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• Not a free press release service

  I don't republish company's press releases on this blog. Last week I received an email asking: "We are interested to publish our company news in Extranet Evolution; I could not navigate the place to find the details of how to... Read More... Posted Nov 20 2009, 03:20 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Blogs, Web 2.0

• 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

• Contract terminated

  UK construction trade weekly Contract Journal is to shut down at the end of the month. An email from parent company Reed Business Information says: ... the end of this month will see the closure of Contract Journal and its... Read More... Posted Nov 12 2009, 01:17 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Marketing, AEC, Business/Financial

• 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

• New look for Sarcophagus

  It has a new logo (left), the main website of Yorkshire, UK-based technology vendor Sarcophagus has recently been revamped, and the company has also started (very occasionally) using Twitter. However, the new logo hasn't yet been applied across all... Posted Nov 05 2009, 12:35 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC

• 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

• 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 -... Read More... Posted Oct 01 2009, 05:08 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS

• 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

• 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