US vendor e-Builder has launched ‘e-Builder Professional’ – described as “an economical solution tailored to meet the specific needs of design professionals”. The new offering combines a “low price point” with “full document management capabilities, drawing management view and markup, and collaboration capabilities, … unlimited storage options … [and] the ability to add specific modules on …
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Aug 17 2006
SaaS checklist
What to look for in a SaaS vendor is Phil Wainewright’s excellent 8-point checklist on what prospective customers should seek from a vendor, with a ‘best in class’ vendor achieving 6-8 out of 8. It’s quite a demanding list and one that would pose some serious challenges for some of the leading UK construction collaboration technology …
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Aug 16 2006
Bovis partnership with BIW
The 16 August 2006 issue of Contract Journal has the latest monthly insight into a well-known UK-based construction group – this time Bovis Lend Lease. The standard question, “Does your company make use of project collaboration tools?” gets the following response from chief information officer Scott Farquhar: Bovis became famed for Hummingbird, our earlier project collaboration …
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Aug 11 2006
UK extranet vendor PR update
The past couple of months have seen a flurry of UK deals reported on the websites of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors. For example: BIW Technologies has just announced a three-year corporate deal with contractor Fitzpatrick Business Collaborator signed up Parkman Mouchel in June BuildOnline is to support Thomas and ADAMSON and the City …
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Aug 08 2006
Autodesk Buzzsaw 7 released
One of Autodesk’s DWF bloggers (there don’t appear to be any official Buzzsaw bloggers), Scott Sheppard (Beyond the Paper) says Autodesk has released a Buzzsaw version 7 update. Mainly administration improvements by the look of things, plus an updated user interface.
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Aug 08 2006
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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Aug 08 2006
ASP, SaaS, On-demand or the “business web”?
At ASPstreet, an article – What do you call your ASP? – by Minda Zetlin usefully sums up some of the debate about terminology, and proposes a term that we may hear more of in the months ahead. Zetlin points out that the term ‘ASP’ became discredited in some people’s eyes by its much-hyped associations …
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Jul 28 2006
QS News covers NCCTP extranet research
QS News is the latest journal to publicise the NCCTP market research published last week (see 20 July post – Contract Journal wrote about it earlier this week); read "QSs back web portals" (strange that they chose to use the word ‘portals’ – not a word employed in the NCCTP news release at all). The …
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Jul 25 2006
Causeway links with National Federation of Builders
Contract Journal reports that the UK trade association, the National Federation of Builders has named Causeway Technologies as its "Strategic IT Solutions Partner". NFB members, which are primarily small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), will get preferential rates on Causeway software solutions which include estimating and project accounting products, along with offerings for content management, document …
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Jul 25 2006
ProjectDox: Informative Graphics enters US collaboration market
Well-known for its Brava! viewer, Informative Graphics has now launched its own AEC web-based ‘extranet’ product, which will apparently go head-to-head with Autodesk’s Buzzsaw and Constructware in the US market (see ProjectDox for Construction Project Collaboration in AECcafe.com). It is not offered as an Application Service Provider (ASP, aka Software-as-a-Service, SaaS) solution. Instead customers host …
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