Nov 23 2015
I have a backlog of industry posts that I will be posting over the next week or so, but I’ve also been sent a couple of other news snippets…. 1: Corecon updates Pitched at the small to medium-sized end of the north American market (“Run your entire operation for about $1 a day!”), Corecon Technologies recently …
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Sep 02 2015
OpenECX and its WebContractor application provides an end-to-end – purchase order to payment – SaaS-based process management platform. The UK construction e-commerce sector isn’t one I’ve looked at that closely, particularly when it comes to managing buyer/supplier financial transactions between construction businesses. I have tended only to give it a brief mention if it involves a …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2015/09/openecx-targeting-subcontractors/
Jul 16 2015
The UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, now owned by Viewpoint, is was being sued in the Australian courts by Melbourne-based Project Collaboration, once the exclusive reseller of the 4Projects platform in Australasia. According to a statement of claim filed in the County Court of Victoria,* Project Collaboration Pty Ltd is was suing 4Projects Ltd for breach of …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2015/07/4projects-facing-au9m-claim/
Jun 24 2015
Proposed EU changes to national Freedom of Panorama (FoP) rights could affect individuals and organisations taking photographs or videos of construction works and sharing them in commercial platforms. Freedom of Panorama (FoP) is a somewhat obscure provision in copyright law that allows people to take photographs or video of buildings and and other works in public places without …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2015/06/progress-photos-at-risk-of-fop-changes/
Nov 16 2014
Aconex IPO reportedly downsized but back on track for a December 2014 ASX listing. Just a couple of weeks after postponing a planned Au$230m initial public offering (IPO) just 24 hours before it was due to publish its prospectus, Melbourne-based Software-as-a-Software construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex is (according to a report by Sally Rose in The Age; …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/11/aconex-resurrects-ipo-plans/
Aug 06 2014
Will US-owned vendors of collaboration services be shunned by clients wanting to keep their intellectual property safe from prying US eyes? I recently had an email conversation with someone who was trying to choose between different SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors. His initial focus was on the functionality of the various platforms, but he then began …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/08/no-saas-safe-harbor/
Aug 04 2014
A clutch of broken link alerts, a website now longer accessible, emails bouncing…. It seems that west London, UK-based construction collaboration technology provider, Cadweb, has ceased trading, weeks after UK rival Woobius did the same. Cadweb crash Formed in 1995, Cadweb launched its first commercial product in 1998 (I wrote an IT Best Practice Programme …
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Mar 10 2014
UK-based Kykloud have turned to a successful SaaS reseller team to boost their platform’s penetration in Australasia. North Shields, UK-based mobile building surveying and SaaS asset management vendor Kykloud has launched an operation in Australasia, working with the same reseller team which successfully launched the 4Projects SaaS AEC collaboration platform into that region in August 2012. The …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/03/exclusive-kykloud-anz-launches-saas-surveying-and-asset-management-down-under/
Sep 04 2013
One-time SaaS collaboration innovator Incite lingers on in the Australian market while former executives are celebrating a new start-up success. Long-standing readers of Extranet Evolution may recall my posts about the Australian business Incite, a Leighton Holdings subsidiary which in 2009 developed some potentially ground-breaking SaaS collaboration technologies to support construction projects. I got a …
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Mar 14 2013
After disposing of its US FM operations, Bricsnet is focused on project collaboration and will be consolidating its growing business under the ProjectCenter brand. I was recently asked: “Whatever happened with Bricsnet?” As the question came from a former investor in the European SaaS construction collaboration pioneer, it was a little surprising. The Bricsnet back …
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