Category: Vendors

Jul 20 2006

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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Jul 17 2006

Cadweb.net 7 released

According to its latest news release, UK extranet vendor Cadweb has, "after 2 years of research and development," announced the release of the latest version of Cadweb.net (version 7). Following a "major database and functionality rewrite", the solution is claimed to be more secure, more customisable and faster. Things clearly move slowly in Cadweb. While …

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Jul 10 2006

Collaborate to avoid disputes, says BuildOnline

According to a 5 July news item on BuildingTalk, "18 per cent of projects result in serious disputes, which can delay projects and destroy client/contractor relations." This is apparently the conclusion of research from BuildOnline. "Poor document management is to blame for creating major lags, with employees wasting over two hours per week searching for …

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Jul 06 2006

Taywood profiled in CJ

The latest Contract Journal monthly profile of a well-known construction group looks at Taylor Woodrow Construction. The question about project collaboration tools reveals, unsurprisingly, that it tends to use 4Projects: "The company was quick off the mark and one of the first to incorporate the use of project collaboration tools. In our experience, web-hosted extranets, …

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Jul 04 2006

Business Collaborator parent company to demerge

According to a London Stock Exchange announcement this morning, CodaSciSys, the parent company of Business Collaborator is proposing to demerge. The company’s CODA and Business Collaborator divisions, together with other related trading entities, will become part of a separate group under a holding company, CODA plc, which will be separately listed on AIM. If all …

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Jul 04 2006

Aconex background

Want some historical background on Aconex? Read this profile, Global team plays it fast and friendly, from the Sydney Morning Herald. Gentle PR stuff about Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot’s university careers, playing squash, reading books, and building a customer service ethos. There is a reference to the first manifestation of Aconex software (though it’s …

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Jun 30 2006

BuildOnline launches programme management ‘heatmap’ solution

BuildOnline has launched what it claims is "the first ‘heatmap-based’ programme management system". Project managers get a real-time ‘pressure gauge’ to monitor progress across their projects. The system was developed in partnership with BNP Paribas, and is described as an "enterprise-class programme management system … targeted at project managers of mission-critical projects, such as the …

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Jun 22 2006

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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Jun 22 2006

Constructing Excellence

Asite‘s Nathan Doughty attended the Constructing Excellence Building and Estates Forum meeting in Reading on Tuesday (I normally attend these events, but couldn’t go as my wife is in Italy, leaving me to take/collect kids from school, etc). He apparently found it an interesting day, but gave no news on the Avanti project, which was …

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Jun 19 2006

ReproMAX DFS

An article from the US publication, AIA Focus, entitled Digital Project Collaboration, looks at two US solutions: Newforma (see previous post) and ReproMAX DFX (sic), "a web-based, third-party document management system established by a consortium of more than 225 international printers familiar with the AEC industry". A user of the ReproMAX DFS (correct spelling) describes …

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