BuildOnline
85 King Street
Maidenhead
Berkshire Sl6 1DU
United Kingdom
www.buildonline.com
Founders:
Brian MORAN, Mark SUSTER
Company Description:
In the 1990’s large companies installed in-house document management systems to deal with the explosion of fi les created with the mass adoption of the PC. These expensive systems often required 12-18 months to implement, required a large number of IT professionals to customize and install them, and required expensive hardware to operate. Importantly they only solved the problem of how to manage information “inside the fi rewall” at a time when most companies were increasingly relying upon trusted supply-chain partners to help them deliver value. BuildOnline was developed as an On-Demand document system to allow rapid rollout though the supply chain.
Product: BUILDONLINE
BuildOnline’s On Demand document management and collaboration platform allows teams from different departments, companies or countries to manage corporate knowledge without the need to purchase hardware, install software or perform an expensive implementation. Our 100% Internet-based solution was designed from day one to work across the fi rewall and has therefore revolutionized the way large physical asset managers work on a daily basis with their supply chains. It has been used by some of the large civil engineering projects in Europe including the London Underground, SNCF, the Highways Agency, the Ministry of Defence and BAe Systems
Market Opportunity:
BuildOnline’s target markets are those that require document sharing, collaboration and workfl ow across large and complex supply-chains. Our core markets include transport, utilities, health care, retailers, oil & gas, defense and construction civil engineering. Gartner Dataquest predicts that global revenues for document management software will reach $1.7bn by 2008 and those for collaborations will reach $1.1bn in a similar time period. It also estimates that that by 2010 30% of software revenues will not be derived from packaged applications but from a “payas-you-go” externally hosted approach. BuildOnline is a leader in this new breed of “On-Demand” software for document management and collaboration.
Competitors:
Documentum, Opentext, Hummingbird, Filenet
