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• The conject interview

  Having recently received a comment from Chris Brandt, CTO at conject, I thought it was high time that I took a more detailed look at this construction and real estate collaboration vendor. Based in Munich, Germany, but with operations across... Read More... Posted Nov 20 2009, 12:51 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Extranet

• ADePT Management

  I attended the November meeting of the London Constructing Excellence Club last night, and heard a presentation by Andy Newton of Adept Management, talking about the Analytical Design Planning Technique (ADePT) and supporting software and services. I... Posted Nov 11 2009, 05:27 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Web 2.0

• Asite Autumn 09 release

  UK construction collaboration vendor Asite has issued its Autumn 09 Release, says a website notice dated 6 November 2009. Three hightlights I picked out: New maps "mash-ups" - using either a Google Maps portlet or a Microsoft Virtual Earth Read... Posted Nov 09 2009, 05:29 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Extranet, Web 2.0

• 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... Posted Nov 09 2009, 01:06 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, People issues

• 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... Posted Nov 05 2009, 11:59 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality

• 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... Posted Nov 02 2009, 06:24 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• Constructware update

  In May this year there was some online speculation about Autodesk's continued enthusiasm for its Constructware Software-as-a-service platform (see posts here and here) prompting hasty denials from Rick Rundall pointing out that they would hardly be... Posted Oct 29 2009, 01:52 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality

• Meridian user forum

  Thanks to a news release published on AECcafe.com, I have learned that Meridian Systems, US-based provider of project management solutions including Prolog and Proliance, has created an online forum for users of its products. The platform - the screenshot... Posted Oct 29 2009, 01:36 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Functionality, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• Bye-bye BT Workspace, Hello Glasscubes

  In early 2007, I wrote about BT Workspace, a Software-as-a-Service that the UK telecoms giant was offering to small and medium-sized businesses. Built on a modified version of the Microsoft SharePoint platform by US company SMBLive, BT Worskspace offered... Posted Oct 29 2009, 12:37 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Extranet, Web 2.0

• Memoori upgrade

  In August 2008, I wrote about Memoori (see AEC-specific search), and having since met the company's founder Jim McHale a few times (most recently last week), I can say the product, while still a little raw in places, is developing... Read More... Posted Oct 23 2009, 12:02 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, AEC, Functionality, Blogs, Web 2.0

• ArchiCAD 13 and BIM collaboration

  Over the past month, I have heard and read quite a bit about Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 13: First, I read Lachmi Khemlani's AECbytes review, telling me that, for the first time, a commercially available building information modelling (BIM) application... Posted Oct 19 2009, 06:42 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Internet, Telecoms

• e-Grou Free Edition launched

  Mentioned earlier this summer (see post), Portugal based e-grou launched its free Software-as-a-Service document management system yesterday (30 September). Designed as a stepping stone towards adoption of the more fully-featured Professional and Enterprise... Posted Oct 01 2009, 01:42 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality

• Coming soon: tender.ly

  Found through a Twitter connection: It's almost ready. tender.ly is elegant and powerful web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors. It's software that... Posted Oct 01 2009, 11:58 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0

• Woobius wins £23,000 at PICNIC

  I wrote again about Woobius a couple of weeks ago, noting that its real-time mobile collaboration solution, Woobius Eye, had reached the final of the Vodafone Mobile Click 2009 competition. Last Friday, in a Dragons Den-style appearance before judges... Posted Oct 01 2009, 10:49 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, Web 2.0

• A first look in the Incite Toolbox

  In June (as I posted), I met Sean Kaye and Michael Baker of Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Incite. We talked about Incite's new project collaboration tool and platform, Incite Keystone, amid a wide-ranging chat about collaboration... Posted Sep 22 2009, 07:05 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Blogs, Web 2.0