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Bentley Map CONNECT Edition Technology Preview?

Rod Wing
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I haven't seen any mention of this on the forum, so I'll ask...

Will there be a Bentley Map Technology Preview (or Beta) for the CONNECT Edition similar to what we had for MicroStation CONNECT and Bentley Map SS4?

If so, when is that expected to happen?

In working with MicroStation CONNECT workspaces and the changes to the user configuration level I would imagine that this will require a substantial change in how Bentley Map workspaces are set up. I would also like to start planning for any XFM feature migration required from Map SS4 to Map CONNECT. 

Thanks.

  • 0 Offline in reply to Gijsbert

    Hi,
    it's 2018 and to bring that back to Agenda... when can we expect Bentley Map CONNECT to be published?

    Is there any Information about that? I couldn't find anything and depending on release date we'd like to migrate to ProjectWise / Microstation / Map CONNECT and Oracle 12c.

    Best Regards,
    Maik

  • 0 Offline in reply to Gijsbert
    "(expected near of the end of February 2016) " should obviously be "(expected near of the end of February 2017)" My apologies.


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  • 0 Offline in reply to ttsmith
    Thank you for bringing this topic back up. My apologies for not specifically posting in this thread, but our FAQ communities.bentley.com/.../24672.bentley-map-v8i-vs-connect-edition was update late November last year (2016) with the information that there will be a Map CONNECT Edition.

    So answering your straightforward yes/no questions:

    1. Will there by a CONNECT Edition of Bentley Map (or some successor with a different name)?

    Yes.

    Initial development has already started, and once the next V8i Update release is completed (expected near of the end of February 2016) the whole Map development team will be on this. This is not a trivial project, so a release before the end of 2017 is uncertain at this time.

    2. If so, will it be included in a future release of OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition?

    No.

    At this point, the development of OpenRoads CONNECT is without Map capabilities, but at the same time I do not believe that now that we have a green light for Map CONNECT, a future integration is completely ruled out.

    Best regards,


    Gijsbert


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  • 0 in reply to Gijsbert

    Unknown said:
    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

    I know "soon" is a relative term, but three months with no update is stretching it, and since we're well in to 2017 I would hope you have some more definitive plans by now. 
    MicroStation CONNECT and Descartes CONNECT have been released, so we're good to go there. OpenRoads Designer CONNECT is in the second preview release so we can at least see the general release is on the horizon. The lack of information about Map is making it very difficult to plan anything related to CONNECT Edition.
    I've also noticed in your responses you haven't used the term "Map CONNECT Edition", you used "post-V8i generation", which could be very telling. So, I'll ask two simple yes/no questions that hopefully you can answer to at least shed a little light on where Map is going so we can plan accordingly....
    1. Will there be a CONNECT Edition of Bentley Map (or some successor with a different name)?
    2. If so, will it be included in a future release of OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition?
    Any other information you can provide (other than "we're working on it") would be very helpful.
    Thank you.
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