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Be Inspired Media Briefing Day

Now we have the first day, before the Be Inspired, destined to the press; with the most important trends that Bentley Systems expects to move at the media level.

For now, my first impressions.

  • Pointools seems to be the best Bentley acquisition, in my opinion. An important company that the former CEO of Bentley, Joe Croser, went to, an interesting job, in which not only was the interest of Bentley and AutoDesk moved by the joint collaboration in the management of cloud points data but a strategy for the neutral support with the main suppliers of equipment for data capture.

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  • Bentley Descartes V8i has been called the DTM on steroids. And it is that Bentley seems that it will boast (again) the reason why many of its loyal users love it: the robustness of the platform to handle data on the fly. So 680 million points, on a digital terrain model and an orthophoto shot on the TIN, with robust zoom and pan could be a big draw from the V8i.
  • The other trend is marked in Hypermodels, a way of calling BIM under the premise of forgetting 2D planes, to handle cuts and cross sections at any point and totally dynamic. With this, the integration of geotechnical applications, with the geometric design of roads, structural design and simulation of energy consumption is quite a smoke.  A few years ago I talked about it, And is the concept of a single model, no matter how many people or applications touch the files ... One Model ... Several Products.

The trend continues in a complete process of creating, publishing, protecting and distributing data from the desktop to the cloud, without thinking about files but about real models. Bentley placed Microstation very well, now it wants to do it with ProjectWise ... and at the time it will be AssetWise ... although not yet.

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  • And finally, although the afternoon is young, mobility is in an irreversible trend. Alliances or acquisitions with AECO and Tekla seem to mature beyond the simple applications so far posted on the ApStore for iPad. The potential is in ProjectWise, with which they want to take data management from I-models To an interoperability context that will really benefit everyone.

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Other acquisitions such as Formsys take the management of petroleum systems further, now including floating platforms. In the case of Raceway and Cable management, it is another approach to the BIM concept, in which almost everything is connected as the real world is. 

It draws attention to valuable alliances, such as the case of AutoDesk that for a long time continues to be managed as a strategic partner rather than a competitor (it is assumed), before they talked about integration with Revit, now they mention Civil 3D. Interoperability proves it and it is understandable for the two big ones, although every day we see more closeness with Microsoft, who could in the future have an important influence since Bentley Systems continues to be a great world company at the head of a family heritage ).

About 70 media representatives from 20 countries are here to convince ourselves with our own eyes. The iPad stand out, increasingly common by editors, also tweeter, Much better than last year; The hashtag is #BeIn2011 and can be tracked to be up to speed almost in the minute.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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