Hi, it's been almost 10 month since promis.e latest update (13.96) and over 1,5 years from latest major upgrade. Could anyone from Bentley share with us, what are current development plans for promis.e - with release ETA? Any plans for changing platform to CONNECT, which is Update 7 so far? What TFS are you planning to develop, which bugs will be solved?
Paying quite large annual SELECT fee for software, I'd expect at least some information. I am a bit frustrated with very slow development of Promis.e – it looks like that’s brilliant platform is a bit forgotten by Bentley, comparing to other products. Not even to mention, that all product catalogues are obsolete and in fact we have to create needed databases by ourselves.
Best regards,Wojtek
Hi Wojtek. Our development plans are generally not publicized, and that is not unique to Bentley. I can say that there are indeed plans for releasing Promis.e CONNECT. The plan is to release in 2018, and like MicroStation CONNECT, have more frequent updates. But, like all plans, that is subject to change. Promis.e is very "big" and complex when compared to other Bentley software, so adapting it to the new CONNECT platform takes a bit longer. Thank you for your patience and we are glad to know you are eager for more Promis.e!
Hi Matt. Thanks for your post. It's little unfortunate that the users don't know anything about future of the software they have. AFAIR some time ago a quarterly (?) updates were announced and it was normally published on that forum. Is it possible to share with us at least information, if SS8 will be updated or do we have to prepare to have a long wait for CONNECT?
Wojtek, there are no plans for any more V8i releases of Promis.e. Development work is focused on a CONNECT release.