computer software founded 2000 ; 16 years ago 2000 london england headquarters woking surrey key people colin smith ceo products biw biw viewer revenue 5.9 m 2009 number of employees 47 website www.biwtech.com biw technologies biw was a privately held british company providing web based electronic construction collaboration technologies also sometimes described as project management or project extranet systems to customers in the construction and property sectors . it was acquired by a german company conject in december 2010 and adopted its parent company s branding in april 2012 . in march 2016 the conject group was acquired by australia based rival aconex . contents 1 history 2 finances 3 acquisition and merger 4 external links 5 references history edit having purchased the rights to a prototype software as a service saas application already being piloted by sainsbury s and baa ceo colin smith and his fellow founder directors established the company in london in early 2000 as interest in construction oriented dot.com businesses began to peak in the uk . working with such blue chip clients helped biw market the platform to both existing project supply chains and to new customers and the business grew rapidly . 1 by 2003 according to independent research by compagnia biw could claim 26.4 % of the uk market 2 and it was achieving annual revenues of 2.7 m comfortably ahead of its then nearest uk rival buildonline . for a period 2001 2004 biw also provided its software to asite which traded as a reseller of biw s platform until it launched its own collaboration system and became a direct competitor . in 2003 biw was a founder member of the network of construction collaboration technology providers ncctp then managed by ciria and later part of constructing excellence . from 2000 2005 sir michael latham author of the influential latham report served as non executive deputy chairman of biw . in january 2005 the company relocated its head office from london to woking in surrey . it has maintained a uk software development centre in nottingham since 2000 and established an offshore software development centre in vadodara gujarat india in october 2007 . it opened a middle east office in dubai in 2006 . in 2008 it formed a partnership with sage to deliver its collaboration solutions to clients in north america . in april 2006 biw technologies won the entrepreneur of the year category in the industry s annual building awards being described as a firm that seems intent on wiping paper use out of the industry altogether . 3 biw s customers included robertson sainsbury s baa argent group plc 4 mace bovis lend lease 5 land securities defence estates interserve and marks & spencer . by 2010 it claimed its software was used by over 190 000 registered users in over 14 000 organisations . 6 finances edit unlike some rivals biw remained independent of construction industry investors with most of its initial funding coming from private investors who held shares in a holding company biw plc. according to companies house submissions biw technologies ltd achieved revenues of 7.3 m in the year to 30 september 2008 generating a profit of 1.1 m. 7 at this time the company was reported to be planning a 25m to 40m listing on london s aim . 8 9 10 however the company suffered during the post credit crunch recession partly due to its exposure to the dubai market with revenues cut to 5.9 m and biw declaring a pre tax loss of 731 000 . the company recapitalised in september 2009 with biw plc being put into administration a process that rendered the company debt free . acquisition and merger edit in december 2010 biw technologies was acquired by german based conject holdings gmbh in a deal to unite providers of ilm software applications for the engineering construction and real estate industries . 11 biw and conject ag formed a new group offering applications to support asset based projects throughout their infrastructure lifecycle from concept design and construction through to facilities management . with offices in nine countries the group had combined revenues of around 18 million with 180 employees and approximately 170 000 active users . 12 in march 2016 the conject group was acquired by australia based rival aconex . 13 external links edit biw technologies website references edit out of the ashes.com construction news 16 january 2003 biw has 26.4 per cent of uk market biw technologies wins building entrepreneur award argent selects biw for king s cross development it showcase january 2008 bovis lend lease shortlisted in construction news quality in construction awards 2008 construction news supplement april 2008 . about us biw website accessed 3 september 2010 biw sees profit double to 1.1 m contract journal 17 december 2008 dotcom survivor biw moots float daily telegraph 14 july 2008 in the know biw technologies ... daily telegraph 2 august 2008 biw to press on with aim listing by philip stafford financial times 31 december 2008 conject bernimmt biw faz.net dec 2010 biw joins with conject press release biw technologies dec 2010 yueyang maggie lu 18 march 2016 . aconex snaps up conject for 96m . the australian . retrieved 2 april 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title biw technologies & oldid 720368454 categories software companies of the united kingdomtechnology companies established in 2000hidden categories use dmy dates from july 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page 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