Tag: construction collaboration technology

Jan 25 2010

Filegenius – yet more low-cost file-sharing targeting AEC

Last week, I had lunch with a long-time friend in the construction collaboration technology sector, and we talked about low and no-cost file-sharing. It is, we agreed, easy to take a generic file-sharing system and claim that it is invaluable for users in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, but a lot harder to actually …

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Jan 14 2010

Asite reaches profitability

It’s taken a while, around nine years in fact, but UK construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has finally reached profitability. According to unaudited figures in a trading statement released on its website today, the London-based company had gross revenues of £2.079m in 2009 (up 10% from £1.89m in 2008), and partly by driving down operating …

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Jan 07 2010

Show us the numbers, Cadac

I have railed before (Give us the figures, Cadweb!) about construction collaboration technology vendors trumpeting how much their business has grown without actually giving us any figures to substantiate their hype. Latest offender is Netherlands-based Cadac who developed Organice, a document management solution based on Microsoft’s SharePoint system (see post). A Cadac Organice BV news …

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Dec 16 2009

Business Collaborator goes mobile too

UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor, Business Collaborator has just launched BC Mobile, “a new module for mobile devices that will enable users of its BC 5.3 project collaboration service to access files and information and to action tasks on the go”. According to today’s news release: “BC Mobile allows users of internet enabled mobile devices …

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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 …

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Nov 09 2009

WorkCast tie-up with 4Projects?

According to a report in local newspapers in north-east England, a Durham-based webcasting firm, WorkCast, has “received £850,000 of investment to develop software it believes will become the future of video conferencing”. What attracted me to this news story was that 10-strong Leighton Group subsidiary WorkCast is headed by Gerard Callaghan, ex-sales director at construction …

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Nov 05 2009

Recession hits Aconex order book, it sheds staff, but still grows

Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has just signed off its accounts for the year ending 30 June 2009, and they show another year of growth, albeit slower than in previous years (see Aconex reports…, 2008, and Aconex results hit by legal row, 2007). This is no surprise, of course. The global recession has …

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Nov 05 2009

Aconex APIs and an iPhone app “in development”

According to a news release issued today, Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has released a fully-featured set of Web Services APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to enable integration between its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system and other software products used by its clients. The APIs also allow Aconex or third parties to build additional applications for desktops …

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Nov 02 2009

Howdy, Howzee

At Be2camp@WorkingBuildings last month, I met Tuomas Saarelainen who told me to have a look at his Helsinki, Finland-based company Mobimus and its service howzee.info – which I have just done. It is an intriguing concept, but currently only sketchily described (and with no website screenshots to give some idea of what the service looks …

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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 …

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