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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

• 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

• Business Collaborator growth slows

  Business Collaborator, the Reading, Berkshire-based provider of construction collaboration technologies (and other applications including an ethical supplier database, SEDEX) has just reported its financial results for the year to 31 December 2008 at... Posted Nov 06 2009, 06:37 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Extranet

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

  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... Posted Nov 05 2009, 04:43 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, Extranet

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• SaaS as a software protection strategy

  Reading WorldCAD Access and The CAD Industry blogs this morning, I learned about the latest developments in a court case brought by Autodesk to stop an eBay trader, Tim Vernor, from selling second-hand CAD software. Ignoring the complex issues relating... Posted Oct 02 2009, 08:54 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Legal, Blogs

• 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