Category: Functionality

Sep 24 2007

NEC case study in “Building”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, Vendors
24 September 2007

Last week I mentioned the NCCTP supplement to Building magazine (published Friday 14 September). After a slight delay due to technical problems, the whole supplement is now viewable online. I noticed a small coincidence between the supplement and the main magazine. The latter included a lengthy piece by Davis Langdon‘s Simon Rawlinson: “Procurement – Target …

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Sep 17 2007

Novedge interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues
17 September 2007

I was flattered last week to be interviewed by Franco Folini of the Novedge blog, keen to know my thoughts about how construction collaboration technologies might be employed on AEC projects in the future and examine some of the issues affecting adoption. The finished interview is now online here.

collaboration, Construction, extranets, Franco Folini, Novedge

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Sep 07 2007

More SaaS stuff

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
7 September 2007

Further to yesterday’s posting (and also my 16 July note), ASPnews.com has published two further articles from Julie Craig in its series on software-as-a-service (SaaS): The SaaS Steamroller (14 August) underlines the challenges traditional software vendors face if looking to re-engineer their businesses to become SaaS providers, while Weighing the Pros and Cons of SaaS …

ASPnews.com, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Sep 06 2007

SaaS: the business solution

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
6 September 2007

I have been reviewing quite a lot of material recently regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): First, the pros and cons of SaaS as it applies in the construction collaboration market have been debated by NCCTP members for an article to be published in a supplement to UK trade magazine “Building” next week. Second, I received an email …

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Aug 23 2007

SaaS advice from the experts

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
23 August 2007

Only yesterday I was discussing the pros and cons of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with a construction journalist. I referred her to some material I had written in the past, and a couple of recent articles on the topic. Today, I found another good generic piece on ASPnews.com. SaaS Advice from the Experts stresses that customers cannot …

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Aug 22 2007

DWF v. PDF – an Autodesk interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
22 August 2007

In my book, I discussed Adobe and Autodesk’s development of different file formats to manage design data (it’s a topic I have since returned to – here for instance). I have just found an interesting interview on the Novedge blog with Autodesk’s Mary Hope McQuiston regarding the DWF format – a similar interview having previously been undertaken with Adobe’s …

Adobe, Autodesk, DWF, Novedge, PDF

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Aug 21 2007

ConstructHub

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
21 August 2007

From the European side of the Atlantic, the US market appears able to sustain numerous companies offering various different flavours of AEC-specific document management and online collaboration. Thanks to AECcafe.com, I have just added another Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider to my list: ConstructHub. Based in Tempe, Arizona and formed, it says, by a group of experienced …

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Aug 16 2007

Data Builder

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
16 August 2007

On holiday last month, I read the excellent Bill Bryson book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, about Bryson’s boyhood years growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. Today, thanks to a comment from American Reader on a recent EE post, I had a look at the website of US document management software vendor …

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Aug 10 2007

The Road to SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS
10 August 2007

ASPnews.com has an excellent article, The Road to SaaS: 10 tips for a successful transition, by Luis Rivera, which is aimed at the managers of software companies that might be contemplating a move to Software-as-a-Service. It highlights some of the pivotal differences between the on-premise and hosted models, and the changes – from technological through …

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Aug 08 2007

People, processes and technology

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues
8 August 2007

Attend almost any AEC industry conference or seminar where construction collaboration technologies are discussed and you will usually hear something to the effect that successful collaboration is 80% about people and processes and only 20% about the technologies involved (in my book, I even ventured that the balance could be more like 90/10). This type of guidance …