Category: Future

Feb 13 2007

ACT-UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, Marketing, Vendors
13 February 2007

ACT-UK, the UK West Midlands-based National Centre for Advanced Construction Technologies, was launched at the end of last month (see 31 January news release). It aims to become a “centre of excellence for the construction industry, creating a knowledge based environment where education, inspiration and innovation flourish”, and is backed by various national and regional partner …

ACT-UK, Asite, CIOB, CITB, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Egan, extranet, National Centre for Advanced Construction Technologies

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Feb 01 2007

On-demand embraced – and not just CRM

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, SaaS
1 February 2007

Numerous industry articles about On-demand applications or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have taken Salesforce.com’s customer relationship management (CRM) as the key exemplar of take-up, but there are signs that corporations are also keen to take up other types of on-demand software. Phil Wainewright blogs (Large organizations embrace on-demand – and not just CRM) about market research from …

CRM, project management, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Feb 01 2007

PDF to become ISO standard

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet
1 February 2007

Cadalyst reports that Adobe intends to release the full PDF (portable document format) v1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). It is, says Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, “the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, …

Adobe, AIIM, DWF, ISO, PDF, standard

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Jan 29 2007

Online collaboration via Vyew

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
29 January 2007

I blogged last year about JotSpot’s wiki product (acquired by Google). Another tool in the similar area is Vyew, a web conferencing solution (mentioned by Lars Plougmann). I like the idea of being able to share documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc online with mark-up, whiteboarding, and text-chat all enabled via a standard browser. And best of all, it’s currently …

collaboration, JotSpot, Vyew, wiki

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Jan 22 2007

De Kieviet’s Gambit – more CTSpace ‘spin’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, SaaS, Vendors
22 January 2007

The latest spin on CTSpace comes in a one-page ‘Company focus’ feature in UK trade weekly Building (see PDF on CTSpace’s website). At first glance, the article, written by Mark Leftly, makes CTSpace seem a very credible venture, but I think there are some very debatable assertions. I was puzzled by the claim that the merger …

Aconex, acquisition, AEC, Autodesk, BIW, Building magazine, BuildOnline, Buzzsaw, Citadon, Constructware, CTSpace, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, merger, UK, US
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Jan 19 2007

The email argument revisited

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
19 January 2007

I keep returning to this topic (see previous post, for example). This time, my post has been prompted by three things: a Union Square press release, a conversation with Sarcophagus’s Jeremy Sainter, and a blog posting by Lars Plougmann linking to the thoughts of a Harvard professor. Taking these in reverse order, Lars writes about …

AEC, blog, collaboration, email, extranet, MsgSave, on-demand, SaaS, Sarcophagus, UK, Union Square, wiki, Workspace
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Jan 18 2007

On-demand/SaaS “set to take off in 2007”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
18 January 2007

Like several other analysts (see my Predictions post), Jeff Kaplan, of THINKStrategies, is also predicting a good year for on-demand services in 2007. In a recent Network World column, he draws on a recent survey of 550 IT professionals and business executives which “found that about 40% use one or more managed services, and nearly 95% …

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Jan 12 2007

Collaborative BIM – wow! or what?!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
12 January 2007

After my ‘extranet’ predictions post earlier this week, I had a think about Asite‘s Collaborative BIM product, and whether the industry is yet ready for such a thing. Regular readers may recall (see my 10 October 2006 post) that Asite first announced its ‘forthcoming’ collaborative BIM product at a London conference on 4 October. Just over a fortnight …

AEC, Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, Collaborative BIM, IAI, UK, US
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Jan 09 2007

‘Extranet Evolution’ 2007 predictions

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
9 January 2007

New Year is traditionally a time for looking back at the significant developments of the year just gone and for looking forward at what may happen in the coming year. For example, there was a lot of activity in the latter respect regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS analyst Phil Wainewright wrote a series of three SaaS in 2007 …

acquisition, AEC, BIM, business processes, construction collaboration, extranet, merger, mobile working, on-demand, polarisation, rationalisation, SaaS, UK
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Dec 04 2006

EatYourCad Babbage Award goes to … Avanti

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
4 December 2006

On the excellent EatYourCad blog (see December 2005 post) Nigel Davies has had an irreverant look back at 2006 and made some awards for ‘“things that should not be”, things that have drawn a wry smile or things that have been plain crazy’. And ‘The Cart Driving The Donkey Award’ goes to … Avanti. Nigel writes: …