• TRUSTED Licenses - Add a Switch to either ALLOW or NOT ALLOW this feature

    All I have many many clients that hate being able to go over their quota of licenses. They hate even more that Bentley will charge them a quarterly fee for such pleasures. I have been speaking to my clients which include; RSHP, Grimshaws, PLP, AECOM…
  • Can SELECT Open Access and SELECT Agreement amended according to local country law?

    Dear Support, I received an email from one of our client that purchased Microstation Perpetual license last year and denied to sign the SOA and SELECT Agreement due to below reasons: (a) We note that the agreement is governed under the laws of Ireland…
  • CALENDAR HOUR TIME-KEEPING IS THE PROBLEM!

    As has been posted in other threads, the calendar hour time-keeping method has been giving a lot of people grief. To me it really is the source of all of the overuse issues for companies like mine who are more than willing to pay for a set number of licenses…
  • Open Access Complaint

    I am part of a structural engineering consulting firm that uses several structural analysis software(s) from RAM/Bentley. We have been satisfied with the software up until around a month ago when the comically absurd pricing scheme was explained upon…
  • RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware

    Although Microstation uses machine based licensing and any user can work on local computer without needing additional license for each keep in mind that if using Windows Remote desktop it actually relays machine name to client computer so programs see…
  • RE: Can we NOT opt to neither Select Open nor Select Basic?

    I would like to clarify that the choice between Open vs. Basic Access is not a change in licensing schema. The ability to use more software than owned quantities has been part of the licensing schema since 2006 when we implemented key based licensing…
  • RE: SELECT subscription changes for 2014

    Hi Stuart, I understand your confusion and would be happy to answer some questions regarding the SELECT Open Access program. First, let me say that our SELECT Subscription representatives are currently in the process of calling subscribers to notify…