Bentley Systems continues to develop its portfolio of software solutions - Mike Woof writes
One of the leaders in the field of construction software, Bentley Systems is developing its array of solutions for industry users. The company is growing both by acquisition and organically, using its financial strength to buy up smaller niche firms as well as developing the capabilities of its in-house software further.
The company has recently made three key acquisitions, for EADOC, Acute3D and C3global. The
Bentley Systems continues to develop its portfolio of software solutions - Mike Woof writes
One of the leaders in the field of construction software,4019 Bentley Systems is developing its array of solutions for industry users. The company is growing both by acquisition and organically, using its financial strength to buy up smaller niche firms as well as developing the capabilities of its in-house software further.
The company has recently made three key acquisitions, for EADOC, Acute3D and C3global. The company has also completed important updates for its AssetWise APM V7.3 package.
Acquiring EADOC, a California-based provider of construction management cloud services, will boost Bentley software capabilities for overseeing projects. This package is used by managers at engineering and construction management firms or infrastructure owners with capital projects to reduce risk and staff hours. It can also help improve information quality, and provide owners with real-time visibility into costs. The technology allows facility owners to increase their return on investment through faster project completion. Users can also monitor project financial performance more easily and maintain detailed construction records without administrative staff.
The EADOC technology streamlines construction management processes and allows professionals to to track project documentation. This can include design clarifications, inspectors’ daily reports, special inspections, memos, action items, deficiency items, and schedules. EADOC also helps to integrate project cost controls, including budget, funding sources, contracts, schedule of values, pay estimates, change requests, and change orders, with this project information. The solution is immediately accessible to the project team and provides fast access to documents and cost information. At the same time, it incorporates security features to make sure the right people have access to the right information.
The EADOC team will provide additional capabilities to help develop Bentley’s ProjectWise portfolio and allow more comprehensive project delivery. At the same time, the firm intends to extend EADOC’s information mobility, through Bentley mobile apps including Navigator Mobile and ProjectWise Worksite.
Benefits of the EADOC solution include improved accessibility by keeping construction projects up to date with real-time information, better accountability by providing faster return on investment and increased productivity by enabling time savings of up to 30%. Overall this technology offers better efficiency by reducing costs and improved risk mitigation by tracking and controlling risk to mitigate cost and schedule impacts.
Meanwhile the buyout of French firm Acute3D brought the sophisticated Smart3DCapture software, which is used for reality modelling. Using reality modelling, observations of existing conditions can be processed into representations for contextual alignment within design modelling and construction modelling environments. According to Bentley, rapid technology advances in scanning and photography, and especially the growing application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for these purposes, are making the capture of these observations affordable in sustaining infrastructure.
Acute3D software automates the generation of high-resolution, fully-3D representations from digital photographs taken with any camera, whether highly specialised or embedded in a smartphone. Scalable from site to city, and with precision limited only by the quantity and quality of photography, Acute3D technology can assure that existing conditions are contemporaneously considered throughout the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations of any infrastructure asset. Now that photo sequences from UAVs are becoming a feasible source for surveying, construction monitoring, and inspection workflows, Acute3D’s industrial-level accuracy and unlimited scalability are making it a preferred technology for UAV manufacturers and professionals around the world.
Bentley’s acquisition of UK-based C3global meanwhile brought the web-based Amulet software for operational analytics into the fold.
From a product portfolio perspective, it complements Bentley’s AssetWise platform, which serves configuration management, asset health monitoring, inspection, maintenance, and compliance for infrastructure assets. The move means AssetWise will deliver additional actionable insights as asset performance management is extended, through AssetWise Amulet, for asset performance modelling. The Amulet package offers additional value in applying predictive and prescriptive analytics that are easily configurable at industrial scale to leverage just-in-time data for improved operational efficiencies.
AssetWise Amulet can be configured to build sophisticated applications tailored to infrastructure operations needs without having to know a programming language. It bridges the gap between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), enabling advanced analytics to be an integral part of all aspects of the business process. Through AssetWise Amulet’s interactive and easily configurable operational dashboards, owner-operators are provided with the context they need to be confident in their decisions and are afforded an easy method of measuring and managing the outcomes.
The package is designed to integrate and analyse big data generated by a wide range of external applications and systems – from SQL or Oracle databases to enterprise data warehouses, industrial data historians, and control systems, as well as maintenance and work order management systems. The data can be structured or unstructured and include systems data, photos, video, log books, Microsoft Excel files, event failures, scanned notes, witnessed events, and more.
Once data from the IT and OT systems has been captured and aggregated, the software applies the users’ business rules, models, and knowledge to provide an improved view and understanding of operational performance for decision support. In conjunction with AssetWise-certified integrations to SAP EAM, IBM Maximo, and Oracle eAM, AssetWise Amulet will help drive the right actions at the right time, reducing operational risks and improving operational
And finally, Bentley is improving its AssetWise APM package with the addition of process safety and risk management capabilities. The new AssetWise APM V7.3. package is an updated version of Bentley’s asset performance management (APM) product. This is said to offer an all-in-one analysis and information management software platform for asset reliability and asset integrity. The new version now comes with an additional tool that advances process safety.
