Melbourne, Australia-based international SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has appointed a senior vice president with responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Global Accounts (see news release). Reporting to Aconex CEO Leigh Jasper, Henry Jones has 20 years of experience in management, sales, marketing, and business development, gained most recently at legal services provider Axiom Global. Prior …
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Aug 26 2014
4Projects adds Revit plugin
Watching the SaaS construction collaboration vendors adding building information modelling (BIM) capabilities to their platforms, it’s clear some have been moving more quickly than others. As regular readers may recall, Asite was one of the first to champion what it called collaborative BIM (cBIM) and, recognising the high market penetration of Autodesk’s Revit BIM authoring software, it added …
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Aug 06 2014
No SaaS ‘Safe Harbor’?
Will US-owned vendors of collaboration services be shunned by clients wanting to keep their intellectual property safe from prying US eyes? I recently had an email conversation with someone who was trying to choose between different SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors. His initial focus was on the functionality of the various platforms, but he then began …
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Jul 22 2014
New chairman at Aconex
Aconex, the Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider, has appointed a new chairman. Simon Yencken, who succeeded the then embattled Martin Hosking in June 2011, has stepped down (but will remain a director) and Adam Lewis (right), a non-executive director since November 2011, is the new chairman. Today’s boardroom reshuffle announcement has also seen Keith Geeslin, a …
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Jul 18 2014
Aconex to float on ASX?
The Australian Financial Review is reporting that Aconex is preparing for an initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange. The Melbourne-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor (now sporting a shiny new corporate identity) is said to be working with investment banks UBS and Macquarie Capital to prepare a road show for fund managers in …
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Jul 17 2014
Aconex revamps corporate identity
Aconex, the Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor has updated its corporate identity, and overhauled its website to reflect the new logo. The zingy blue and orange colour scheme has been toned down, and the logo is now a more subtle grey with an orange diagonal on the letter ‘x’. The updated screen-width website …
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Jul 16 2014
SmartBuilder and Woobius close down
Late last month I learned that Dublin, Ireland-based Android mobile construction application developer SmartBuilder was closing down. A brief message to me from founder and CEO Peter Daly explained “Despite the promise of the new app we have been unable to source additional funding.” It appears that the company’s May 2014 effort to rename and reposition itself …
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Jul 03 2014
EstimateOne to expand beyond Australasian e-tendering
Streamlining complex construction procurement in Australia could be platform for growth into other markets, EstimateOne’s founders believe. I have been writing about web-based tendering solutions for the construction industry for around 10 years, watching what has been a slow and still somewhat gradual expansion. By 2005, my then employer, BIW Technologies (now Conject) had launched an e-tendering solution that …
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Jun 18 2014
Plangrid pushes simplicity
San-Francisco-based Plangrid is targeting the simple mobile plan-sharing needs of site-based staff, but expanding functionality. Another player in the mobile construction collaboration market in the US is San Francisco, California-based Plangrid. I received an email late last month from PlanGrid’s chief technology officer Ralph Gootee (a former Pixar Animation Studios software engineer) telling me about the …
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May 19 2014
Plan2Finish marks new step for SmartBuilder
After four years of trying to crack the UK and Irish market with an Android-based construction defects management (aka ‘snagging’ or ‘punchlist’) application, Dublin-based Smartbuilder has launched a new Android application under a new name and website, Plan2Finish, and has also set up shop in the USA. On Friday it announced the launch of its …
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