McLaren to sponsor the leading on-line project planning community.

London, UK – November 15, 2011 – McLaren Software has today announced that its parent company, UK based Idox plc, has acquired CTSpace from the Group to create the largest enterprise class engineering document management and control software company.
Under the McLaren Software brand the combined product portfolio provides on premise engineering document management and control applications, complemented by the FusionLive cloud based project collaboration solutions to owner operators and EPCs in asset intensive industries. Enterprise Engineer™ and FusionEnterprise are accredited by EMC®, IBM® and Oracle® reflecting the increasing industry support for specialist software companies creating applications for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platforms.

2011 Nuclear Information Management Conference, 14 - 17 Aug 2011, Las Vegas

CTSpace, PG&E, Ameren, EMC, and IBM represented among attendees of 2011 Nuclear Information Management Conference. Discussion to surround nuclear information and records management topics, including hot-button issues like the Cloud and data security. CTSpace’s Tim Fleet to deliver a presentation on PDF rendition and business process automation.

Strabag Units, Inform N°21 - "Design PLanning with FusionLive: Efficient Design Management"

Stacks of blueprints and designs, hundreds of documents, and yet another short-notice change in design by the client. It’s getting difficult to keep track of up-to-dateness, status, and approval of construction plans. The solution: Fusion Live – a Group software for efficient design management.

Water technologies pioneer IDE Technologies Ltd chooses CTSpace’s Engineering Document Management Collaboration solution for 3 major desalination projects in Israel, China and Cyprus

Brentford, UK – 10th June, 2011 – CTSpace, global provider of document management and collaboration applications for the construction and engineering industries, has been selected by water technologies pioneer IDE Technologies to provide a document management solution for three major desalination projects:

A unique approach that allows companies using several ECM systems to merge their engineering content

San Francisco, USA – February 28, 2011 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, announced today that the latest release of FusionEnterprise will be able to combine engineering content from separate EMC Documentum® and Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 systems (...)
 

VP of Products to deliver a presentation on the ability of CTSpace solutions to reduce the costs and risks associated with managing the technical content of an oil and gas asset.

Brentford, UK – March 22, 2011– CTSpace, the global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, will attend the Oil and Gas Technology Forum in Amsterdam on Wednesday 13^th to Friday 15^th April.

CTSpace VP Products Tim Fleet will deliver a presentation to the conference on the ability of CTSpace solutions to reduce the costs and risks associated with managing the technical content of an oil and gas asset. Tim Fleet will discuss engineering document control, project and programme collaboration management, reducing risk and ensuring compliance, and specialist industry asset management solutions.

Tame the paper tiger!

Today’s Oil & Gas projects often involve multiple partners and thousands of pages of documentation. In this article published by WorldExpro, Tim Fleet of CTSpace and Clyde Smith of Mustang tell Rod James how entreprise-wide document management systems can optimise workflow, cut costs and act as the glue that holds a rapidly expanding company together.

Cloud-based collaboration solution FusionLive to help break through the increasing compliance pressures that characterise that kind of complex development projects

San Francisco, USA – January 24, 2010 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, has been selected by Citystars Properties, Egypt’s pioneer in developing large scale integrated mixed-use projects. CTSpace will provide document management and project collaboration solutions for the construction of 3 large-scale urban and coastal resorts projects in Egypt. (...)

San Francisco, USA – January 30, 2011 – CTSpace, a global leader in providing document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, provided advanced engineering document management solutions to support the construction of the A65 motorway in France. The A65 motorway opened the 14th of December 2010, after nearly four years of work. (...)
 

IBM-sponsored ceremony and in-depth product presentation held at the Moscow-based University on December 1st

San Francisco, USA – December 23, 2010 – CTSpace, a global leader in providing document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, signed an official agreement on December 1st with the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas to install the engineering content management solution FusionEnterprise on the university’s systems. FusionEnterprise has been adapted to Russian standards by specialists of the Gubkin Russian State University. (...)
 

