Having recently received a comment from Chris Brandt, CTO at conject, I thought it was high time that I took a more detailed look at this construction and real estate collaboration vendor. Based in Munich, Germany, but with operations across most of Europe, conject has gradually been expanding its international reach beyond Europe. It has …
Tag: Business Collaborator
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/the-conject-interview/
Nov 17 2009
“A tough year for BIW”
Duncan Mactear of 4Projects has forwarded me an article about [my former employer] BIW Technologies, published recently to subscribers to Megabuyte.com (an “invaluable source of market intelligence for IT companies, their advisers and investors providing in-depth coverage of the corporate and financial affairs of all of the UK’s leading listed and privately owned software & …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/a-tough-year-for-biw/
Nov 06 2009
Business Collaborator growth slows
Business Collaborator, the Reading, Berkshire-based provider of construction collaboration technologies (and other applications including an ethical supplier database, SEDEX) has just reported its financial results for the year to 31 December 2008 at Companies House. At the time of its 2007 figures (published very promptly in April 2008 – post), directors of the Unit 4 …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/business-collaborator-financials/
Oct 01 2009
Coda2go + Salesforce strengthen SaaS Financials offer, but what about Business Collaborator?
This week saw news of a partnership between US based software-as-a-service CRM vendor Salesforce.com and accounting systems vendor Coda. Why should I be interested? Well, Coda – since January 2008 part of Dutch ERP vendor Unit 4 Agresso NV – is also the parent of UK construction collaboration technology provider Business Collaborator. At the time …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/10/coda2go-salesforce-strengthen-saas-financials-offer-but-what-about-business-collaborator/
Aug 17 2009
I HATE LOSING!
UK construction collaboration technology vendors with long(ish) memories will recall the surge in interest by the major UK water utility companies in using web-based systems to support their Asset Management Programmes (AMPs) during the early 2000s. Former BuildOnline boss Mark Suster, now a venture capitalist in California, tells the story of a defeat clutched from …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/08/i-hate-losing/
Jul 27 2009
‘Extranet’ vendors getting social?
(This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses how UK construction collaboration vendors are embracing social media as part of their communications mix.) I have spent much of the past ten years working in the ‘extranet’ or ‘construction collaboration technologies’ market, but as well as this blog, I …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/07/extranet-vendors-getting-social/
Jul 10 2009
Collaboration vendors unveil (old) plans for deeper interoperability
Last month, members of the UK-based Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) announced plans to provide greater integration between their different applications (see news release). At the time, I was too busy to write about it, but the topic cropped up briefly in conversation with the Incite guys (post) recently, so I’ve had another …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2009/07/collaboration-vendors-unveil-old-plans-for-deeper-interoperability/
Nov 24 2008
BuildOnline UK revises past performance
New figures available from the UK regulator, Companies House, show that BuildOnline UK, the UK-based construction collaboration vendor that is now part of CTSpace, waived a substantial debt prior to its 2006 merger with Citadon. It appears BuildOnline also substantially overstated its revenues for four years. However, the business was still operating at a loss …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/11/buildonline-uk-revises-past-performance/
Nov 04 2008
Recession and the construction SaaS providers
The R-word has arrived. In his Brickonomics blog, my good friend Brian Green today talks, not for the first time, about “the recession in construction”, which he says “is looking increasingly desperate as the giant commercial sector appears to be heading for a nasty fall”. Earlier this year, like many industry people, I was hopeful …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2008/11/recession-and-the-construction-saas-providers/
Oct 13 2008
The new ‘extranet’ battleground
In the past couple of months, there has been a sudden explosion in the number of construction collaboration vendors offering process management solutions. On 21 August, Aconex announced “a major upgrade to its Workflows module, which supports advanced document management in large or complex project environments”. The features apparently include “a wizard that allows users …
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