Tag: collaboration

Jul 17 2012

Comindware and ElasticData flexibility

I wrote about Comindware last August, and the company has been in touch regarding an update release of its web-based workflow automation and task management solution. While this is not a construction-specific solution, it is aimed at project-based industries (I have just been looking at example workflows for marketing projects or HR processes; there are …

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Jul 02 2012

FIDIC – behind the times when it comes to collaboration?

FIDIC red book

(A guest post by document control manager Edward Surgeon, partly stimulated by my previous coverage of contract change management features on construction collaboration platforms.) As a document control manager, a big part of my job is to maximise user adoption of our collaboration system across our projects. This means that my radar is always scanning …

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May 11 2012

From email to BIM

In the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on  25 April. The second was yesterday to the Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Constructing Excellence Club at …

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May 03 2012

Viewpoint acquires Construction Imaging

Viewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and it was clear they were keen to extend the scope of their core platform to …

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Mar 20 2012

Mace adopts BIW Commercial Management

Woking, Surrey, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies has re-launched its Commercial Management application (formerly BIW Financial Control), with Mace one of the first major construction businesses deploying the module (see news release). Essentially, BIW Commercial Management supports both site-based staff with responsibility for overall management and control of individual project finances and …

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Feb 09 2012

Unit4 combining collaboration, ERP and BIM in the cloud

The 2012 Unit4 customer conference this week at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre incorporated the annual user event for users of Unit4 Collaboration (formerly Business Collaborator), and there were some significant announcements both about the structure of that business and about the future roadmap for its collaboration platform. I attended the event wondering how relevant the …

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Feb 03 2012

ERP vendor Viewpoint viewing collaboration space

While not a household name in the European construction ERP market, Viewpoint is eyeing opportunities across the Atlantic and knows a thing or two about the collaboration space. “How come you dominate your marketplace and yet I’ve never heard of you?” – This was just one of the questions I asked Viewpoint Construction Software CEO Jay …

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Jan 25 2012

Cadac Organice sounding bullish

Preliminary results released by Cadac Organice suggest the Netherlands-based vendor of Microsoft SharePoint-based solutions for engineering document management had a successful 2011. It highlights its introduction of a cloud-based solution – discussed in October 2011 with Gert-Jan de Kieviet, right, following his recruitment from Sword-CTSpace – and also mentions that David Parry, former CTO and co-founder …

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Jan 24 2012

TrackerPlus – managing BREEAM online

Thanks to Building4Change and the BRE Group e-newsletter, I see that TrackerPlus, “a fully integrated online BREEAM project management system,” has been recognised by BRE Global for its ability to streamline the BREEAM assessment process for members of the design team and allowing assessors to submit their assessments directly from the system to BREEAM for quality assurance …

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Jan 18 2012

EADOC growing

It’s not just Aconex that is seeing signs of recovery in the SaaS construction collaboration market (previous post). California-based EADOC Software says it grew its revenues 25% in 2011, and its customer base grew by more than 40%. Founder and CEO Eric Law said: “We had a good year, and 2012 is looking even better, …

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