Integrated civil platform

Dusty - Our roadmap for the future has been presented several times at various conferences and other settings and will continue to be presented as it develops.  

One of the key aspects of our plans is to preserve your investment to a high degree.  For example, the roadway designer which has been a part of Inroads for years has now become a part of Geopak starting with XM SP2.  But the criteria road design workflow is also still included.  This allows you (the user) to train and transition to the newer tools on your schedule not ours.

Another example: The V8i civil products (Geopak, Inroads, MX and PowerCivil) contain the first bits of the civil platform to which you make reference (Civil GPS, Civil Accudraw and Roundabouts) And again, you (the user) make the decision whether to start using them alongside the older tools or ignore them and train for them later.  (I hope you choose the former because the new tools are pretty nifty, but that is your choice, not mine)

In technology there is an ever-present need for educating ourselves in the latest tools and methods as we all know.  But, obviously I cannot advise you how to set up your budgets.  I offer the above examples to show that we are serious in our commitment to NOT yank the rug out from under you.

Dusty - Our roadmap for the future has been presented several times at various conferences and other settings and will continue to be presented as it develops.  

One of the key aspects of our plans is to preserve your investment to a high degree.  For example, the roadway designer which has been a part of Inroads for years has now become a part of Geopak starting with XM SP2.  But the criteria road design workflow is also still included.  This allows you (the user) to train and transition to the newer tools on your schedule not ours.

Another example: The V8i civil products (Geopak, Inroads, MX and PowerCivil) contain the first bits of the civil platform to which you make reference (Civil GPS, Civil Accudraw and Roundabouts) And again, you (the user) make the decision whether to start using them alongside the older tools or ignore them and train for them later.  (I hope you choose the former because the new tools are pretty nifty, but that is your choice, not mine)

In technology there is an ever-present need for educating ourselves in the latest tools and methods as we all know.  But, obviously I cannot advise you how to set up your budgets.  I offer the above examples to show that we are serious in our commitment to NOT yank the rug out from under you.

Dusty - The Bentley Institute training materials for InRoads and GEOPAK are also designed for you to maximize your training investment and migration schedule to new technology and functionality. Our core courses are based on the most important and utilized tools and workflows in current production environments. Those courses are supplemented with additional feature, task, and workflow specific OnDemand training allowing you to choose exactly when and how much training best fits your needs and schedule. For additional information about Bentley Institute training visit www.bentley.com/LearningPaths.