melbourne 2000 headquarters melbourne australia key people leigh jasper ceo and co founder robert phillpot svp and co founder products aconex platform aconex connected bim aconex field aconex handover website www.aconex.com aconex limited asx acx is a listed public australian company providing mobile and web based collaboration technologies for project information and process management also sometimes described as project management or project extranet systems on a software as a service saas basis to clients in the construction infrastructure power mining and oil and gas sectors . with more than 50 000 user organizations globally 1 aconex provides the most widely used cloud based multi company project collaboration solutions for construction and engineering . contents 1 history 2 products services 3 see also 4 references history edit aconex was founded in 2000 by leigh jasper and robert phillpot to offer construction collaboration and procurement management services its name is a concatenation of australian construction exchange . 2 however due to low market interest in web based procurement it focused on expanding its online collaboration services growing domestic revenue rapidly during the first half of the 2000s . by late 2004 aconex had established a presence in the uk market 2 and was expanding into other regions including southeast asia and the middle east . its overseas activity helped it win the emerging exporter award in the 2006 australian export awards . 3 in september 2008 aconex secured an a 107.5 m private equity investment from us based technology investor francisco partners . 4 5 it has since established a substantial presence in north america . by 2014 aconex had served construction and engineering projects with an aggregate value of more than a 800 billion across all major geographic markets from more than 40 offices worldwide . 6 the company completed its initial public offering ipo of ordinary shares on december 9 2014 and is listed on the australian securities exchange asx under the ticker code acx . 7 in march 2016 aconex acquired the germany based conject group for a 96m . 8 products services edit aconex services include 9 construction project information and process management managing processes documents drawings building information models communications workflows audit trails and other project information online both mobile and web access construction field management managing field inspections and issues from mobile devices o & m manuals developing digital operation and maintenance manuals for post construction handover to asset owner and dynamic management of asset information bim data and process management accessing and managing bim models at the object level for project management interface management identifying and resolving interface issues on oil and gas projects in 2011 the company launched an online bidding network branded bidcontender . 10 in 2011 and 2012 the company launched aconex mobile mobile applications iphone and ipad for access to the aconex online collaboration platform . 11 in 2012 the company launched aconex field a mobile field inspection and issues management solution for the iphone and ipad 12 and an android version followed in 2013 . also in 2013 the company launched aconex smart manuals a collaboration solution for the post construction handover of digital operation and maintenance o & m manuals . 13 in 2014 the company launched aconex connected bim an extension of the aconex platform for bim project collaboration 14 and aconex handover a suite of post construction handover solutions that includes smart manuals and dynamic manuals a mobile solution for asset information management . 15 see also edit extranet list of collaborative software references edit how can we help . aconex . retrieved 2013 06 04 . a b wilkinson p. 2005 construction collaboration technologies the extranet evolution taylor & francis london . 2006 australian export awards national winners archived copy . archived from the original on 2012 02 27 . retrieved 2011 11 07 . aconex lands private equity deal the age 22 september 2008 http www.theage.com.au business aconex lands private equity deal 20080921 4l2d.html aconex gears for expansion after 107.5 million injection andrew colley australian it 22 september 2008 http www.theaustralian.com.au australian it old aconex secures 1075 million injection story e6frgamo 1111117553725 construction it finally completes the tower of babel interview with aconex ceo leigh jasper http www.huffingtonpost.com james grundvig construction it finally c b 2852548.html australian securities exchange website http www.asx.com.au yueyang maggie lu 18 march 2016 . aconex snaps up conject for 96m . the australian . retrieved 2 april 2016 . online collaboration for project information management with aconex http www.aconex.com solutions a look at bidcontender http extranetevolution.com 2011 05 a look at bidcontender the future of construction technology http www.constructech.com news articles article.aspx article id 9407 permanent dead link aconex touts integration with new field app https enr.construction.com technology information technology 2012 1008 aconex field app touts integration.asp new product aims to ease operations and maintenance handover for capital projects http www.cadalyst.com cad building design new product suite aims ease operations and maintenance handover capital projects project management system aims to share and enrich building information models with facility data http enr.construction.com technology information technology 2014 1103 project management system aims to share and enrich building inforation models with facility data.asp aconex launches dynamic manuals for mobile handover archived copy . archived from the original on 2014 11 08 . retrieved 2014 11 07 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aconex & oldid 742396500 categories software companies of australiasoftware 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