为了利用云计算的最新进展,软件制造商Bentley Systems在5月18日至19日在费城举行的2015年Connections Event在其2015 Connections Event上推出了连接版。Bentley流行软件(包括Microstation和Navigator)的Connect Edition首次宣布,将在今年夏天推出的早期访问计划中向Bentley订户提供。

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首席执行官格雷格·本特利(Greg Bentley)解释说,连接版将共同的建模环境与共同的项目绩效环境和共同的资产绩效环境相结合。他说,攻击Microsoft Azure Cloud服务,“超出设计集成不仅仅是将所有内容连接在一起,创建了可维持联合数据源的关系的通用数据环境。”

但是,与Autodesk等竞争对手不同,本特利并没有转变为完全基于云的体验。本特利副总裁豪·罗伯茨(Huw Roberts)说:“我们不会升入云。我们正在添加新的功能,使云赋予了组合。”“在混合数据环境中,您有很多原因 - 在桌面,设备,云中或保持本地化。这些数据在一起。”

According to Roberts, the cloud-based environment will be largely transparent to users of the Connect edition. "If I'm an architect working in Microstation, my software is connected to the project I am working on and knows all of the standards about how to present every decision I make—how to graphically present things, what codes to use, what workflows to use and the approval process for my work within the project." Roberts says the new Connect service also will be backwards-compatible with older versions of Bentley's and competitor's software, citing its many users working in mixed environments.