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• Collaboration at heart of future ICT, says SCRI

  (This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog.) This morning I discovered a SCRI Research Report, Future Generation of IT (PDF), published in June and reporting on discussions held at a 'vision planning workshop' hosted.... Posted Nov 02 2009, 03:45 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, SaaS, People issues, Internet, 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

• 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

• 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

• CAD in the cloud

  I have talked in this blog a number of times about the potential for design applications to be delivered as online solutions (CADaaS, BIMaaS), where the application and associated data is hosted 'in the cloud', and some of my designer... Read... Posted Sep 18 2009, 06:37 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet

• Keeping an Eye on Woobius

  I wrote about the low-cost simple collaboration application Woobius earlier this year (first here, then here), and they've remained on my radar ever since, partly because of their participation in one of this year's Be2camp events (in Liverpool... Posted Sep 14 2009, 01:07 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Extranet, Internet, Blogs

• BuildOnline's UK downward drift

  Partly out of historical interest, I continue to monitor the company reporting of BuildOnline, a construction collaboration technology vendor which is now part of the French-owned Sword Group, today trading as Sword CTSpace and offering a portfolio of... Posted Sep 03 2009, 03:05 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, People issues, Extranet, Internet, Blogs

• From PLM and social media, to AEC design

  I have been monitoring conversations about social media among some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) commentators, and a post by Desktop Engineering's Kenneth Wong - What PLM Can Learn from Social Media - has lingered in a browser... Posted Aug 05 2009, 07:54 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Internet, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Google Wave

  The web is abuzz with excitement this morning about Google Wave (see this great summary at Mashable), Google's new real-time communication platform "coming later this year". It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat... Posted May 29 2009, 09:06 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0

• Engineering the future of SaaS

  I have always believed that the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) world can learn lessons from application of technologies in other market sectors, and so it is gratifying to see that debates about moving design applications to a Software... Posted Apr 23 2009, 01:42 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, ROI/benefits, Internet