Category: Internet

Apr 20 2010

Daden wins!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
20 April 2010

On 9 March, I wrote (Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life) about Daden reaching the finals of a major US-based competition to identify cutting edge implementations of Second Life. This Birmingham-based company briefly tweeted about its success, but has now issued a full press release (UK Company wins U.S. Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge), detailing …

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Mar 25 2010

Union Square adds project accounting option to Workspace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
25 March 2010

Union Square Software and its Workspace product haven’t featured very often in this blog, partly because my main focus is on Software-as-a-Service applications for the construction sector, and Workspace tends to be hosted in its customers’ premises, with extranet-type functionality available as an option alongside its core intranet and email management capabilities. However, it’s worth …

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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

3D, 4Projects, accounting, Aconex, APIs, Apple, archINFORM, Asite, augmented reality, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, blog, BuildingSMART, Business Collaborator, CAD, CIOB, Collabor8online, construction collaboration, Construction Manager, contracts, CoverItLive, Daden, ERP, Gartner, GPS, internet of things, iPad, iPhone, Latista, Layar, LiveMeeting, mobile, Motion Computing, Pachube, procurement, SaaS, Second Life, Skype, SliderStudio, SlideShare, smartphone, Software-as-a-Service, StickyWorld, Tablet computing, tCn, the Construction Network, Twitter, UNIT4, Ustream, Vela Systems, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, web conferencing, WebEx, wifi, Wikipedia, WiMax, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouCanPlan
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Feb 27 2010

Maybe there’s a SaaS for that?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms
27 February 2010

Writing a “ten construction IT trends” feature for a UK construction publication this week, I found myself reflecting again on tablet PCs (partly stimulated by the launch of Apple’s iPad), and on the rise and rise of smartphones. I found myself asking: why focus on downloading ‘apps for this and that’ when you might be …

3G, ABI Research, Android, Apple, apps, Be2camp, browser, Construction, EMS, Information Age, internet access, iPad, smartphones, Software-as-a-Service, tablet PCs, The Cloud, wi-fi, WiMax
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Jan 18 2010

The Bricsnet interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
18 January 2010

Having been impressed by Bricsnet‘s marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog a handful of times over the past four years – most recently last November (posts here and here). …

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Jan 13 2010

iConstruction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
13 January 2010

“… developed from the ground up by former Hong Kong Construction industry professionals for the local industry. With a simple English and Chinese interface, ISO 9000 friendly design, and minimal training and support requirements, iConstruction brings real benefits from the first few months of operation, and straightforward licensing options for companies of all sizes to …

Chinese, construction industry, document control, English, Hong Kong, iConstruction, ISO 9000, website

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Dec 09 2009

4Projects and profitability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
9 December 2009

“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …

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Nov 25 2009

SaaS to grow (again)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
25 November 2009

The Construction Software State of the Industry Report, produced by US-based firm Software Advice, is highlighting five trends (three of them upwards), relating to software buying habits, and suggests that the current recession makes Software-as-a-Service-based solutions even more attractive: Software as a Service is in the right place at the right time Software as a …

accounting, Aconex, AEC, APIs, architecture, Asite, BIW, Business Collaborator, cash-flow planning, Coda, COINS, collaboration, Conject, Construction, costs, dot.com, Engineering, ERP, estimating, file sharing, financial control, hosting, implementation, Incite, Intuit, Kashflow, MYOB, project extranets, project management, property, recession, SaaS, SaaSu, Sage, service management, Software Advice, Software-as-a-Service, subscription pricing, Timberline, USA, Xero
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Nov 23 2009

Project Bluestreak

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
23 November 2009

Autodesk’s AEC division has just launched an experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, aimed at “accelerating building information modeling through the open exchange of design information and ideas between desktop applications, web-based services, and people” (reports Autodesk blogger Scott Sheppard). It is also deploying Web 2.0 tools to help speed up the development of the …

AEC, Autodesk, building information modeling, Buzzsaw, collaboration, Constructware, Facebook, GetSatisfaction, Piotr Zurek, Project Bluestreak, Scott Sheppard, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube

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Nov 12 2009

Contract terminated

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Internet, Marketing, Web 2.0
12 November 2009

UK construction trade weekly Contract Journal is to shut down at the end of the month. The news comes as no surprise to anyone who has been monitoring the UK construction press over the past year, and it confirms a prediction made by CIB Communications’ Andy Cassie in February that one major construction title and …