Bentley Systems opens full access to ProjectWise 365; waives fees until September
The system leverages Microsoft 365 technology and office productivity tools
Bentley Systems has opened full access to its ProjectWise 365 cloud service and says it is waiving subscription fees through to September 30, 2020. The US-based firm says the move will enable project stakeholders working from home to virtually connect to infrastructure projects.
According to a statement, ProjectWise 365 is said to extend the reach and accessibility of BIM and infrastructure engineering data, to facilitate collaboration and design review across the ecosystem of project stakeholders.
As an ‘instant-on’ cloud service accessed through a web browser to simplify design review, transmittals, RFIs, information sharing, and issues resolution, ProjectWise 365 is perfectly suited for quick adoption, while working from home, eliminating the need for error-prone combinations of generic technologies such as “drop boxes” and PDF, the firm said.
“The enterprises using ProjectWise Design Integration for work sharing, which include 74 of the ENR Top 100 Design Firms, have been telling us that they credit ProjectWise for sustaining their project productivity over the forced transition to work from home. Now, by broadly and immediately opening access to our new simplified ProjectWise 365 cloud service, we’re extending ProjectWise advantages in collaboration and design review to infrastructure engineering project teams at every scale. By fully ‘digitally’ enabling every infrastructure professional, we hope to support their resilience in surmounting this crisis,” said Dustin Parkman, VP, Project Delivery for Bentley.
In its statement, Bentley notes that ProjectWise 365 is part of its efforts to help user organisations and end users to work remotely, providing tools, information, and resources including FAQs, videos, webinars and other technical assets.
Gregory J. Ellwanger, P.E., project engineer for BLA added, “The present work-from-home conditions and coordination with multiple parties highlight how critical it is to our business and our role as prime consultant on projects, that our project teams always stay connected and productive. ProjectWise 365 cloud services enable us to rapidly deploy a common BIM collaboration environment that avoids the data silos, coordination delays, and the other limitations we’ve experienced while using network drives, file-sharing services, and email. ProjectWise 365 allows us to coordinate designs more quickly and reduce risk in contractual exchanges, regardless of the location of project participants, adding resilience to our design practice and increasing our ability to deliver high-quality projects on schedule.”
