Bentley Transmittal Services

The Bentley Systems company, the supplier of complete software solutions for support of infrastructure, announced in November, 2011 expansion of strategic cooperation with Microsoft corporation.

Within participation in the affiliate program of Microsoft Azure Platform the Bentley company the accelerated rates provides to architectural, project, construction and operating organizations around the world (AECO) a broad spectrum of the cloud services on the Azure platform focused on support of infrastructure. The new service Bentley Transmittal Services which allows to create reliably and safely document packages and provides their delivery, receiving and tracking using the special portal is a part of the initial offer on the Azure platform. Users of the platform of joint work of ProjectWise and the platform of management of operational information of AssetWise will be able to use these general services for the purpose of reduction of risks, saving of time and increase in transparency of a project status.

The vice president of Microsoft Scott Guthrie said: "The Bentley Systems company is one of our main partners in the field of providing to community AECO the software and services on the Windows platform of Azure. The Microsoft corporation and Bentley company jointly satisfy needs of our general customers and offer them cloud strategy which covers private and public cloud environments and also local deployment. We already saw examples of how this productive approach helps to increase efficiency of such organizations and to try to obtain still great success in business".

The senior vice president of Bentley Software Bhupinder Singh explained: "Most of our customers invested considerable means in manual processing or corporate systems for the solution of an important problem of transmission control of documents. Unfortunately, many general approaches do not meet requirements of infrastructure projects. The Bentley Transmittal Services allows to optimize and automate this crucial business process and gives to users opportunities of reliable access and creation of the document packages containing the necessary versions of the project documentation transformed to required formats in case of need. And as such document packages should go beyond the organizations and their firewalls, the cloud environment is represented the natural solution for implementation. The leading architectural, project, construction and operating organizations apply the ProjectWise system of Bentley company to creation and work with the working products. Besides, we in Bentley company have unique opportunities on providing (using i-model) and protection (using ProjectWise and AssetWise) information mobility of data of AECO. Thus, expansion of a scope ProjectWise and AssetWise using Bentley Transmittal Services became key event for Bentley company and the organizations of our customers in the field of risk minimization in workflows of AECO. The solution of this task on the basis of a cloud platform of Azure is the mutually advantageous scenario for Bentley company, Microsoft corporation and that is the most important, for our customers".