From a post in the news section of Asite’s web-site: It’s official… Adoddle 17 is Product of the Year and Document & Content Management Product 2014! Asite’s revolutionary cloud platform Adoddle, is selected as Product of the Year. This was bolstered with Document & Content Management Product 2014, at an award ceremony hosted by the…

From a Press Release on Newforma’s web-site: Project information management software company’s SmartUse app shows full-size plans on interactive touch screens from AEC tech solutions provider Las Vegas, Nev., U.S.A.—3 December 2014—Newforma, a project information management (PIM) software company transforming building and infrastructure project delivery, today announced it has partnered with NRI, the New York-based…

Seasons Greetings to all. May the year 2015 bring good health, great happiness, and, for my friends in and around the reprographics industry, great prosperity. My predictions for 2015 (not really!): The Dow Jones Index will either rise to above 21,000 …. or fall to below 14,000.  (Or, it may do both!  What do economists…

(Note:  updated comments appear at the end of the post) Yesterday, Ed Avis, Managing Director of the IRgA, put up a post on IRgA.com announcing that a Germany-based “cooperative” has become a member of the IRgA. At the beginning of that post, here’s what Ed says: The German, Swiss, and Austrian reprographics cooperative go4copy.net has…

HP’s latest teaser-e-mail about HP PageWide Wide-Format is titled, “Don’t Open Until 2015!” And, when you open that e-mail, HP goes on to say: Aha! We knew you would! But since you did, being curious pays off! I wanted to make sure you know the new PageWide Technology set to transform the large-format printing market.…

For those of you who follow the “imaging” industry …. Early in 2014, Cintas, a publicly traded company mostly involved in the uniform rental business, announced its intention to sell off its businesses providing document management, records management, document shredding, scanning and imaging services.  Subsequently, it sold its shredding business to Shred-it, a major player…

Blog Publisher’s comments on the survey results: We announced the survey on November 30th and left it open until this afternoon. In spite of the fact that the survey post received 744 page-views – and, people, that’s a huge number of page-views for a post on Reprographics 101 – only 24 people took the time…

In early June 2014, HP announced its PageWide wide-format printers, indicating that this new generation of wide-format printers would not be released until the second half of 2015.  So, over a year away from the announcement date!  (During the month of June, I put up several posts about HP’s Page-Wide wide-format printers.  You can easily…

Word of the Year Check out this post on the best economics blog out there: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/11/word-of-year.html 0 0 1 35 200 Proactive Management 1 1 234 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt;…

This was reported (by other publications) in October, but I’m just finding out about it now. “Customers of both companies will benefit from the addition of Bluebeam PDF expertise and Nemetschek adherence to open standards.  German software vendor Nemetschek AG announces it will acquire Bluebeam Software, a leading developer of PDF-based collaboration tools for AEC.…