Extranet Evolution

Not a free press release service

Extranet Evolution — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:30 GMT

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...(read more)

The conject interview

Extranet Evolution — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:48 GMT

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...(read more)

StoreData trading in line with management expectations

Extranet Evolution — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:57 GMT

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...(read more)

"A tough year for BIW"

Extranet Evolution — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:31:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Contract terminated

Extranet Evolution — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:17:17 GMT

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......(read more)

ADePT Management

Extranet Evolution — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:56 GMT

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...(read more)

Asite Autumn 09 release

Extranet Evolution — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:29:52 GMT

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...(read more)

WorkCast tie-up with 4Projects?

Extranet Evolution — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:06:17 GMT

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...(read more)

Business Collaborator growth slows

Extranet Evolution — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:37:42 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Extranet Evolution — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:43:02 GMT

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...(read more)

New look for Sarcophagus

Extranet Evolution — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:35:37 GMT

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...(read more)

Aconex APIs and an iPhone app "in development"

Extranet Evolution — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:59:51 GMT

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...(read more)

Howdy, Howzee

Extranet Evolution — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Collaboration at heart of future ICT, says SCRI

Extranet Evolution — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:45:59 GMT

(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....(read more)

Constructware update

Extranet Evolution — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:52:21 GMT

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...(read more)