London, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration provider Asite has a new US reseller of its Adoddle platform: Microsol Resources, which has offices in New York, Boston and Philadelphia and is an Autodesk Platinum Partner. Emilio Krausz, president of Microsol Resources, says: “We are thrilled to be able to partner with Asite to provide our customers with …
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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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Aug 04 2014
Cadweb goes bust
A clutch of broken link alerts, a website now longer accessible, emails bouncing…. It seems that west London, UK-based construction collaboration technology provider, Cadweb, has ceased trading, weeks after UK rival Woobius did the same. Cadweb crash Formed in 1995, Cadweb launched its first commercial product in 1998 (I wrote an IT Best Practice Programme …
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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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Jun 26 2014
Valuing the UK SaaS construction collaboration market
I was recently asked what proportion of the UK market used a construction collaboration system from a particular vendor, and this led on to a conversation about the overall value of the UK market for SaaS collaboration. It depends… Calculating this is fraught with difficulties: First, some of the smaller vendors do not publish full …
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Jun 06 2014
Asia-Pacific hosting for Viewpoint for Collaboration
Viewpoint Construction Software has taken another step to service Australasian customers using its Viewpoint for Project Collaboration Software-as-a-Service platform (formerly 4Projects), opening a new data centre in Australia. The news release says this centre will “provide Viewpoint’s Asia-Pacific project collaboration customers improved performance as well as additional flexibility on their data hosting options.” Having established a US …
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May 23 2014
4Projects: the future is cloud-based everything
Now dubbed 4Projects by Viewpoint, the collaboration solution is spearheading wider adoption of SaaS across the Viewpoint portfolio. I attended most of the second day of the 4Projects user conference in Newcastle yesterday (Thursday), hoping to hear more about the parent company Viewpoint Construction Software’s plans for its locally-based UK Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration vendor subsidiary. I wasn’t …
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May 22 2014
Think Project! updates – and integrates
Munich-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Think Project! has announced the forthcoming release of a new update to its web-based platform. The stand-out items for me are the integration features, underlining how sophisticated SaaS tools are increasingly being linked to other back-office enterprise systems, and not just by proprietary connections, to seamlessly share data between different …
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