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 24 2007
Rows over Wikipedia edits
The media is full of reports about abuse of Wikepedia by organisations wanting to promote their own cause or that of their clients. For instance, the BBC reports that the office of the Australian prime minister John Howard has been identified as the source of damaging or potentially misleading edits to Wikepedia (two days running I get to write about …
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Aug 23 2007
SaaS advice from the experts
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
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 …
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Aug 10 2007
The Road to SaaS
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
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 …
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Jul 20 2007
From SaaS to PaaS
Courtesy of Computer Business Review Online (also ASPnews.com), I read that on-demand vendor Salesforce.com‘s latest release will see its business platform evolve from software-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service, a step that will apparently “antagonize and incentivize big league players Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle”. ASPnews.com also reports – see Software Plus Services Spurs Rapid Growth at Microsoft – that Microsoft is …
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Jul 16 2007
Some Saas background
I occasionally get asked: “where can I read up on Software-as-a-Service?” One place to start is ASPnews.com, which last week had a good background article SaaS: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come … Again.
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Jul 05 2007
ShareWorkz: intranet and extranet collaboration
I, and several of my colleagues, have received emails from Microsoft VAR ICS Solutions about ShareWorkz, described as “a functionally rich, best practice intranet and extranet collaboration platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that enables you to build a collaboration solution in less than one hour”. While it describes itself as “a world first”, I guess …
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Jul 02 2007
“Entry-level” collaboration
Just over a week after the previous one (see post), a second news release has appeared on Asite‘s website telling how a further customer has opted for its low-cost Asite Workspace solution, launched late last year. Engineering and environmental consultancy Wardell Armstrong LLP has become the latest to select Asite Workspace, using the tool for …
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