What benefits does CONNECTION CLIENT bring to an organisation?

Now that we have to have CC installed on all pc's with Bentley products perhaps someone could schedule out what benefits it brings to an organisation, because at the moment I am seeing very little. In all the time of it being installed on my pc (2 years + I would think) I have had no notifications as far as I can remember, and when it lets me know about an upgrade it's usually late as I've seen the announcement in the MicroStation forum. It would have an added benefit if it could let me know about upgrades to non CONNECT programs. I understand the reason why it doesn't that that is just a cop out.

Please don't just give me links to wikis, as that doesn't help. A real answer with a list would be good. 

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  • This registration requirement is not only a way to help us advance our services, but it also provides you with benefits that can improve your organization. Once your Bentley application users successfully complete this user registration requirement, they can take advantage of our new CONNECTservices that enable your project teams to collaborate, ensure your users master their use of Bentley software, and empower your users with the personal mobility to get their work done at any time from any place.

     

    ProjectWise Connection Services: Securely share and deliver application data, collaborating with other users. Create, send, and receive transmittals, submittals, and RFIs. Access content and BIM standards to support design and analytical modeling. Benefit from dashboards to review project status as well as to benchmark project performance.

     

    Adaptive Learning Services: Application mastery will be enabled through CONNECT Advisor, a new in-application service which provides contextual assistance and learning recommendations. Learning benefits previously provided through the Learn Subscription will now instead be made available to every SELECT and ELS subscriber. Services will include on-demand courses, live virtual training, in application short feature and workflow videos, personalized learning paths and knowledge maps, and more.

     

    Personal Mobility: Get access to Bentley apps, the tools you need to get your work done wherever you need to be - at the office, in the field, or on the site. Access project data, communicate with team members, and submit and resolve issues.

  • Glen. I understand what you are saying but the chances of our company using the ProjectWise Connection Service are practically zero, as my understanding is that you can only share i-models and pdfs, and have to be a Bentley user. As most of the organisations that we deal with want .dwgs and are not Bentley users then this is not a benefit to us. To be honest we use the company OneDrive to share documents, of all formats.

    Note that out of 28no. users only 4 have MicroStation CONNECT installed and only one (me) is any kind of regular user. Note that I still have to use SS4 due to the many niggles with CEU6.

    As for you last point re Personal Mobility I believe that you have to pay for the apps/programs required for this. If so then we are not likely to use this. We pay enough to Bentley every year as it is!!

    So overall the use of CONNECTION CLIENT has very little benefit to us which is why I feel aggrieved that we have install this progrtam just so that you can 'advance your services'.

  • Hi - You are referencing 'Personal Share' - which you are right in what it can do. However, we have continued to expand on 'Share' - which allows you to provide any type of file to other users (yes - it is much like one-drive but it integrates with your CONNECTED Projects). 'Share' is available as a Service once you create a project.

    Thanks

  • I have read somewhere that all people involved in a project need to be registered with Bentley for this. Is this correct? If so this is never likely to work. Why would clients and contractors register with you just to use a share facility? 

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