• Facilitated Online Learning is back!

    Introductory level training for the day-to-day functionality of OpenGround
  • Introducing the OpenGround Ideas Portal

    We are pleased to announce our new OpenGround Ideas Portal, the way for you to submit OpenGround product ideas and suggestions requests directly to the OpenGround Product Team. This change is to enhance user experience and internal processes to ensure that the great ideas that come from the communities of OpenGround users are collected and regularly reviewed to grow our understanding of customer needs and ideas to influence…

  • Join us for our Second Ground to Cloud Webinar!

    Join us June 14th for our second Ground to Cloud Webinar. 11 am Eastern US time. 

    Jackson Drilling will be joining us for the June Webinar. They are a small company that adopted OpenGround and Data Collector and will discuss how they have gained efficiencies with their site investigations and improved data accuracy using OpenGround. 

    Our “Drill In” segments will investigate Data Importing, User Management and Licensing…

  • OpenGround Launcher - New version available!

    A new version of the OpenGround Launcher is now available from the Bentley Software Downlads.

    v.10.0.0.569 - Released 09th May 2023

    • Added Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022. This fixes issues with updates to the Launcher Service Pack.

     Launcher Release Notes  

  • Security Improvements: User Account Deactivation policies

    Over time, users leave the organization, move department or simply no longer require access. Sometimes, an access will be granted to the supply chain or a client for a short period of time. This is why it is so important to keep the list of active users as accurate as possible. Stale user accounts are a significant security issue and also consume reclaimable database space. As part of the ongoing OpenGround security improvements…

  • Join us to our first Ground to Cloud Webinar on March 8, 2023 11:00 AM EST

    Calling all gINT and HoleBase users! Are you looking for information on the email sent out giving the desktop support timeline? Join us for our Ground to Cloud webinar series where we will provide you with truthful, honest information and answer any questions you may have.

    We understand that change can be difficult, but we're here to help you make informed decisions during the transition from desktop to cloud.

    For our…

  • Going Digital Webinar Series: Winner for Geoprofessional - Mott MacDonald (8th March)

    Winner of the Going Digital Awards Geoprofessional category, Mott MacDonald will take you through their winning project: Driving Efficiency And Sustainability In Material Reuse Through GeoBIM.

    On the N1N2 90-kilometer section of HS2 Phase 1 rail route in the UK there is approximately 25 million cubic meters of material earmarked for excavation, making the volume of earthworks one of the largest sources of carbon emissions…

  • Important news about gINT product support effective January 1st 2023

    We are writing this article today to inform you of some upcoming changes to gINT product support.

    Launched in 1986, gINT became the market standard borehole log production application across the globe. It is, however, a generation of software architecture that cannot be future-proofed for modern operating systems or manage ever-increasing data volumes. Therefore, Seequent has made the difficult decision to begin phasing…

  • Important news about HoleBASE product support effective January 1st 2023

    We are writing this article today to inform you of some upcoming changes to HoleBASE product support.

    Since HoleBASE’s launch in 2011, it has provided geotechnical data management and log production capabilities for ground investigation organizations globally. However, as project requirements and technology continue to evolve, cloud-based solutions are enabling greater collaboration, increased data access, enhanced…

  • OpenGround Data Collector Update 3.4 has been released!

     What’s New in Data Collector Update 3.4 (v.10.3.0.96)
    • Ability to customize Shift enabled data entry profiles
    • Ability to attach a shift log to location to keep track of what has been logged within a shift
    • Improve the process of copying a data entry profile within a configuration pack
    • Add description to photos
    • Bug fixes
  • Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Data Manager Update November 30, 2022

    Title: Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022

    Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

    Presenters: Katie Aguilar, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems, Inc. and Jesse Greenwald, Application Engineer, Geotechnical, Geotechnical Information Management, Bentley Systems, Inc.

    Register Now!

    Our team continues to keep you informed of updates, developments…

  • Follow the new OpenGround LinkedIn Page for Tips & Tricks

    We are pleased to announce that we have started posting on our new LinkedIn page announced as part of the recent communication that OpenGround is now part of Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company.

    Our LinkedIn Page will contain information on all the events we are attending and holding, both online and offline, together with Top Tips from our team and best practice articles for Geotechnical Information Management…

  • Ground Engineering OpenGround Webinar - 25th October

    Ground Engineering and Seequent are presenting a free webinar on the topic of geotechnical data management and cloud technology.