San Francisco, USA – November 5, 2010 – On 25th October, CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, was selected as one of three Best of Showcase Finalists at the IBM Information On Demand 2010 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The other finalist was Thunderhead Inc., a fast-growing CRM software company. JCB Partners, a performance management consulting firm and frequent IBM award winner, took home the top prize. (...)

Brentford, UK – October 18, 2010 – CTSpace will attend and deliver a presentation at the ICT4Construction conference, a project collaboration technology conference for the construction industry held on October 28th at the Central Hall Westminster in London. (...)

San Francisco, USA – October 8, 2010 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow management applications for the construction and engineering industries, has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Best of Showcase Award at the IBM Information On Demand Conference 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The "Best in Show" category recognizes those IBM Business Partners who have adopted and leveraged the latest Information Management technology to demonstrate a unique and powerful Information On Demand solution. (...)

CADTop provides integration of AutoCAD/MicroStation with Oracle Universal Content Management.

San Francisco, USA – October 4, 2010 – Recently, the Oracle applications podcast, “Appcast”, which is moderated by Senior Vice President of Applications Cliff Godwin, featured a discussion with the CTSpace’s Vice President of Product Management, Tim Fleet, and Oracle’s AutoVue Director of Product Strategy and Management, Thierry Bonfante. CTSpace and AutoVue both offer applications that help engineering or asset-intensive operations maximise their chosen enterprise content management system—CTSpace by integrating them with CAD management programs such as AutoCAD and MicroStation, and AutoVue by providing the necessary CAD visualisation functionality. (...)

San Francisco, USA – September 27, 2010 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the engineering and construction industries, is the subject of an article in the September 2010 issue of World Expro Magazine. The article details the increased importance of document management systems with full engineering functionality as government oversight of the upstream industry strengthens internationally; addresses how CTSpace in particular stands as the surest response to increased requirements, with the depth, quality, and variety of its solutions; and provides a case study of the Moroccan oil refining company SAMIR using CTSpace to manage documents and workflows as it expanded and retooled its operations. (...)

Does the cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?

San Francisco, USA – July 29, 2010 – CTSpace Products VP Tim Fleet will deliver a presentation on the successful cases, potential uses, and discernable limitations of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or internet-hosted information management solutions in nuclear builds at the NIRMA 2010 Conference in Summerlin, Nevada. Mr. Fleet’s 3:45p.m. August 16th technical session titled, “Does the cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” will note the drastic improvements SaaS has on inter-project communication, at the same time addressing compliance concerns and on-premise IM alternatives. (...)
 

Brentford, UK – July 27, 2010 – CTSpace's client STRABAG was one of the project leaders on the €436 million Limerick Tunnel in Ireland, a four-lane, fifteen-bridge, 10km-long roadway that will serve primarily as a bypass of Limerick and as a connector of the cities of Galway and Cork. STRABAG completed a subterranean tunnel and provided the equipment for the construction of a 965 meter-long tunnel, the centerpiece of the project, using FusionLive for their document management and communication enhancement needs. Once voted the “European PPP-Deal of the Year 2006,” the Limerick Tunnel was completed within four years, two months quicker than expected, and its grand opening was attended by the Prime Minister of Ireland. (...)

Summerlin, Nevada - July 6, 2010 - The Nuclear Information and Records Management Association (NIRMA) is the nuclear industry’s leader in information management. Since 1977 NIRMA has been uniquely qualified to provide guidance to commercial and Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in the areas of quality records programs, regulatory compliance activities, electronic records initiatives, document management technologies, and knowledge management issues.

Interview of Product Director Tim Fleet on page 9, in the "NIRMA looks to the future" section, on the theme, “Does the Cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” . Tim Fleet will give a compelling presentation (technical session #19) on this theme, at the NIRMA 2010 Information Management Conference, Summerlin, Nevada on August 16.

