Category: Internet

Jan 02 2008

More on Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2008

After a blogging break over Christmas and New Year, I have started 2008 with another quick look at the Sword Group – which announced it had acquired construction collaboration technology vendor CTSpace on 21 December (see previous post). Reviewing the Sword Group’s offerings, it seems CTSpace will augment the parent’s existing enterprise content management (ECM) or document …

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Dec 20 2007

Web conferencing, ICT and paper savings?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, ROI/benefits, Sustainability, Vendors
20 December 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote about web conferencing and its potential contribution to reducing carbon footprints by eliminating some travel. In a comment, Cece Salomon-Lee of ON24 noted that such online sessions also reduce the need to print out copies of presentations, etc (assuming, of course, that participants don’t later download the presentations and print them out …

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/12/web-conferenc-1/

Dec 07 2007

SaaS growth in Asia

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
7 December 2007

Three months ago, I wrote about Springboard Research findings regarding the state of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market in Australia and New Zealand. Today, I received an email from Springboard’s Bhoorender Panwar attaching a press release headed: SaaS CRM Market in Asia Estimated to Grow 68% in 2007. Springboard estimates that the SaaS CRM market will grow …

Asia, collaboration, CRM, SaaS, Springboard Research

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Dec 05 2007

Share and share alike

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
5 December 2007

Jerry Laiserin ‘s latest AEC Insight column at Cadalyst usefully segments the US market for online plan rooms and what he calls project collaboration networks (PCNs) – ie: construction collaboration technologies as they are described in the UK – as in NCCTP, for example. In Share and share alike (which, in passing, rightly describes the …

4Projects, Adobe, Asite, Attolist, BIM, BIW Technologies, Buzzsaw, Cadalyst, Causeway Technologies, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, CTSpace, e-Builder, Expesite, extranet, FTP, Jerry Laiserin, NCCTP, Newforma, online plan room, PCN, ProjectWise, SharePoint, US, WebArchives

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Dec 05 2007

Drowning in information…

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
5 December 2007

Writing my paper on ICT and sustainable construction last week, I would have liked a quotation I found in Monday’s Guardian newspaper, where the Media section was edited by guest editor Vint Cerf, ‘architect of the internet’. Cerf asked several influential internet gurus to “Tell me the future” and Peter Norvig, director of research at …

Google, Guardian, information, knowledge, Peter Norvig, Rutherford Rogers, tuna, Vint Cerf

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Dec 03 2007

Google to target collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
3 December 2007

Over two years ago, I first wrote about the JotSpot collaboration tool; 13 months ago, I noted that JotSpot had been acquired by Google. Today, via TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington, I have been reading about Google’s 2008 plans for Google apps, and it appears Google is planning to deliver collaboration tools based on the JotSpot technologies that “will …

Google, Google Sites, JotSpot, TechCrunch, wiki
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Nov 28 2007

IT and sustainability – 4

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, ROI/benefits, Sustainability
28 November 2007

Apologies for the lack of posts this week. I have been putting the finishing touches to a document on ICT and construction sustainability (see IT and sustainable construction) prior to sending it to a few carefully chosen friends for some feedback. I am trying to conclude the document by Friday (30 November): deadline for submissions to …

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Nov 26 2007

Asite Workspace demo on YouTube

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
26 November 2007

To help companies capture potential sales leads, they normally ask users to enter some contact details before they can view or download some sales materials from their websites. UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is no exception when it comes to its Asite Workspace application – except that it is now possible to view the …

Asite, Tony Ryan, Workspace, YouTube

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Nov 26 2007

More website woes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Vendors
26 November 2007

I talked last month about the problems of websites suddenly becoming unavailable. After BIW, 4Projects and ePIN, the latest UK collaboration vendor to suffer a website outage is Sarcophagus. [Update (27 November): Site back live again.]

4Projects, BIW Technologies, ePin, Sarcophagus, website

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Nov 23 2007

Take-up of BIM growing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
23 November 2007

An article in US journal Building Design & Construction reports that US adoption of building information modelling (BIM) applications is accelerating (thanks to Mel at the Elemental blog for the link). More than a third of roughly 200 owners (collectively representing c.$115 billion in annual construction spending) responding to the 8th Annual Construction Management Association …