Tag: construction collaboration technology

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 It depends… Calculating this is fraught with difficulties: First, some of the smaller vendors do not publish full …

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MoJ selects 4Projects 4BIM

The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has selected 4Projects 4BIM model server to support Level 2 BIM across all its future development projects, the Newcastle-based SaaS collaboration technology vendor (a subsidiary of Viewpoint Construction Software) has announced. This is a significant step by a major government department as the MoJ is one of those leading the UK public sector push …

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Plangrid pushes simplicity

Plangrid Android drawing view

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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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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ConjectMI – mobile inspections – launched

“The UK’s first fully integrated enterprise-level solution for defects and inspection processes” Or maybe not. On 1 May 2014, I attended a London breakfast briefing about Conject‘s new mobile defects management and inspection toolset, then somewhat cryptically branded “OPR6”. I have just received a news release from the Woking office of the Anglo-German SaaS construction software …

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4Projects: the future is cloud-based everything

4Projects by Viewpoint - blue

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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Think Project! updates – and integrates

thinkproject-mobile version check

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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Marketing moves at McLaren

McLaren VP SaaS, Philippe Michardiere

Further to the marketing moves I mentioned in April, McLaren Software has been making more changes to make its engineering information management (EIM) business more responsive to the needs of its different types of customers, appointing news sales and marketing personnel and creating teams dedicated to each of its key markets – on-premise engineering document …

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Plan2Finish marks new step for SmartBuilder

Plan2Finish logo

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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FieldLens closes $8m funding round

US-based FieldLens gets funding boost to grow adoption of its social construction collaboration platform FieldLens, the New York City, US-based developer of a mobile field management tool for the construction industry, today announced that it had raised $8 million in capital in a Series A round led by Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners. The financing will …

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