Bentley Map CONNECT Edition Technology Preview?

Is there a schedule now?

Thank you for asking. We are currently in the process of finalizing our plans for 2017. Please stay tuned...

Thank you for asking. We are currently in the process of finalizing our plans for 2017. Please stay tuned...

Hi Gijbert,

it would be great to stop to say "we are working on it" and to become more specific. CONNECT Edition platform was announced with big appluad in 2015, MicroStation is there more than a year, other product lines were released already (Descartes) or will be available at least as Technology Previews or Betas shortly (GenerativeComponents, OpenRoads Designer...), but no information about geo.

In such situation I understand my customers who have lost their confidence in Bentley geo focus and started to think about future and what platform to use. And loyal customers who like Bentley Map are disillusioned, because for more than year there is no clear information about plans and development direction. Also in mixed environment (MicroStation + BM) it often blocks migration to MicroStation, because IT people don't want to maintain two different workspaces and product lines (regardles sometimes they are used in different teams or departments).

With regards,

  Jan

If Bentley Map CONNECT will have the same old and ugly "Bentley Geospatial Administrator" then I better wait.

At least some insights what we could expect from Bentley Map CONNECT. It will be just a port to Microstation CE with migrated old and introduced new bugs or major update?

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At least some insights what we could expect from Bentley Map CONNECT. It will be just a port to Microstation CE with migrated old and introduced new bugs or major update?

It's exactly the information that were shared in disucssions for some other products and despite of because of time and software development constraints not always were reached fully or had to be changed, they have helped user to make preliminary decisions and plans. It's very usefull e.g. when budget and resources are planned annually.

Regards,

  Jan

Hello Jan,

I can only agree with you that it would be great if we are at the point of being able to be more specific. However, I can only be specific once the approvals are assured to move forward and we are not quite there yet, I hope you .

If in the eyes of the users we have been unclear where were going with Map, that is something I do not wish to take lightly. I was under the impression that we were clear enough that our focus in 2016 was always going to be on fine-tuning our product offering on the V8i platform (which we did, delivering two update releases and a third update release scheduled to be released before the end of the year). If that message did not come across clearly enough, I would like to apologize.

What I can say at this point is that the Map team is very seriously working on the plans for 2017, and that our ambition is to go beyond our goals for 2016 and shift focus to post-V8i generation development. I have faith that those plans should be a step in the right direction for all of us.

Once our plans are in place - which I expect to be (very) soon - I will inform you and the community.

Best regards,


Gijsbert

Honestly in each project we have tried to push Bentley Map it ended with stumbling upon critical bugs/missing features which makes BM not usable for production. If Bentley is really geo focused the development for Map should be more rapid and release priority patches and not just "will be fixed in next version" when actually it just don't happen.

For example:
#195654 issue that hole elements are lost after split command. Registered at 2015.03 and still not fixed but shouldn't take that long.
#222435 89 Associative region that are restricted, while they should not 2015.10
#217844 Corrupt DGN level table after SHP import 2014.02