Category: Marketing

Apr 05 2006

BIW wins Building award

In front of a 1500-strong audience of the great and good of the UK construction industry, BIW Technologies last night (04 April 2006) walked away with the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award 2006 in the Building Awards (see previous post) – the UK construction industry equivalent to the ‘Oscars’ – see news release. I entered …

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Apr 02 2006

Autodesk completes Constructware purchase

On Friday 31 March, Autodesk announced that it had completed its $46 million acquisition of on-demand software vendor Constructware. The latter’s website promptly disappeared and you are now redirected to pages about Autodesk Constructware – sorry, make that "Autodesk® Constructware®" as ‘Constructware’ is now another registered trademark of Autodesk Inc. Among a fairly comprehensive re-branding, …

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Mar 22 2006

Cadweb tweaks website design

Just noticed that UK extranet vendor Cadweb has updated its website design slightly. It’s not a radical redesign like that done by Causeway (see last week), more a bit of a ‘tweak’. The Cadweb home page now features a left-hand navigation bar, and there is a big photograph of a lot of scaffolding (deliberately reminiscent …

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Mar 22 2006

Direct marketing works

As a PR/marketing professional working in the IT world, it is sometimes easy to forget that offline marketing techniques still have their place. While I have become a little disenchanted with trade shows, BIW still experiments with such events (next month, one of my colleagues will be at an IT Showcase event in Leeds, and …

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Mar 20 2006

Catching up

What only one update in a week? What have I been up to since I got back from the Boston conference? On Tuesday, I met up with an old PR friend – internal communications consultant (and fellow cyclist) Liam Fitzpatrick (Working Communication) – and then with Peter Goodwin of the PIX Protocol – hoping to …

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Mar 13 2006

Red Star Causeway

A few weeks ago, I noted the re-branding of Ramesys to RedSky IT (and the unfortunate coincidence with an explosion at a nearby oil depot). Today, I noticed that another UK-based AEC IT vendor (a competitor to Ramesys in some sectors) has rebranded. Causeway Technologies’ website is now a feast of red, black and orange; …

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Mar 07 2006

Aconex selected for train station development

I noticed another couple of new press releases from Aconex yesterday. The ‘train station’ release is worth a short note, not least because it says “Costain has selected Aconex” – a notable achievement in the UK construction project extranet market as Costain has for some years been a strong advocate of rival provider Business Collaborator. …

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Mar 03 2006

BIW up for Building award

While talking about Building magazine (see previous post), I was delighted to discover that the company I work for, BIW Technologies, has been shortlisted once again in the Entrepreneur of the Year category of the 2006 Building Awards (read the BIW news release). The results will be announced on 4 April at a black-tie dinner …

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Feb 27 2006

ISO27001 certification (2)

Last week, following BIW’s hosting infrastructure achieving BSI certification, I discussed ISO/IEC27001 and Cadweb’s claims regarding compliance. Someone at Cadweb either read the BIW news release or this blog, for this evening I notice that Cadweb’s page on legal admissability has been updated to refer throughout to "BS 7799 / ISO 27001" (a format used …

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Feb 23 2006

Collaboration consolidation (3): Citadon targets Constructware users

It’s taken just over a week, but at least one US competitor to the combined Autodesk/Constructware offering (see previous posts) is trying to tempt any disaffected customers away. Citadon is offering a "Special Migration Program for Constructware Customers and Partners". Citadon aims to help firms "respond to business challenges" resulting from Autodesk’s recently announced plan …

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