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Nov 05 2009

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

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, SaaS, Vendors
5 November 2009

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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Dec 05 2008

Economic Climate Will Accelerate SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, SaaS
5 December 2008

The title of an online article, Economic Climate Will Accelerate Cloud Computing, is actually misleading (the content is all about Software-as-a-Service, ie: more “in-the-cloud” than “cloud computing” per se), but it makes some persuasive points about the attractions of SaaS in a recession: “In an economic downturn, ‘do more with less’ and quick ROI behavior …