Mar 26 2013
Could ‘intelligent’ software programs revolutionise hitherto laborious document control processes? I was recently contacted by Ritesh Tripathi of TransBit Technologies, a software development company based in Hyderabad in India. Its lead product, CollabWrite, is a web-based enterprise content management system which he says is used extensively to capture project records and automate workflows among the multiple …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/03/transbit-technologies-develops-robotic-document-control-assistants/
Jan 22 2013
The latest annual report from the London-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Asite shows revenues grew almost 10% in the year to 30 June 2012, while the company remained profitable for a third consecutive year. Its latest report and accounts (PDF), plus a blog post from CEO Tony Ryan, say revenue increased by 9.6% to £3.193m (2011: …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/01/asite-grows-revenues-10-per-cent/
May 01 2012
Copenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office in India, it is now starting an operation in southern Africa, where it sees great …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2012/05/docia-opens-south-africa-office/
Dec 16 2011
In its final year as an independent business, Woking, UK-based construction collaboration technology provider BIW Technologies continued to be affected by the effects of the global financial crisis on the wider construction industry. Its latest annual report and accounts, for the 15 months to 31 December 2010, show a turnover of £6.59m (up from £5.934m …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/12/biw-still-hampered-by-tough-market-conditions/
Oct 04 2011
Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (‘Byggeweb’ in the Nordic market) has started to operate in India through a newly established partnership with Chennai-based software provider Ram Caddsys Pvt Ltd. This announcement follows August’s news of a new project in New Delhi for the Danish Embassy, with VV Architects from Chennai, local contractors and WSP …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/10/docia-sets-up-in-india/
Nov 06 2010
Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Incite is developing a lot of new and innovative functionality, and – having grown its business in south-east Asia – is, as I predicted last year, inching towards establishing a presence in Europe. My latest meeting (previous – post) with Michael Baker, Incite’s general manager (technology), included a first encounter …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2010/11/incite-innovates/
Nov 01 2010
Monitoring the construction collaboration technology businesses formerly known as Buildonline and Citadon since the combined CTSpace operation was acquired by France-based Sword Group SA in late 2007 (post) is not easy, particularly when companies get merged with other, unrelated operations. From a close reading of various annual reports and some company feedback, I believe the …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2010/11/business-steady-at-sword-ctspace/
Sep 23 2010
Earlier this week at the RIBA in London I had coffee with Ben Tellin, a trained architect and managing director of Yechte Consulting. His company, with bases in London and Bangalore, India, provides off-shore outsourcing services to architects and engineers (often adding an international dimension to the network of people already collaborating on a UK …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2010/09/yechte-consulting-managing-offshore-design-costs/
May 25 2010
Last week I travelled to Brentford and the London offices of Sword CTSpace to learn more about the company’s FusionLive platform. After blogging about the product’s launch last month, I had been invited by business unit director John Pomeroy to meet some of the FusionLive team (including George Britton, Andre Gunter and Mathieu Pollet) and …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2010/05/ctspace-talks-about-fusionlive/
Jan 11 2010
Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK’s Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies. In BIW on the back foot?, he references this blog and makes a few statements that I would like to comment upon…. I was …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2010/01/biw-on-the-back-foot/
nima’s That Information Management podcast