The AssetWise APM V7.3 package is said to boost the reliability, integrity, safety of processes in sectors including quarrying and materials production. The software is said to ensure that assets are safe and reliable and that they are inspected and maintained to reduce or eliminate risk. Users further benefit from the elimination of unexpected downtime, increased asset availability and utilisation, reduced maintenance costs, and support for regulations and safety standards.
One of the leaders in the field of construction software,
The company has recently made three key acquisitions, for EADOC, Acute3D and C3global. The company has also completed important updates for its AssetWise APM V7.3 package.
Acquiring EADOC, a California-based provider of construction management cloud services, will boost Bentley software capabilities for overseeing projects. This package is used by managers at engineering and construction management firms or infrastructure owners with capital projects to reduce risk and staff hours. It can also help improve information quality, and provide owners with real-time visibility into costs. The technology allows facility owners to increase their return on investment through faster project completion. Users can also monitor project financial performance more easily and maintain detailed construction records without administrative staff.
The EADOC technology streamlines construction management processes and allows professionals to to track project documentation. This can include design clarifications, inspectors’ daily reports, special inspections, memos, action items, deficiency items, and schedules. EADOC also helps to integrate project cost controls, including budget, funding sources, contracts, schedule of values, pay estimates, change requests, and change orders, with this project information. The solution is immediately accessible to the project team and provides fast access to documents and cost information. At the same time, it incorporates security features to make sure the right people have access to the right information.
The EADOC team will provide additional capabilities to help develop Bentley’s ProjectWise portfolio and allow more comprehensive project delivery. At the same time, the firm intends to extend EADOC’s information mobility, through Bentley mobile apps including Navigator Mobile and ProjectWise Worksite.
Benefits of the EADOC solution include improved accessibility by keeping construction projects up to date with real-time information, better accountability by providing faster return on investment and increased productivity by enabling time savings of up to 30%. Overall this technology offers better efficiency by reducing costs and improved risk mitigation by tracking and controlling risk to mitigate cost and schedule impacts.
Meanwhile the buyout of French firm Acute3D brought the sophisticated Smart3DCapture software, which is used for reality modelling. Using reality modelling, observations of existing conditions can be processed into representations for contextual alignment within design modelling and construction modelling environments. According to Bentley, rapid technology advances in scanning and photography, and especially the growing application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for these purposes, are making the capture of these observations affordable in sustaining infrastructure.
Acute3D software automates the generation of high-resolution, fully-3D representations from digital photographs taken with any camera, whether highly specialised or embedded in a smartphone. Scalable from site to city, and with precision limited only by the quantity and quality of photography, Acute3D technology can assure that existing conditions are contemporaneously considered throughout the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations of any infrastructure asset. Now that photo sequences from UAVs are becoming a feasible source for surveying, construction monitoring, and inspection workflows, Acute3D’s industrial-level accuracy and unlimited scalability are making it a preferred technology for UAV manufacturers and professionals around the world.
Bentley’s acquisition of UK-based C3global meanwhile brought the web-based Amulet software for operational analytics into the fold.
From a product portfolio perspective, it complements Bentley’s AssetWise platform, which serves configuration management, asset health monitoring, inspection, maintenance, and compliance for infrastructure assets. The move means AssetWise will deliver additional actionable insights as asset performance management is extended, through AssetWise Amulet, for asset performance modelling. The Amulet package offers additional value in applying predictive and prescriptive analytics that are easily configurable at industrial scale to leverage just-in-time data for improved operational efficiencies.
AssetWise Amulet can be configured to build sophisticated applications tailored to infrastructure operations needs without having to know a programming language. It bridges the gap between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), enabling advanced analytics to be an integral part of all aspects of the business process. Through AssetWise Amulet’s interactive and easily configurable operational dashboards, owner-operators are provided with the context they need to be confident in their decisions and are afforded an easy method of measuring and managing the outcomes.
The package is designed to integrate and analyse big data generated by a wide range of external applications and systems – from SQL or Oracle databases to enterprise data warehouses, industrial data historians, and control systems, as well as maintenance and work order management systems. The data can be structured or unstructured and include systems data, photos, video, log books, Microsoft Excel files, event failures, scanned notes, witnessed events, and more.
Once data from the IT and OT systems has been captured and aggregated, the software applies the users’ business rules, models, and knowledge to provide an improved view and understanding of operational performance for decision support. In conjunction with AssetWise-certified integrations to SAP EAM, IBM Maximo, and Oracle eAM, AssetWise Amulet will help drive the right actions at the right time, reducing operational risks and improving operational
And finally, Bentley is improving its AssetWise APM package with the addition of process safety and risk management capabilities. The new AssetWise APM V7.3. package is an updated version of Bentley’s asset performance management (APM) product. This is said to offer an all-in-one analysis and information management software platform for asset reliability and asset integrity. The new version now comes with an additional tool that advances process safety.
The AssetWise APM V7.3 package is said to boost the reliability, integrity, safety of processes in sectors including quarrying and materials production. The software is said to ensure that assets are safe and reliable and that they are inspected and maintained to reduce or eliminate risk. Users further benefit from the elimination of unexpected downtime, increased asset availability and utilisation, reduced maintenance costs, and support for regulations and safety standards.
