Bentley CONNECT Services, Provisioned on Windows Azure, Extend Information Mobility Across Users’ Projects and Assets
LONDON - Tuesday, October 29th 2013 [ME NewsWire]
The Year in Infrastructure 2013
(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to
providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining
infrastructure, today announced that Bentley CONNECT Services, to be
successively extended to all of Bentley’s software subscribers to
complete the reach of project and asset information mobility, will be
fully provisioned through the Windows Azure cloud from Microsoft Corp.
Windows Azure will unify Bentley’s own software and support enterprise,
making it accessible to add value directly in the “live” context of
users’ work, through Bentley CONNECT SELECTservices for software
administration and technical support and Bentley CONNECT LEARNservices.
In addition, it will underlie an incremental business model – enabling
Bentley to complete its reach in “software as services” – through
Bentley CONNECT MANAGEservices.
Speaking here at The
Year in Infrastructure 2013 Conference to the hundreds of owner-operator
and contractor thought leaders gathered in London, CEO Greg Bentley
reviewed the effective strategies emerging this year – especially among
the hundreds of nominated and over 60 jury-selected finalist projects
for the prestigious Be Inspired Awards – to take advantage of
information mobility for better performance of infrastructure projects
and assets. By now comprehensively “connecting through cloud services,”
he said, projects could effectively, securely, and immediately augment
the information mobility returns on their successful existing internal
collaboration initiatives.
To help achieve this,
Bentley CONNECT can span users’ project environments across
participants, firewalls, supply chains, joint ventures, and disparate
vendors’ software, as well as across Bentley’s information modeling
application portfolio, Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration servers,
Bentley’s AssetWise servers for operations and maintenance, and
Bentley’s growing mobile apps portfolio. Cloud services being previewed
for users include Bentley CONNECT Project Sharing Services, Bentley
CONNECT i-model Validation Services, Bentley CONNECT Content Services,
and Bentley CONNECT Scenario Services.
Bentley’s
decision to choose Windows Azure as the technical foundation of Bentley
CONNECT allows it to extend its proven capabilities with new services
uniquely enabled by an always-on “cloud.” By embracing Windows Azure
Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure Services, Bentley is aligned
with Microsoft’s commitment to hybrid environments, comprising cloud and
on-premises computing – a crucial factor in meeting the unique
requirements of organizations that design, build, and operate the
world’s infrastructure. In addition, the global footprint of Windows
Azure is a major advantage as Bentley users are key contributors to
projects worldwide.
Bentley Senior Vice President Alan
Kiraly said, “The Windows Azure team has been very collaborative and
supportive. We have been impressed with the pace at which Microsoft is
adding new data centers and Windows Azure core services in areas such as
security, notification, data replication, data synchronization, and big
data analytics. We can leverage each of these immediately in our
application-level services to further facilitate and streamline our
users’ workflows in collaborative and distributed environments.”
“Windows
Azure is a scalable and secure cloud platform that provides the
opportunity to integrate software and drive company collaboration,” said
Dewey Forrester, Microsoft Senior Director. “Bentley has capitalized on
the benefits of Windows Azure to extend its current capabilities and
offerings to its customers around the globe via the cloud.”
About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley
is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers,
geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with
comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Bentley
Systems applies information mobility to improve asset performance by
leveraging information modeling through integrated projects for
intelligent infrastructure. Its solutions encompass the MicroStation
platform for infrastructure design and modeling, the ProjectWise
platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing,
and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations – all
supporting a broad portfolio of interoperable applications and
complemented by worldwide professional services. Founded in 1984,
Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in 50 countries, more than $500
million in annual revenues, and since 2005 has invested more than $1
billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional
information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in
Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an
RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. To view a
searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the
annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure
publications. To access a professional networking site that enables
members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and
learn from each other, visit Be Communities.
To
download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique
global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of
infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure
investments, visit www.bentley.com/500.
Bentley, the
“B” Bentley logo, Be, Bentley CONNECT, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are
either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of
Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly
owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of
their respective owners.
Contacts
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Press Contact:
Ron Kuhfeld, +1 610 321 6493
ron.kuhfeld@bentley.com
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