Category: Vendors

Apr 07 2014

McLaren releases FusionLive business intelligence portal

McLaren Software is building new BI and BIM capabilities into its FusionLive SaaS construction collaboration platform. London-based SaaS construction collaboration and (since October 2012) CAFM technology vendor McLaren Software has released a new version of its FusionLive SaaS platform including a new business intelligence (BI) portal with some building information modelling (BIM) capabilities. According to the …

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Apr 01 2014

AEC startup SpecifiedBy closes funding round

SpecifiedBy is another UK startup applying social media approaches to construction industry communications, and has closed its seed funding round. In January 2013 I wrote about an AEC social media startup, SpecifiedBy, ahead of its UK launch. It has just achieved another milestone in its development, closing a seed investment round of £125,000, led by …

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Mar 27 2014

Edocuments enabling O&M data in the cloud

EDocuments

Essex, UK-based Edocuments is looking to reuse AEC product data fragments to populate O&M documentation for owner-operators’ future asset management use. I spent 1.5 days this week in the Siemens Crystal Building in London’s Docklands area, attending Amtech‘s second Crystal Clear BIM conference. Friends commended the first conference last year; I had other commitments then, …

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Mar 21 2014

think project! grows revenues 17% in 2013

Munich, Germany-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor think project! grew its revenues 17% in 2013, achieving a turnover of €17.2m  [£14.4m] (up from €15.5m [£13m] in 2013) by building on engagement with customers in the construction, energy and automotive industries, as well as local, state and federal government. think project! GmbH, says it “continues as the …

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Mar 20 2014

Aconex appoints CMO (again)

Andrew Savitz

There has been something of a revolving door regarding Aconex chief marketing officers (see Aconex appoints a US-based CMO), and the latest to be announced by the Melbourne, Australia-founded SaaS construction collaboration software business is US-based Andrew Savitz. The two previous appointments lasted roughly six months and one month respectively. Savitz will be responsible for the …

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Mar 19 2014

Union Square: Workflow is everywhere (mobile and extranet too)

Union Square is now embracing the AEC ‘extranet’ world it once avoided, and is going mobile with its workflow. Today’s 12th Union Square user group conference at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London saw the launch of the Nottingham, UK-based software vendor’s contract administration module, plus announcements about forthcoming mobile and ‘extranet’ functionality. In its …

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Mar 18 2014

Asite: ‘cocial’ and ‘mocial’

Asite’s product strategy highlights the growing importance of simple, social interface design coupled with mobile SaaS access. Asite‘s London launch yesterday of its new SaaS corporate collaboration platform for the capital asset industry (aka architecture, engineering and construction and owner/occupiers, AECO) was a busy and ultimately, for some, boozy day in Shoreditch Town Hall. After …

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Mar 17 2014

Asite announces Adoddle 17

Asite roadmap v17

London-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is officially launching version 17 of its cloud-based platform at a user group conference and ‘Hooley’ being held at Shoreditch Town Hall in London’s ‘Tech City’. I will be live-blogging highlights during the day (and tweeting; hashtag #Adoddle17 – see also Storify stream). I got an early update from …

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Mar 12 2014

Asktobi ceases to be

[Post updated – 13 March 2014] In January 2011, I wrote about a recently launched, Gateshead, UK-based business offering an “online business networking, e-commerce and information centre for the construction industry”. Alongside Asktobi‘s core offering of an online e-tendering system, were third-party take-off and estimating tools, stationery and publications, and a supplier database. The Asktobi …

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Mar 11 2014

Alun Baker is new 4Projects MD

Alun Baker

Viewpoint Construction Software company 4Projects has appointed Alun Baker as the new managing director of its EMEA region with effect from 10 March. Reporting to Viewpoint president Jim Paulson, Baker takes on the permanent role at the SaaS construction collaboration technology provider previously filled, on an interim basis, by Steve Spark and before that by the …

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