Bentley Map Mobile not free application?

Hello,
I am afraid that this was answered yet
communities.bentley.com/.../116816
Bentley passport connections for about 100 dollars per year.
Pavel

Hi Pavel,

I think it's not answered, because Bentley web tells clearly Bentley Map Mobile is free application:

As was discussed many times in different forums, to charge mobile viewing application today is nothing else than recommendation to use competitors' solution. But it's Bentley's decision. For me the bigger problem is that it's nearly impossible to find any clear information without marketing craps, incorrect, obsolete or fuzzy information how Bentley products are licensed, when registraction or login is required and what it means etc. Bentley spends a lot of time and lot of money to make their users' life harder and more complicated.

With regards,

  Jan

Jan, Pavel and others,
Thanks very much for your responses and inputs on this thread. With respect to the cost of Bentley Map Mobile, we can see how the materials are currently confusing, and we’ll take steps to clarify that.

Beyond that, we certainly appreciate your comments regarding licensing and how are products are promoted on the web site. Generally we try to give users an idea of the capabilities of a product so they can decide if that product might be suitable for their application. The implementation details are typically left to support forums or the Bentley Institute as a place for learning. However with Bentley Map Mobile it seems a discussion of the publishing process might be a good idea to give users an idea of the workflow involved. We will try to make the process more clear on the main Bentley Map Mobile page.

Again, we appreciate the input and feedback and will direct the comments to the appropriate product managers.

Hello,
I would like to ask Bentley for more information to this page:
www.bentley.com/.../select-connect
.
Am I right, when our company have Select Subscription, than how many products we have in Select, for example, so much Bentley Map Mobile's application can we use without Bentley Connections Passport?
Thank you for explaining or giving more information!
Pavel

One of the benefits of the SELECT CONNECT Edition is unlimited access to the apps described on the page referenced above. You do require a CONNECT login but not a passport. Essentially the use of those apps has become a benefit of SELECT.

Thank you for quick response!
I'm looking forward "I'll be back" as BMM user.
Pavel

Hi Keith,

Unknown said:

One of the benefits of the SELECT CONNECT Edition is unlimited access to the apps described on the page referenced above.

That's great news (I learned it a few weeks ago) and I agree with Pavel it can be a reason to "be back" for plenty of users. Unfortunately there is "close to zero" marketing coverage currently (especially from local non English native users' perspective), so in my opinion the most of people don't know about recent changes in SELECT advantages.

Unknown said:

You do require a CONNECT login but not a passport.

The informations are not consistent and as such are cofusing: On this page, directly linked as a source of more detail informations, is stated: Bentley Map Mobile is free to download but requires a Bentley CONNECT login and Bentley CONNECTIONS Passport for use.

With regards,

  Jan

Hi Keith,

Unknown said:

One of the benefits of the SELECT CONNECT Edition is unlimited access to the apps described on the page referenced above.

That's great news (I learned it a few weeks ago) and I agree with Pavel it can be a reason to "be back" for plenty of users. Unfortunately there is "close to zero" marketing coverage currently (especially from local non English native users' perspective), so in my opinion the most of people don't know about recent changes in SELECT advantages.

Unknown said:

You do require a CONNECT login but not a passport.

The informations are not consistent and as such are cofusing: On this page, directly linked as a source of more detail informations, is stated: Bentley Map Mobile is free to download but requires a Bentley CONNECT login and Bentley CONNECTIONS Passport for use.

With regards,

  Jan

Thanks for pointing that out. I will get it updated as soon as possible!

That potential Users of the Mobile Map App can now simply register on-line for a Bentley ID and then use published I-models from our site is a huge step forward and I think will certainly be of benefit to Bentley in the long run.
As a SELECT subscriber we have some potential internal Users for Map Mobile but we also have a number of external contractors who may need to use our published I-models. These external contractors range in size and some don't have existing GIS or even CADD software but may well be at a point where they are investigating purchase of these types of software.
As an existing Bentley Site, the fact that we're publishing I-models and these external contractors can use the Map Mobile App to view our published I-models is now making a number of companies aware of Bentley and it's products. One existing SELECT site such as ourselves could 'introduce' Bentley to dozens or hundreds of other companies by this simple change in policy without the hindrance of Passports.
Making this process EASIER, not harder for existing Bentley Sites is obviously in the interests of Bentley as well as ourselves.
:-)