Extranet Evolution

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

StoreData trading in line with management expectations

Retail fit-out specialist Styles & Wood yesterday issued an Interim Management Statement relating to the period from 1 July 2009 to 18 November 2009, saying (among other things) that its specialist collaboration business StoreData was trading "in...

Posted Nov 20 2009, 09:00 AM by Extranet Evolution

Filed under: Collaboration, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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