Category: ROI/benefits

Extolling the extranet ethos

The latest ITShowcase newsletter reports on the NCCTP market research, Proving Collaboration Pays (see previous post) – basically the text of the NCCTP news release, but at least the key messages are being disseminated.

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Clients increasingly require ‘Extranet expertise’: NCCTP research highlights benefits of using collaboration systems

The UK ‘project extranet’ vendors’ association, the Network of Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) has today published its market research report, Proving Collaboration Pays. The research was undertaken by an independent market research consultancy, Benchmark Research, and is – to the best of my knowledge – the biggest ‘extranet’ user survey ever undertaken, certainly as …

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Business Collaborator highlights Harvard OCPM research

Business Collaborator‘s latest press release, entitled Harvard Report Shows UK Leads Way in Benefiting from Online Collaboration, gives a vendor-specific viewpoint on the research undertaken at Harvard University into online collaboration and project management (OCPM) technology (see my previous posts, eg: this one, and the most recent one). BC claims the research found "UK companies …

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NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (3)

Members of the NCCTP marketing group today had their first presentation from independent market research agency Benchmark regarding the NCCTP survey of over 250 users of the leading UK construction collaboration technology solutions (aka ‘extranets’). Fieldwork was completed last month. There are some fascinating insights to come, but I cannot share them here yet as …

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FMI/CMAA survey

Keeping an eye on US developments, I see AECcafe.com talks of the results of a forthcoming survey to be announced at a conference in November. Thinking this sounded interesting, I Googled the survey and found it can be read at http://cmaanet.org/user_images/sixth_owners_survey.pdf. When talking about project collaboration, it says: "Only 45% [of owners] had their own …

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NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (2)

While serving on the panel of the NCCTP-sponsored stream session at yesterday’s IT Construction Forum annual conference at the Oval in London, I told the audience that the NCCTP was undertaking some market research into user opinions and experiences of the leading UK ‘extranet’ systems. The fieldwork, undertaken by independent market research agency Benchmark, is …

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Interwoven enters US AEC market

Thanks to AECCafe.com, I was alerted to an Interwoven press release announcing an alliance with Data Builder to market a new electronic project control system (Data Builder e-PCS) for the US construction industry (available as both a hosted or managed service). Interwoven is well-known for its enterprise content management solutions, and through its Data Builder …

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Harvard conference, March 2006 (4)

It’s been a fascinating day here in Boston. The Harvard Graduate School of Design hosted a conference which brought together well over 100 people from all over north America (plus a handful from the UK) to discuss its research and the implications for the US construction industry. Burcin Becerik summarised some of the key findings …

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Harvard conference, March 2006 (3)

I have just returned from the opening reception and dinner of the Harvard conference on construction collaboration technologies. I encountered some familiar faces (from the UK: Tim Blower from Business Collaborator and his client Marek Suchocki from Atkins/Bank of Scotland; from the US: Burcin Becerik and Spiro Pollalis of Harvard Graduate School of Design), and …

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Technology for Construction

Lachmi Khemlani’s latest AEC Bytes newsletter discusses a recent US show, Technology for Construction, which included various conference sessions. Project collaboration came up as a topic (albeit renamed by the participants as "ePM, standing for electronic project management" – another abbreviation to add to the list!), and it seems US experiences are generally very positive. …

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