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• Top 10 Construction IT trends

  This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration..... Posted Mar 11 2010, 01:10 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, People issues, Internet, Web 2.0, Telecoms

• Still keeping an Eye on Woobius

  I met up with Bob Leung from Woobius a couple of times last week (including at the launch of StickyWorld's Collaboration Cafe at London's Building Centre - pwcom post), and he updated me on progress with Woobius Eye (see post).... Read More..... Posted Mar 10 2010, 10:53 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Web 2.0

• Maybe there's a SaaS for that?

  Writing a "ten construction IT trends" feature for a UK construction publication this week, I found myself reflecting again on tablet PCs (partly stimulated by the launch of Apple's iPad), and on the rise and rise of smartphones. I found... Posted Feb 27 2010, 12:40 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Telecoms

• StickyWorld and the 'Collaboration Cafe'

  About 18 months ago I met Slider Studio architect Michael Kohn when he presented at the first Be2camp event I co-organised, at London's Building Centre. I have remained in contact with him ever since (he spoke about principles of democratic... Read... Posted Feb 23 2010, 11:34 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0

• Exit Business Collaborator - enter UNIT4 Collaboration Software Ltd

  With the parent company, Unit 4 Agresso NV, announcing a groupwide name change to UNIT4, UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator will be rebranded as Unit4 Collaboration Software Ltd with effect from 1 February (see news... Posted Jan 28 2010, 12:15 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS

• 20% of firms will own no IT assets by 2012

  A fifth of enterprises will hold no IT assets by 2012 as cloud computing and mobile working practices become commonplace, Gartner predicts (reports Information Age). Technologies such as 'cloud computing' and virtualisation within the enterprise... Posted Jan 21 2010, 04:49 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Telecoms

• The Bricsnet interview

  Having been impressed by Bricsnet's marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog... Posted Jan 18 2010, 09:20 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, Extranet, Internet

• Still coming soon: tender.ly

  In October last year, I chanced upon tender.ly, "web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors". The service, from Sydney-Australia-based Constrex, was... Posted Jan 18 2010, 08:10 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality

• "BIW on the back foot?"

  Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK's Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies (see BIW on the back foot?). He references this...... Posted Jan 11 2010, 06:08 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, People issues, Extranet, Blogs

• Box.net and Motion Computing target construction

  I use Box.net as an online file back-up and storage solution, and chanced upon a blog post by Box.net's senior business development manager Matt Soldo talking about a new reseller relationship with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, who produce... Posted Jan 05 2010, 10:31 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Blogs

• Asite keeps its community updated

  As a web 2.0 enthusiast, it's good to see UK construction technology vendor Asite using its community forum to talk to users about its plans, and Tweeting about them (see post). Through Twitter, I saw a link to an update... Read More... Posted Dec 02 2009, 09:05 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser

  [This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government's first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. Former Davis Langdon quantity surveyor... Posted Nov 30 2009, 09:55 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, People issues, Extranet, Web 2.0

• Rob Phillpot on Aconex, APIs and acquisitions

  Following my recent posts on Aconex's API announcement and its 2009 financial results, I spent 40 minutes quizzing Rob Phillpot (right), company co-founder and General Manager, Product, about planned developments of the Aconex construction collaboration... Posted Nov 30 2009, 09:19 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, People issues

• SaaS to grow (again)

  The Construction Software State of the Industry Report, produced by US-based firm Software Advice, is highlighting five trends (three of them upwards), relating to software buying habits, and suggests that the current recession makes Software-as-a-Service... Posted Nov 25 2009, 12:51 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Extranet, Internet

• Project Bluestreak

  Autodesk's AEC division has just launched an experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, aimed at "accelerating building information modeling through the open exchange of design information and ideas between desktop applications... Posted Nov 23 2009, 10:50 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0