Blog feed- Thinking BIM and FMThinkBIM is helping formulate industry thinking on BIM for FM, but we need more integrated, cross-disciplinary approaches. It is now almost exactly two years since the UK government published its Construction Strategy committing to the adoption of BIM by 2016 … Continue reading → […]
- Mclaren launches CAFM Explorer OnAirThe Facilities Show is at the NEC in Birmingham, UK this week (last day today) – a good place for firms to make announcements to their FM audiences. This week, for example, McLaren Software – describing itself as a provider … Continue reading → […]
- BIM for infrastructure event from Construct ITAfter yesterday’s post, a timely event announcement…. Construct IT, in partnership with Network Rail and COMIT, is holding its Spring event on Thursday, 20 June 2013 in Manchester, focusing on “Deriving value through BIM in the delivery of Infrastructure Projects“. … Continue reading → […]
- Learning BIM at the Bentley Crossrail AcademyThe Bentley Crossrail Academy is developing and promoting BIM best practice in the £15.9 billion London project’s supply chain that will be shared by other UK mega-projects. Recently, Iain MisKimmin (senior industry consultant at Bentley Systems UK, manager of its … Continue reading → […]
- Conject CEO reclaims SaaS second placeForget the investigations, an email has arrived from Conject CEO Colin Smith, mentioned in yesterday’s post about think project!, re-asserting the rival Munich, Germany-based group’s claim to be second largest SaaS vendor in the architecture, engineering, construction and operator space: … Continue reading → […]
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Tag Archives: Conject
16 reasons why nobody yet dominates the construction SaaS collaboration sector
Despite widespread adoption of SaaS-based construction collaboration platforms and wider acceptance of SaaS, no company has achieved real dominance across any major regional, national or vertical AEC market. Why? [Warning: this is a longer-than-usual post!] By revenues and (notwithstanding recent … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Aconex, AEC, architecture, Asite, Australia, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, BIW, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Buzzsaw, CAD, cloud computing, collaboration, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Dubai, Engineering, ERP, FM, Francisco Partners, Grazer, Hitler, HR, London, marketing, mobile, Nakheel, ProjectWise, recession, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK, Unit4 Collaboration, US, Woobius
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Reflections on the 4Projects acquisition
Having had a couple of days to research and reflect on yesterdays’s announcement of Viewpoint’s acquisition of 4Projects (post) and to discuss it with industry friends, I thought I’d try to sum up a few strands. Deal background While Viewpoint … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, Andy Ward, architecture, Asite, August Equity, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cadweb, collaboration, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Engineering, Idox, McLaren Software, mobile, SaaS, Sarcophagus, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, TA Associates, Tony Ryan, Twitter, UK, Unit4 Collaboration, US, Viewpoint, YouTube
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UK exclusive: 4Projects acquired by US ERP vendor ViewPoint
Sunderland, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects has been acquired (for an undisclosed amount) by Portland, Oregon-based financial systems vendor Viewpoint Construction Software. Almost exactly a year after I talked to Viewpoint executives about their aspirations for the US enterprise resource planning … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, ACS Connect, AEC, architecture, Asite, Australia, BIM, BIW, building information modelling, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Construction Imaging, Engineering, ERP, Jay Haladay, Matt Harris, MBO, mobile, recession, Richard Vertigan, SaaS, Sage CRE, Software-as-a-Service, UK, UNIT4, US, Viewpoint
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Dome Connect and iSnag
London-based project commissioning management consultancy Dome Consulting offers two related software products. It says its Dome Connect software is used for project collaboration, BIM management, snagging and defect management, commissioning management, and operation and management (O&M) manuals. It also offers a … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, Asite, BIW, BREEAM, Canary Wharf Contractors, cloud computing, collaboration, Conject, construction collaboration technology, Construction Computing Awards, CTSpace, Docia, Dome Connect, Dome Consulting, Grazer, ISG, iSnag, Lend Lease, Mace, McLaren Software, mobile, Newforma, O&M, Overbury, Sir Robert McAlpine, SmartBuilder1, Snaglist, SnagR, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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Conject “to grow 15-20 per cent” claims CEO
Conject did lose ground to 4Projects in the UK in a “flat” 2011, Conject group CEO Colin Smith admitted to me on Friday, but the firm is now more competitive, he said, having just enjoyed a “monster December” to round … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Andrew Wainwright, architecture, BIM, Colin Smith, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, EcoBuild, Engineering, FM, ILM, London, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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iExtranet from Paris-based oodrive
I had a demonstration of iExtranet, a competitively-priced SaaS building and construction solution from Paris-based cloud storage company oodrive.com, this morning. The company mainly provides back-up services and online file-sharing solutions, and the iExtranet platform, which also has a variant for … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, architecture, Asite, cloud computing, collaboration, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, extranet, France, iExtranet, iPDF, marketing, mobile, oodrive, Paris, QR code, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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4Projects growing again…
The latest SaaS collaboration vendor to report on its financial performance is Sunderland, UK-based provider 4Projects, whose latest (abbreviated) annual return to Companies House covers the year to 31 March 2012. CFO Chris Baty was happy to provide me with … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4BIM, 4Projects, 4Retail, Aconex, AEC, BIM, Chris Baty, Conject, construction collaboration technology, project collaboration, recession, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK, US
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Conject “challenged”
According to its 2011 annual report and accounts, Conject Ltd (the UK-based SaaS collaboration and project control vendor formerly known as BIW Technologies) found 2011 “challenging.” Its report, filed at Companies House in October 2012, echoes almost word for word … Continue reading
NEC3 contract management software offer
Have just received a gushing email promotion from NEC Contracts promoting the contract software management capabilities of its licensed content partners, SaaS construction collaboration platform vendors 4Projects and Conject (appointed almost two years ago). Apparently, “2012 has been a fantastic year” for NEC3 Contract … Continue reading
Trimble Buildings pushes SaaS, BIM and whole lifecycle approach
In late 2006, Trimble acquired Meridian Systems, a US-based provider of project management and document collaboration solutions (post), as part of a strategy of connecting construction sites through tighter integration of construction process information. For Trimble, that deal meant its … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Accubid, AEC, architecture, Ben Malone, BImopedia, COBie, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, DBO, Engineering, Geene Alhady, IFC, Jon Fingland, McLaren Software, Meridian Systems, Open BIM, Plancal, Proliance, Prolog, Prolog Sky, Protalk, QuickPen, SaaS, SketchUp, Software-as-a-Service, Trimble, UK, US, Vico, WinEst
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