Offshore Technology International (2010, Volume 1) - Finally a supplier of collaboration and document management applications for the construction industry is taking a customer centric view of how solutions should be supplied. Sword’s latest range of applications, "Fusion", have been developed through taking the industries viewpoint of considering not only function, but form and finance also. Having initially brought together some of the best engineering and construction applications into the same stable, i.e. the bringing together through acquisition of BuildOnline, Citadon CW, Cimage & Novasoft, decided to take a fresh and different approach. Before embarking on an exercise to simply extract the best of each of these applications into a best in class application portfolio, decided to take a broader look at the requirements of the industry by putting themselves in their customers’ boots! ....

Brentford, UK - May 17, 2010 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, is launching its brand-new “Engineering Collaboration” online community. It allows those involved in developing, implementing or working with engineering and construction collaboration technologies to report news, share and debate ideas and to promote the benefits of collaboration solutions. People from the engineering and construction sector and related industries will be able to view and participate in discussions. Conversely, engineering and construction collaboration technology developers will be able to draw attention to themselves and their industries and interact with potential clients. The website is located at www.engineering-collaboration.com ...

CTSpace helps major refinery company increase its productivity

Brentford, UK – May 12, 2010 – CTSpace’s FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be the subject of a customer testimonial by the Moroccan refinery company SAMIR at a session of the IBM IOD EMEA 2010 Conference in the Rome Marriot Park Hotel Wednesday May 19 11:45am-12:35pm (Room TBA). SAMIR, a public company with a staff of 1100 and $3.2 billion turnover in 2009, currently operates at a capacity of 6.5 MT/year (under expansion to 8.2 MT/year)...
 

Brentford, UK – May 7, 2010 – CTSpace’s project collaboration solution FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be featured at the IBM IOD EMEA Conference in Rome on May 19-21, 2010. CTSpace’s presentations will consist of live demos at their kiosk (#95, in the Industry Solutions section) and a compelling product overview and customer testimonial in sessions at the Rome Marriot Park Hotel. FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 leverages the generic FileNet framework and adds powerful document management and collaboration workflow features to support engineering projects of all sizes and complexities...
 

Brentford, UK – May 3, 2010 – CTSpace, a world leading provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications to the construction and engineering industry announced that they will be working with Hochtief to aid the structural design of two new power stations for RWE by providing their Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, FusionLive. As part of the RWE power station renovation programme, the Consult IKS energy planning department at HOCHTIEF has been awarded the contract for the structural design of two coal-fired power stations. RWE is investing more than €4bn in both facilities....
 

World Expro (March 2010) - Effective document management can do more than just save time and money on a new project. CTSpace’s Tim Fleet and Amec’s Jeff Harrison explain how constantly evolving software is helping to unleash creativity in the oil and gas industry.

San Francisco, USA – April 7, 2010 – CTSpace is releasing today FusionLive, the latest addition to the Fusion family of products which provide a unique combination of on premise and cloud based content management solutions to the engineering and construction industries.

Brentford, UK - March 18, 2010 - CTSpace, global provider of project document control and collaboration solutions for the design, engineering and construction of capital-intensive projects, today announced that they will be working with EDF Polska on all their sites in Poland.

Brentford, UK - February 1, 2010 - CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, announced today that they will be working with STRABAG on the project “Tanzende Türme” (dancing towers) in Hamburg, Germany.

Brentford, UK – January 22, 2010 – CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, interviewed representatives from some of the world’s leading Hydropower companies (SNC Lavalin, EDF, ABB, Atkins Ltd., etc.) at the HYDRO 2009 event in Lyon, France on October 28, 2009.

The consensus opinion from these representatives was that though hydropower has shortcomings in the cost and length of its projects, the industry expects to gain the most from the extraordinary rise in demand for “green” energy sources as the safest and most proven form of renewable energy. Many stressed that the primary challenge for the industry is the necessity to strengthen the lines of communication on its projects in order to reduce project cost and length, thereby making its projects more attractive to investors.
(Videos of these interviews can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/swordctspace#p/c/C629CF8FB0B89654)

Coteba, the engineering and construction group, selects CTSpace to facilitate project management and collaboration on the ‘Les Halles’ €760m project in the centre of Paris.

