Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the ProjectWise
Passport - a versatile, portable, and global license for
collaboration.
Said Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president, Bentley Software, "To
improve the world's infrastructure, globally distributed enterprises
must be able to quickly and easily connect their people and
information to facilitate collaboration and improve productivity.
Today, 42 of the 50 leaders among the ENR Top 500 Design Firms are
using the ProjectWise collaboration system to successfully deliver
their infrastructure projects."
The ProjectWise Passport provides ProjectWise users with a
versatile collaboration license that is portable between projects.
With just one ProjectWise Passport a user is now licensed for any
ProjectWise client, including:
-- ProjectWise StartPoint
-- ProjectWise Navigator
-- ProjectWise Explorer
-- ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer
For example, with ProjectWise Navigator - Bentley's newest
addition to the ProjectWise collaboration system - project team
members can review and enrich original 2D and 3D design content. This
promotes full design collaboration within an iterative workflow to
cycle the enriched content back to the design team.
In addition to working as an independent desktop application,
ProjectWise Navigator can also operate in a managed environment as a
client to ProjectWise StartPoint or ProjectWise Integration Server.
Again, the ProjectWise Passport will license all such uses.
Added Singh, "So each user needs only one ProjectWise Passport, no
matter how many ProjectWise clients and/or servers he uses to
collaborate. This makes licensing and deploying any part of the
ProjectWise collaboration system extremely easy and cost-effective,
and enables all holders to join any project already equipped for
collaboration with the entire team."
Using ProjectWise technologies, teams are experiencing a faster
time to ROI than the 12-month norm. This is due, in part. to their
increased ability to manage, find, and share valuable project content
for reuse, and immersively review and analyze project designs.
High-level benefits include:
-- Closer connections between people and information across a
distributed enterprise
-- Increased project quality leading to improved service to
clients
-- Easier change management, reduced risk, reduced rework, and
cost avoidance
A ProjectWise Passport can be procured as a perpetual license or
as a subscription for project use. For more information on the
ProjectWise Passport or the ProjectWise collaboration system, go to
www.bentley.com/ProjectWise.
About ProjectWise
ProjectWise is a scalable collaboration system for connecting
people and information across the distributed enterprise. It includes
desktop clients and servers.
On the desktop, ProjectWise Navigator delivers visual
collaboration for design review and analysis plus work packaging.
ProjectWise StartPoint extends Microsoft SharePoint to enable
collaboration for MicroStation and AutoCAD users. Used together or
individually, they open the power of ProjectWise to a broad population
of new users and teams.
For the enterprise, ProjectWise Integration Server delivers
federated engineering content management. It connects to servers for
caching data, for automating and managing plotting, and for
integrating with SharePoint to expose ProjectWise content to the wider
project team.
About BE Conference
The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee
satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley
user organizations offering professional training, technology updates,
keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees
better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways
they can improve the world's infrastructure.
For more information on BE Conference 2007, taking place this week
at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, go to www.be.org.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio
for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400
colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software
to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major
owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
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