ProjectWise

ProjectWise Overview The CAD content management system for infrastructure teams Joe Croser Global Marketing Director, Platform Products & SELECT Content needs managing… Unmanaged content piles up… A lack of organization causes project costs to rise and quality to drop! This Causes Real Pain! “An estimated 40% of engineering time is dedicated to locating [finding] and validating information…” US National Institute of Standards & Technology Return on interoperability: the new ROI This is what 3 million documents looks like! Now try to find the one you want?! You may be amazed when you do find it! But it doesn’t have to be this way! Be ProjectWise Start to Manage, Find & Share CAD content, project data and Office documents with ProjectWise Join a growing number of global users! More than 1,000 Servers More than 150,000 Users 90% of the ENR 500 NINE of the Top Ten in the “ENR 500” use Bentley ProjectWise to manage parts of their Distributed Enterprises 2006 2005 Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 3 4 2 5 7 6 8 9 10 URS, San Francisco, Calif.† AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, Calif.† Jacobs, Pasadena, Calif. Fluor Corp., Aliso Viejo, Calif.† CH2M HILL COS., Englewood, Colo.† KBR, Houston, Texas† Bechtel, San Francisco, Calif.† Tetra Tech Inc., Pasadena, Calif.† Parsons, Pasadena, Calif.† Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., New York, N.Y.† Type of Firm EAC EA EAC EC E EC EC E EC EAC Now there are two “flavors” of ProjectWise • ProjectWise StartPoint - An entry-level collaboration tool, based on Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies, for MicroStation and AutoCAD users. • ProjectWise Integration - A system of collaboration servers enabling distributed enterprises and related organizations to successfully deliver infrastructure projects. ProjectWise StartPoint an entry-level collaboration tool ProjectWise StartPoint Providing immediate management benefit for one or more users ProjectWise StartPoint Key Benefits: • Direct access to SharePoint collaboration tools from within MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, and AutoCAD • SharePoint technologies become aware of CAD reference file relationships • ProjectWise StartPoint deployment is easy requiring no additional server software beyond SharePoint technologies • Cost-effective starting point for organizations that wish to grow to high-end ProjectWise capabilities Microsoft SharePoint provides all users with: • • • • • • File access control using check-in/check-out functions Automatic version control Fast finding through powerful search features Access control with Folder Level security Calendars and Threaded discussion Web Parts Simple project Web site with user-level customization ProjectWise StartPoint extends SharePoint by: • Providing direct access to SharePoint collaboration tools from within MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, and AutoCAD • ProjectWise StartPoint manages relationships for MicroStation Reference Files and AutoCAD X-Refs • Supporting MicroStation V8 XM Edition Link Sets between CAD and Office files • Saving PDF and other plot files from MicroStation directly into SharePoint technologies • Assigning MicroStation workspace profiles to individual DGN files for standards compliance ProjectWise Integration a system of collaboration servers PW Integration Providing a scalable managed environment for ten or more users ProjectWise StartPoint Server ProjectWise Cache Server ProjectWise Web Server ProjectWise Integration Server ProjectWise Cache Server ProjectWise Publisher Scaling to provide an enterprise-level managed environment for 1,000’s of users ProjectWise Integration Key Benefits: • A project framework offering capabilities to find and reuse content across projects • Standards management tools that increase the quality and consistency of work on all projects • Load balancing and clustering for scaling the solution to a portfolio of projects and optimizing performance across a distributed enterprise The new tools in the V8 XM Edition include: • • Project framework: Search tools make cross-project queries simple, while templates and inherited properties speed the process of creating new projects. Standards management: The association of workspaces to project folders, cache management of workspaces, and support of AutoCAD profiles all help administrators maintain CAD standards across multiple projects and multiple offices. Scalability: Network load balancing ensures high performance during periods of high demand and clustering provides fail-over security for mission-critical projects; users can also now quickly access very large images through streaming raster services. Usability/administration enhancements: Editable workflows and environments increase the administration flexibility of projects in progress, and centralized view management provides a common view of project documents for all users across all projects. SharePoint integration: With ProjectWise support for WebParts and SharePoint, users can access ProjectWise content from a Web browser and SharePoint-based applications can be connected to ProjectWise and all its content. • • • ProjectWise collaboration servers includes • ProjectWise Integration Server with: user synchronization, orchestration, automation, distribution, and indexing services • • • • • • ProjectWise Caching Server ProjectWise Lifecycle Server ProjectWise Plot Server ProjectWise Web Server ProjectWise Publishing Server ProjectWise StartPoint When should you use ProjectWise X? • ProjectWise StartPoint • Is for small teams collaborating on small projects • Provides immediate, low cost benefit • Ideal for teams residing in the same office 80% of the time • ProjectWise Integration • • • • Is for larger teams needing a scalable solution Provides automation and process for complex projects Ideal for teams collaborating across a portfolio of projects Is optimized for distributed enterprises with >1 office Seen enough? Remember the pain? Ouch! Remember the celebration? This user in the Middle East now manages 3 million documents using ProjectWise They find documents at the push of a button! Manage, Find and Share with ease Be Part of the 90% Be ProjectWise www.Bentley.com/ProjectWise The CAD content management system for infrastructure teams Joe Croser Global Marketing Director, Platform Products & SELECT