Paris, France, January 20, 2010 – CTSpace, the industry leading developer of document and business process management in the Engineering and Construction sector, announced that they will be working with Coteba on their latest project in the ‘Les Halles’ region in the metropolitan heart of the French capital. The project is at the forefront of building architecture with an estimated project value of €760 million. Construction will begin in May 2010 and will span over seven years from conception to delivery.(...)
 

Frankfurt, Germany – January 18, 2010 – CTSpace’s document management and collaboration workflow application is being used by Union Investment Real Estate on their latest project, the EMPORIO in Hamburg. The real estate company has been given the task of refurbishing this beautiful listed building and modernising the
structure to adhere to the new high standards of material and energy efficiency. The CTSpace solution is being used in the distribution of documentation and to aide the complex coordination processes on the project. (...)

Paris, France – 14th December 2009 – CTSpace, developer of solutions for document management and collaboration in engineering and construction the world over, announced today that they will be working with Vinci Construction on the new ‘Yacht club de Monaco’. The project has been designed by Lord Norman Foster (who has also developed the London City Hall, the Hearst Tower in New York and the Millennium Tower project in Japan.) and Alexandre Giraldi (who is the main architect behind the Odeon Tower in Monaco). CTSpace will implement their internet hosted, Saas solution for the project. (...)

Frankfurt, Germany – September 16, 2009 – CTSpace, global provider of project document control and collaboration solutions for the design, engineering and construction of capital-intensive projects, today announced that DWI Hamburg selected its solutions to manage the refurbishment and rehabilitation of the of the historical Hamburg Post Office Headquarters “Oberpostdirektion”. (...)

Paris, France – 1st December 2009 – CTSpace, developer of solutions for document management and collaboration in engineering and construction the world over, announced today that they will be working with GCC on the design, construction, financing and maintenance of the new Police Headquarters for the "Gendarmerie Nationale" in the Rhône region (France). The project will be run on as a Public-Private Partnership and CTSpace will be implementing their Saas based solution to help optimise document management and work collaboration. (...)
 

June 2009 - BUILDONLINE, ALWAYS ON TOP OF THINGS! (STRABAG INTERNAL NEWSPAPER)
Increasing costs pressure and more and more complex construction projects necessitate tighter and more transparent management of the construction sites. The answer to it is BuildOnline - a concept developed by STRABAG SE to optimise information management in companies. The project aimed at constructing a new power plant MPP3 has been developed with the use of this tool as the 300th on the list.

NHH selects collaboration and document management technology to support £600 million property development programme

London, UK - March 7, 2007 - CTSpace, the global SaaS business process management and collaboration solution provider, has been selected by Notting Hill Housing, one of the UK’s largest providers of affordable housing, to improve efficiencies and drive better collaboration on its £600 million, 3,000 unit property development programme. (...)

London, UK - December 21, 2007 - We are delighted to announce that CTSpace, the global SaaS collaboration solution provider, has become part of the Group. The move is another landmark for CTSpace’s evolution, which has seen the company grow from the merger of BuildOnline and Citadon into a market-leading provider of web-based collaboration, business process management and document management solutions. The Group is a dynamic, financially secure, International IT software and solutions provider listed on NSYE Euronext, with over 1,700 people and 15 international offices in cities such as New York, Houston, London and Paris. This acquisition is expected to bring a new dimension to CTSpace who will benefit greatly from Group's established international presence and proven experience of providing high added-value technology solutions to a world-wide customer base.

January 2007 - "Buidling for Sucess" - Project Management crosses all areas of employment. The goal for each individual project manager, regardless of industry, remains the same - to ensure the key issues of cost, time and quality can be realized, and the see each project through the end. (...)

January 16, 2007 - STRABAG Extends Global Use of CTSpace - STRABAG, one of the leading international providers of construction services, has extended its use of CTSpace’s business process management and collaboration solutions. This will help STRABAG manage the development, design, construction and maintenance of its worldwide construction projects. (...)

BuildOnline is going Global - BuildOnline may be slightly smaller than IBM, but it has adopted its strategy of taking over document management firms . Last month the UK outfit, which provides collaboration software for project teams , merged with US rival Citadon .