What is the point to the CONNECTION CENTER?

I am in a small architecture firm. We only have 4 seats and this seams like a lot of technical stuff we'll never use.

We can't connect to anyone because we're the only firm in southwest Florida (that I know of) that still uses Bentley products.

I can't upgrade my workstations to Aecosim Connect because it's so power hungry it crashes (unless they've fixed it I'm scared to try)

My point is, now I have a dialogue box called "CONNECTION Center" what am I connected too?

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  • Thanks, I've read the "company line" I was looking for a discussion about the actual "real" benefits of Connect.

    My firm is the only architecture firm in southwest florida that still uses Bentley products, we have no consultants using Bentley, who am I connecting to??

    If I understand correctly I can only share Bentley products with Bentley users so I can't use it to share files...

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  • Sadly all they have is the company line. I have know Glenn for years and he really wants to help but I am sure that Bentley is telling him to shut up and follow the company line. It is very sad as Bentley used to be customer centric, now we have to hire a third party support company because our SELECT fees no longer pay for timely support.

    The real benefits are for Bentley. They want to push support and administration off on users where MVARs used to do the work. They set unrealistic rules and take away your ability to use software you bought and paid for and continued to pay SELECT fees on if you make a single mistake on the unclear manner is which this initiative was forced on their users.