Autodesk Buy Up Your Company? Switch!

With Autodesk's announcement that it's buying up Constructware, competitor Citadon is offering a 25% discount to move away from Autodesk: "Constructware customers are facing some difficult choices moving forward," says Citadon ceo Howard Koenig.

Sez the press release: The migration program was developed to help Constructware customers and partners respond to business challenges resulting from Autodesk's recently announced plan to acquire Constructware. I presume that "business challenges" is code for something or other. Citadon will love Constructware customers only until Sept 30.

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[ZIPPY]

They also say
"Citadon CW offers:

Completely flexible communication flows - tailor your review and approval processes to the way you do business

Integration with your existing scheduling and cost management systems
One central document repository for all your project team members regardless of their organization or location"

The symmetry seems to be off with these new things. If we look at ADSK model we have CAD with a web based collaboration layer that works effortlessly.

This "new layer" or add now brings in the “C” side of AEC. When they bring in “C” you need information to tie the major code together of estimating, scheduling and accounting as easily as CAD works with Buzzsaw. I don’t know ADSK’s plans, but can you do follow up on what this looks like in the future.

Ralph, Who are the winners and losers on this front with this broader “C” market? Does Microsoft play into this with Project and MBS? What happens to Primavera, Timberline, Intuit or Winest? ...

[Paul Wilkinson]

Citadon's old ProjectNet solution was adopted by a wide range of organisations engaged in conventional architectural, engineering and construction projects, but Citadon CW seems to have been less successful in penetrating the AEC sector - being regarded (according to my UK sources) as "too complex, too expensive, too enterprise".

Citadon's effort is surely doomed to failure, isn't it? Why stop using a proven AEC-focused product (Constructware) and switch to an enterprise solution which seems more at home and popular in the major utility and facilities engineering sectors?

[DeanB]

citadon + primavera, bim, ilm, opendocs? Winners autodesk, best, graphsoft, microsoft desktop. Losers bentley

[DeanB]

citadon + primavera, bim, ilm, opendocs? Winners autodesk, best, graphsoft, microsoft desktop. Losers bentley

[DeanB]

citadon + primavera, bim, ilm, opendocs? Winners autodesk, best, graphsoft, microsoft desktop. Losers bentley