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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

• "A tough year for BIW"

  Duncan Mactear of 4Projects has forwarded me an article about [my former employer] BIW Technologies, published recently to subscribers to Megabuyte.com (an "invaluable source of market intelligence for IT companies, their advisers and investors providing... Posted Nov 17 2009, 08:31 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, People issues, Extranet, Legal

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Asite community revisited

  Back in June, I wrote about construction collaboration vendor Asite's revamped website and its new social media features. Three months later, I had a quick look to see how the Asite community has been developing.... Blog posts have been a... Read... Posted Sep 22 2009, 10:24 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Functionality, People issues, Extranet, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Sword CTSpace in recovery mode?

  After looking at BuildOnline (UK) Ltd's 2007 performance recently (see BuildOnline's UK downward drift), I have been researching the recent performance of the whole Sword CTSpace group (in effect, the combined BuildOnline/Citadon operation acquired... Posted Sep 07 2009, 09:07 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, People issues

• 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

• Good numbers from 4Projects

  Latest results, for the 12 months up to 31 March 2009, show that UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects enjoyed its most successful year to date. According to the latest returns submitted to Companies House, revenues grew 24%... Posted Sep 03 2009, 01:07 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• 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

• AECcollaborators Twitter League

  Following my post about how some providers of construction collaboration technologies are beginning to incorporate social media tools and techniques into their communications, I have set up a Twitter League to monitor how many companies and people in... Posted Jul 29 2009, 11:30 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• Koenig leaves Sword CTSpace

  Howard Koenig has now officially left Sword CTSpace to return to the workforce management software sphere, joining Aruspex, specialists in strategic workforce planning, as CEO (CEN story; word of his departure did, however, creep out prematurely in February... Posted Jul 06 2009, 10:47 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, People issues

• Putting the social into AEC development

  I have been following posts on a blog hosted by PTC, a vendor of product development technology solutions to 'discrete manufacturers'. Its product lifecycle management (PLM) applications are widely used in the industrial, high-tech, aerospace... Posted Jun 22 2009, 12:17 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, People issues, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors

  Today I have been hearing from well-placed sources that Sunderland, UK-based construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has started a wave of redundancies (I've no idea of the scale of the downsizing - 4Projects had about 44 staff this time last... Posted Jun 05 2009, 12:42 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, Business/Financial, BIW, People issues, Blogs, Web 2.0