Category: SaaS

German SaaS player reports 33% sales growth

Germany’s think project! reports strong 2015 sales as it confirms focus on BIM and digital collaboration. think project!, the Munich, Germany-based provider of AEC SaaS project collaboration technologies, grew its sales revenues in the year to 31 December 2015 by 33% to €25.4m – that’s around £19.8m or US$28.4m (see news release). In 2014, it reported …

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Envision expanding capabilities

Envision Activity Timeline

Australia’s Envision has developed into a powerful data hub well-suited to mega-projects. It’s almost five years since I was first contacted by Ennova’s Hugh Hofmeister to talk about the Brisbane, Australia-based company’s Envision construction project management platform (see May 2011 post). Then, a mobile-first approach to cloud-based construction management was relatively new, as was applying lean thinking, …

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Sypro CAM (not a webcam)

Wilmslow High School

NEC3 software specialist Sypro Management has launched a new compliance and asset management application. Humberside, UK-based Sypro, best-known for its NEC3 contract change management Software-as-a-Service application (one of several competing in the NEC battleground, and a former software partner of Business Collaborator), launched a new product: Sypro Compliance & Asset Manager in late 2015. Sypro CAM is, …

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A quick mobile AEC catch-up

Bridgit wins at Google Demo Day

Mobile-first SaaS construction collaboration vendors Cadbeam, Finalcad, Sherlayer, BaseStone and GenieBelt continue to compete for attention in the UK. The thirst for mobile applications in the architecture, engineering and construction market shows little sign of being quenched, and there is scope for new start-ups to carve out a niche for themselves. Competing with relative veterans …

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Construct.pm delivers mobile project management

Construct redlining

London-based Construct.pm provides some real-time messaging alongside its core mobile construction project management workflow tools, and offers far more than the usual snagging tools. With only a short time to spare to walk round the exhibitors at the Digital Construction Week show (post) in October, it made sense to arrange follow-up calls with some of …

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Zutec: desktop, mobile and even the “internet of things”

Remote sensing - Live Data

Ireland’s Zutec, through its focus on commissioning and handover has built a strong position in the megaprojects market, and is looking to expand further. Dublin, Ireland-based mobile construction technology provider Zutec exhibited at two London events I recently attended: the Digital Construction Week show in October (post) and Construct IT for Business’s “Future of BIM” …

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Joined-up data needs joined-up CDEs?

BIM Level 3 Technical infrastructure - Mark Bew

Mature BIM use in future will increasingly require owners and their supply chains to share both legacy and real-time data about multiple assets. Being able to extract data held across multiple CDEs will be increasingly important.  Yesterday, I attended the final ThinkBIM conference of 2015 (“BIM outside the Building”, organised by Leeds Beckett University’s CKE); …

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Geospatial expertise vital in managing BIM and Big Data

AGI Foresight 2020 image

“Integration of BIM and GIS is a good place to start connecting BIM and Smart Cities” Yesterdays CIOB International Inspiring Construction conference (hashtag: #CIOBInspire) in London heard a series of great presentations on a “Smart future”, from Arto Kiviniemi of Liverpool University, BAM Design MD Andrew Pryke, Sellafield’s John Robison and AECOM’s David Philp. Data – …

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An SME AEC SaaS catch-up

SmallBuilders.com.au

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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Notes from Viewpoint’s Field View user day

The Field View user conference in London has provided some useful updates on Viewpoint’s mobile development plans. 13:00 GMT – Viewpoint For Projects (formerly 4Projects) has been growing strongly in terms of users during 2015, adding 5,900 users/month, EMEA managing director Alun Baker told the last* user conference for Field View (formerly Priority1, acquired by …

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