Category: Internet

May 15 2008

RIBA CPD events

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
15 May 2008

I am presenting at two events next week. On Wednesday morning, 21 May 2008, I will be in Knutsford, Cheshire talking about construction collaboration technologies to architects from the northwest group of the Royal Institute of British Architects – part of a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) event organised in conjunction with Constructing Excellence‘s IT Construction Forum …

architects, Birmingham, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, CPD, IT Construction Forum, Knutsford, RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects

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May 15 2008

BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Legal, People issues, Sustainability
15 May 2008

The programme for the 2008 London international BuildingSMART conference has been published. The one-day event – enticingly (ha, ha!) entitled “The STAND-INN Route to Sustainability and Value for Money in Construction and FM using BIM/IFCs” – is to be held again at the RIBA in London, on Wednesday 25 June. The day includes: sessions on …

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May 15 2008

ICT is key to cutting carbon emissions, says EU

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, Internet, Sustainability
15 May 2008

Thanks to a post by ZDNet’s Andrew Donoghue, I see that the European Union is to promote the use of ICT to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy, starting with buildings, lighting and the power grid. An EU press release dated 13 May 2008 says: “… the most advanced computer servers consume the same amount of …

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May 14 2008

Future of the NCCTP – update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Vendors
14 May 2008

Representatives of 4Projects, Aconex, BIW (me!), Business Collaborator, Causeway and Sarcophagus met today in the upstairs room of a pub (fittingly, perhaps, The Phoenix) in London’s Victoria to discuss the future of the NCCTP, the UK construction collaboration technology providers association. It was a lively session, due in no small part to the talents of facilitator …

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May 12 2008

Future of the NCCTP

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
12 May 2008

The future of the NCCTP, the UK construction collaboration technology providers association (now part of Constructing Excellence), is to be debated at a facilitated meeting of its steering group in London this week. The group was founded in late 2003 and set out to create some data exchange standards between the different vendors’ systems and to …

BIW, Building magazine, conference, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technology, market research, NCCTP, UK

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May 09 2008

Twitter on

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet
9 May 2008

The inside back page of this week’s Building magazine has ZeroChampion Phil Clark writing about Twitter. He’s spurred me into action, so – joining some of the other regular Building bloggers – I’ve now started ‘tweeting’ too (and have downloaded TwitToday to allow me to ‘tweet’ from my Windows Mobile smartphone while I’m out and about). (Twitter was …

Building, Phil Clark, Twitter, TwitToday, ZeroChampion
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May 02 2008

SaaS market “to undergo very rapid revenue growth”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
2 May 2008

Recent market research conducted by UK-based Ovum suggests the SaaS (software as a service) market is set to undergo very rapid revenue growth. The company forecasts that the revenues generated by SaaS vendors will increase, in some regions, by at least 50% each year for the next four years (source: news from the Sofnet …

Ovum, SaaS, Sofnet, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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Apr 30 2008

Microsoft: SaaS update

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
30 April 2008

It’s difficult to avoid talk of Microsoft at the moment, what with talk of its (stalled?) bid for Yahoo (post) and recent falling profits; what interested me last week was news of Microsoft beginning trials of web-based Office, and its later Live Mesh announcement. Here’s a quick update…. Web-based Office According to the Times: Microsoft is poised …

Aconex, Excel, Google Docs, Leigh Jasper, Live Mesh, Microsoft, Office suite, PowerPoint, SaaS, web-based Office, Word, Yahoo

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Apr 29 2008

McKinsey talks up SaaS again

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
29 April 2008

Management consultants McKinsey have again talked up the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) opportunity (see post, McKinsey surveys the new software landscape, by Nick Carr) – almost exactly a year since I last wrote about them in this context. Carr writes: … software-as-a-service is rapidly “becoming mainstream,” with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are “favorably disposed to adopting …

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Apr 22 2008

CTSpace – minor update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
22 April 2008

Further to my February post, the CTSpace website has still not been updated, although there is a good-looking link page from the parent group Sword site, listing CTSpace locations in the US, UK, France, Germany and Austria. In the meantime, I read here that former CTSpace (and before that Constructware) executive Gary Greenberger has left the business and joined …