Aconex acquires Conject – reaction
While Conject reassures its customers, competitors (past and present) react to Aconex’s acquisition of the Europe-based SaaS collaboration vendor. After the 17 March 2016 announcement of Conject‘s...
View ArticleCombinder targets close-out documentation
Combinder is solely focused on close-out PDF documentation, providing an alternative to SaaS collaboration vendors offering O&M compilation tools as part of a wider system. The compilation of...
View ArticleZuuse targeting BIM to FM opportunity
Australian start-up Zuuse ambitiously aims to shake up the facilities management market, bridging the gap from BIM to FM. While we have seen a considerable shift over the past 20 years from mainly...
View ArticleViewpoint restructured and growing
Viewpoint CEO Manolis Kotzabasakis says construction needs to change, and believes his company is well-placed to lead industry adoption of SaaS-based ‘field to back office information on the go’....
View ArticleAconex UK growth makes Conject deal look timely
Latest results from Aconex (UK) Ltd suggest the March 2016 Conject acquisition was timely, with the Australian giant’s European operation lagging behind regional rivals. I have monitored the...
View Articlethink project! acquires Austrian sales partner
Almost exactly three months after Aconex acquired the Germany-based Conject business (post), the latter’s near-neighbour in Munich, think project!, has acquired 70% of its Austrian sales partner...
View ArticleTIM: The Inspection Manager
Almost since we first started to use mobile phones on construction sites, we have sought to use them to manage defects and conduct inspections (I was at BIW, later Conject, when it launched its Windows...
View ArticleCollaboration, BIM and FM
Last week’s ThinkBIM conference focused on the transition of data from construction to facilities management. FM is getting more involved with BIM from the earliest stages of a project, and will...
View ArticleSecure SaaS without passwords, via Secure Cloudlink
UK-based startup Secure Cloudlink (headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey) has a unique and US-patented product that eliminates the use of passwords and is designed to secure cloud / SaaS applications....
View ArticleOracle building its construction offering
A Construction Index news story today about the Bank of England’s decision yesterday to reduce the central bank interest rate to 0.25% highlighted once again the UK construction industry’s poor record...
View ArticleBIM Assure: cloud-based model checking
In the upFront.Zine, Ralph Grabowski has a great article about a cloud-based BIM checking service, BIM Assure. The feature was written with Marty Chobot, VP of marketing at the system’s developer, a...
View ArticleConject deal boosts Aconex revenue growth
Last month (23 August), Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration software vendor Aconex announced its financial results for the year to 30 June 2016, revealing underlying...
View Articlethink project! targets Spain in JV with ProjectCenter
Munich, Germany-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor think project! has established a joint venture with Madrid-based ProjectCenter to target customers in Spain, Portugal and Latin...
View ArticleCreatemaster targets project handover
London-based Createmaster describe themselves as “experts in process led, construction information handover management”. The business provides a combination of hands-on document management services and...
View ArticleSaas budget management with Budget4cast
Launched in the US at the recent Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) conference in San Diego, California, is a new cloud-based project budget management application, Budget4cast....
View ArticleThink Project! strengthens European base
Think Project! CEO Thomas Bachmaier is optimistic about his business’s prospects in the increasingly competitive European SaaS construction collaboration technology market. The Munich, Germany-based...
View ArticleViewpoint UK revenues up 48% in 2015
2015 was a bumper year for Viewpoint‘s EMEA-based collaboration business, with revenues up 48% and a return to operational profitability. According to accounts filed at UK Companies House, total...
View ArticleAconex forecasts 39% growth
Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor, Aconex, provided a trading update covering the quarter ending 30 September 2016 on Monday (25 October announcement). Gross cash...
View ArticleConject UK grew 12% in 2015
Following the parent group’s March 2016 acquisition by Aconex, I overlooked the July 2016 publication of Conject UK‘s financial results for the year ending 31 December 2015. These show the Woking,...
View ArticleSaaS collaboration and cyber-security
December 2016’s ThinkBIM in Leeds provided an occasionally frightening view of just how vulnerable the built environment might be to cyber attack. It also highlighted how SaaS collaboration platforms...
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