FM Company (facilities management). I …

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Oct 03 2005

Social aspects of collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues
3 October 2005

As a sociologist (OK, my doctorate was in criminology, but I had to do all the sociological stuff first) now working in the construction industry, I have long been interested in team dynamics – an interest stimulated still further by the challenge of incorporating technology into the mix. Thanks to the guys at Cutting Through …

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Oct 03 2005

Differentiation by extranet

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future
3 October 2005

I have written so much over the past year or so that I sometimes forget what’s been published. While browsing the legal sector blog, Knowledgeline, I found a post about how extranets can help legal firms differentiate themselves from their competitors. This reminded that I wrote an article (September 2004) on a similar topic for …

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Sep 30 2005

ProjectNet: old technology?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
30 September 2005

A bit late in the day, I know, but I just came across an article by Susan Smith in US online publication AECweekly dated 25 July 2005. Entitled "Where Integration and Customization are Key", the piece is built around an interview with Chris French, senior product manager at Citadon. If I were a customer or …

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Sep 30 2005

Moaning architects? (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, ROI/benefits
30 September 2005

Further to yesterday’s post, I received a more detailed response from Erik Winterkorn at the CICA. He writes: "First, it seems that contractors and clients still request paper copies of documents for distribution purposes. Arrangements can be made for all project printing to be done through a bureau and perhaps paid for directly by the …

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Sep 29 2005

Moaning architects?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, ROI/benefits
29 September 2005

I received the latest Construction Industry Computing Association newsletter today. Apart from its publicity for my book, I was struck by a comment from its Major Architects IT Group, which apparently discussed: "The false impression that extranets reduce the amount of architects’ printing and the growing awareness of the true costs associated with using different …

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Sep 28 2005

Asite books more losses

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
28 September 2005

Among the regular email bulletins I receive is one from UK industry weekly Construction News. Today’s includes the above Asite headline, alerting us to the publication of the extranet provider’s latest interim results, for the six months to 30 June 2005. Predictably, CN highlighted the losses, reported by Asite as follows: "The Group’s operating loss …

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Sep 27 2005

Statistics, statistics

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
27 September 2005

If you’ve Googled today, you may have noticed that the Google search page no longer says it indexes over eight billion web pages. An article, ‘Google: Our search is bigger than your search‘, in Silicon.com, says Google has stopped boasting about the size of its index "because people don’t necessarily agree on how to count …

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Sep 26 2005

New ROI: Return on Interoperability

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, ROI/benefits
26 September 2005

I try to keep abreast of developments in IT developments in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) world. One useful newsletter I receive weekly is CADwire.net. This week’s includes a link to the latest issue of Bentley’s magazine BE (not to be confused with the UK-based AEC organisation of the same name – see last …

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Sep 23 2005

Why not Sharepoint?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet
23 September 2005

Earlier this week someone asked me about using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to create an extranet (apparently, his IT department had proposed this as an alternative to them using an external application service provider, ASP). I expressed some reservations, mainly focused around two areas: first, support for common architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) file formats …