Two weeks ago, I mentioned COMIT, Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT, and its forthcoming conference on how smart mobile devices can be used to add value to BIM. Since then (last week), I have attended the COMIT community day and AGM (held at BSRIA, Bracknell) and, from the round-table discussions, it was clear that some …
Tag: BT
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/09/comitwhere-bim-meets-augmented-reality-point-clouds-and-qr-codes-among-other-things/
May 17 2011
AppDirect will sell your B2B apps, er, direct
The cost and complexity of creating a new business-to-business software-as-a-service (SaaS) application has reduced significantly over the past decade, but the challenge of getting that carefully developed new software more widely known and then getting revenues from end-user customers can defeat some developers. Launched in the US in July 2009 (and recently seed-funded to the …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/05/appdirect-will-sell-your-b2b-apps-er-direct/
Dec 09 2009
4Projects and profitability
“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/12/4projects-and-profitability/
Oct 29 2008
Building webinar experience
I sat through a webinar hosted by UK trade magazine, Building, earlier today. Entitled Improving Business Efficiency in a Tough Economic Environment, it featured a presentation by Steve Masters of BT, and was chaired by Ray Crotty of C3 Systems (formerly of Bovis). Reflecting Steve’s role at a telecoms giant, most of his talk was …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/10/building-webinar-experience/
Jul 24 2008
Autodesk opens Buzzsaw hosting centre in Hong Kong
Autodesk has just announced the launch of a new Autodesk Buzzsaw data centre in Hong Kong, to support customers of its construction collaboration solution across the Asia Pacific region, having spent three years on the selection process (see news release). The process was facilitated by inward investment agency InvestHK whose Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/07/autodesk-opens-buzzsaw-hosting-centre-in-hong-kong/
Apr 24 2008
IT in Construction conference, London
I’m at the 4th annual conference organised by Construction News conferences on IT in Construction – an event that used to be organised in partnership with the IT Construction Forum (now part of Constructing Excellence). There are around 70 delegates from across the industry in the room at the Earl’s Court conference centre in west …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/04/it-in-construct/
Jan 09 2008
IT paying ‘lip service’ to sustainability
An article on Computer Business Review says UK companies are failing to use IT to reduce or improve their environmental sustainability, even though they believe that technology is key to tackling the problem. The article, UK companies paying lip service to green issues, is based on a Datamonitor survey, commissioned by BT Global Services UK, in …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/it-paying-lip-s/
Jan 24 2007
BT Workspace
Almost unnoticed, UK telecoms provider BT has recently launched a web-based service, BT Workspace, aimed at helping people in small to medium-sized enterprises share information and collaborate with each other. It talks about getting rid of email clutter, and managing and controlling projects via extranet functionality, with intranet functionality also available for internal company dicussions …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2007/01/bt_workspace_1/
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