    Seequent business development director Roger Chandler and Arup associate Mark Skinner are the main speakers for the webinar on 25 October.

    They will discuss how geotechnical data is critical to engineering projects, and that conventional, manual processes for collecting, processing and deriving…

  • Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Title: Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

    Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    Presenters: Katie Aguilar - Senior Application Engineer - Bentley Systems, Inc., Philip Child - Senior Consultant, GeoTechnical Information Management - Bentley Systems, Inc.

    Register Now!

    We are working to keep you informed about OpenGround and new and exciting developments…

  • Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Title: Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

    Presenters: Katie Aguilar, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems, Inc., and Philip Child, Senior Consultant, Geotechnical Information Management, Bentley Systems, Inc.

    Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    Register Now!

    We are working to keep you informed about OpenGround and new and exciting developments…

  • OpenGround Power BI Connector is now available!

    OpenGround Power BI Connector is now available and can be installed from the OpenGround Launcher!

    Please refer to Installation and How to get started for more details.

  • Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Title: Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information – Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022

    Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

    Presenter: Katie Aguilar, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems, Inc., Oliver Carnaby, Consultant, Bentley Systems, Inc.

    Register Now!

    Join the entire GIM Professional Services Team for our updated Coffee Corner where we will meet and discuss OpenGround. Topics may…

  • Don’t let shift changes become a black hole for your drilling data

    Shift Support in OpenGround can be an invaluable tool in ensuring shift changes happen more smoothly and productively, says Product Manager Marie-Claude Dubé. It makes life easier for the teams on the rig, while also giving owner operators fine-detail insight into what’s been achieved on each shift.

    However well organised your drilling may be, there is always one crack that your productivity could slip through…

  • Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information - Geotechnical Data Manager Update

    Title: Coffee Corner: Geotechnical Information - Geotechnical Data Manager Update
    Presenter: Katie Aguilar, Phil Child
    Date and Time: July 27, 2022 at 11:00 AM EST

    Register Now!

    The Geotechnical Information Management (GIM) Professional Services Team has been busy the past few months. But we have not forgotten about our central purpose: you and your organization. We have been working behind the scenes to update content…

  • Come Meet the Team at Geotechnica in the UK

    Are you attending Geotechnica 2022? Come and visit us at the Seequent booth (#24A) to see the latest advances in geotechnical data management. A number of our team will be around over the two days of the event, so if you have been wanting to get in touch with a certain member of the OpenGround team, come and say hello!

    Here is our schedule for who is about;

    Wednesday 6th July Alex Clarke Customer Success Manager

  • OpenGround Cloud Data Collector CONNECT Edition Update 3 has been released!

     What’s New in Data Collector Update 3 (v.10.3.0.20)
    • Driller Shift Support: ability to record the time spend on a specific investigation location! Tracking of shifts to help manage field operations. Shifts are tracked on a per location basis so multiple crews can be working on a site simultaneously. Because shifts are tracked per location, one user may have multiple shifts throughout a work session such as when moving…
  • Come and meet Simba at our Geo-Congress Booth.

    simba muchineripiFace-to-face conferences are back!

    We are so glad to be out on the road again and look forward to catching up with our users at our Bentley and Seequent booths at Geo-Congress in Charlotte March 20 – 23.

    So much has changed in the two years since we last exhibited at Geo-Congress that we highly recommend that you take 10 minutes out of your schedule to come and share a coffee and news with the Bentley and Seequent…

  • Project Recycle Bin added to OpenGround alongside other Fixes and Improvements

    A new capability to restore deleted projects is available in the February 2022 release.

    A deleted project will live in the recycle bin for 90 days from this release onwards. A user can select the new Recycle Bin option from the System ribbon, select the project, and then restore it to its original state within the 90 day period but the project will be removed from the recycle bin and fully deleted after the 90 days. Projects…

  • New License-Free OpenGround Upload Portal

    We are pleased to announce that the Data Upload features for OpenGround are now available to use license-free via the new upload portal.

    Any user with an OpenGround login, can visit the upload portal, select the appropriate project from the projects they have been granted access to, and upload CSV, gINT or AGS data directly to the import queue for the project.

    This feature allows data to be checked and validated before…