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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:22:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Mike Carlisle</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Current Revision posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Mike Carlisle on 4/23/2020 6:22:49 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when upgrading from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Utilities and Communications Networks, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/20</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:01:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 20 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 11/26/2015 11:01:02 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when upgrading from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Utilities and Communications Networks, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/19</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:48:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 19 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 11/24/2015 2:48:49 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when upgrading from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Utilities and Communications Networks, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/18</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 13:02:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 18 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 11/6/2015 1:02:07 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when upgrading from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Utility Network Analysis and Design, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/17</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:31:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 17 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/29/2015 8:31:47 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Utility Network Analysis and Design, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/16</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:30:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 16 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/29/2015 8:30:59 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Frequently asked questions, Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Utility Network Analysis and Design, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/15</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:07:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 15 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 4:07:31 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Utility Network Analysis and Design, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Release Information, Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/14</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:04:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 14 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 4:04:35 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Utility Network Analysis and Design, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/13</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:48:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 13 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 3:48:32 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5), and Citrix XenApp 7.6.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/12</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:53:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 12 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 2:53:55 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The default Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/11</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:42:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 11 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 2:42:44 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the &lt;a title="Bentley Application Support Lifecycle" href="/products/w/products__wiki/bentley-application-support-lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Bentley Application Support Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/10</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:39:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 10 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 2:39:50 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has &amp;quot;retired&amp;quot;. For more information see Microsoft&amp;#39;s &lt;a title="Windows lifecycle fact sheet " href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle" target="_blank"&gt;Windows lifecycle fact sheet &lt;/a&gt;and the [[Bentley Application Support Lifecycle|Bentley Application Support Lifecycle]].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2, 11g Release 1 and Release 2, and 12c Release 1 servers. On the client, it requires a full 10g or 11g 32-bit client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The Bentley&amp;nbsp;sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the Bentley OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the Bentley OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to Bentley OpenUtilities. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to Bentley OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the Bentley OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley OpenUtilities will require an installation of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first Bentley OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to Bentley OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to Bentley sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/9</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:33:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 9 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 1:33:10 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What does this mean for licensing?Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/8</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:28:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 8 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/23/2015 8:28:22 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a A desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What does this mean for licensing?Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be three Bentley&amp;nbsp;products for Utility Network Analysis and Design:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases are updated in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades, there is no migration needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the licensing implications for sisNET users?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For Bentley sisNET users, licensing is simplified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the Bentley sisNET product suite, the desktop clients are licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisNET (commodity-based) + Modules + MicroStation (+Bentley Map)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisFLOW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; sisVIEW (+ Bentley Map standalone)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities is licensed as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt;&amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Why is a MicroStation license no longer needed?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. These capabilities are available to users of the sisNET add-on In addition, sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW users will be able to use all of Bentlley Map&amp;#39;s capabilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating a sisNET implementation?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/7</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:38:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 7 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/22/2015 10:38:56 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a A desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/6</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:43:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 6 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 3:43:42 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Map?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities PowerView V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a desktop product to review, explore, and markup data created with either Bentley Utilities Designer or Bentley Utilities Map.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a A desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; It works with Bentley OpenUtilities Map or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is Bentley sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) is a web server to review, explore, and markup data that was created with Bentley sisNET (now part of Bentley OpenUtilities Designer) in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/5</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:29:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 5 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 3:29:26 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TBD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirements for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/4</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:26:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 4 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 3:26:33 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Requirements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TBD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Requirements&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What Operarating Systems are supported by OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows XP and Windows Vista series are not supported.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support virtual environments?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using Citrix XenApp versions 5.0, 6.0, and 6.5 on Windows Server 2008 (5.0) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (6.0 and 6.5).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is the minimum recommended workstation profile for installing OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) requires:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&amp;bull; Intel&amp;copy; or AMD&amp;copy; processor 3.0 GHz or greater&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; 2 GB free disk space minimum&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the database requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) can be implemented using number of different persistence models, including models that leverage Oracle and SQL Server databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with Oracle?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports Oracle 10g Release 2 and 11g Release 1 and Release 2 servers. On the client, it requires a full client installation 10g or 11g client installation.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirement for implementing OpenUtilities with SQL Server?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014 databases.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the requirments for adjusting or enhancing the industry standard data models that come with OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;In Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) data model definitions and macro routines used to generate a working Bentley OpenUtilities Map setup are stored in Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheets. Adjusting the standard data models delivered with the product, or creating new data models, will need a working version of Microsoft Excel 97 or higher.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Does OpenUtilities support integration with FME by SAFE Software?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) offers FME Desktop integration with FME Desktop Versions, 2013, 2014, and 2015 (32-bit).&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What are the network requirements for OpenUtilities?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley OpenUtilities Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Minimum network requirements are:&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Latency &amp;lt; 5 ms minimum, &amp;lt; 1 ms recommended&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/3</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:45:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 3 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 10:45:33 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TBD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/2</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:36:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 10:36:12 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table border="0"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Hello&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;this is a test&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;How wide can we go; this wide or&amp;nbsp;even wider?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;How wide can we go; this wide or&amp;nbsp;even wider? We do not want it to become too wide.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table style="width:890px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="262" style="width:197pt;" /&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="628" style="width:471pt;" /&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:14.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="19" style="width:197pt;height:14.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:101.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="135" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:101.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:116pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="155" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:116pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:43.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:130.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="174" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:130.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:72.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:101.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="135" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:101.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:43.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:43.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:72.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:72.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FAQ</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq/revision/1</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:58:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b8477e61-ff18-40d4-96d8-3f082f0c7ed6</guid><dc:creator>Gijsbert</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/utility_network_analysis___design/w/utility_network_analysis_and_design_wiki/24091/faq#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to OpenUtilities Wiki by Gijsbert on 9/18/2015 9:58:53 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley OpenUtillities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;General&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Todo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Migrating from Previous Versions&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table style="width:890px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="262" style="width:197pt;" /&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;&lt;colgroup&gt;&lt;col width="628" style="width:471pt;" /&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:14.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="19" style="width:197pt;height:14.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Question&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Answer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:101.5pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="135" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:101.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What is going to change?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley Utilities Designer is going to merge with the Bentley sisNET desktop products (sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW) into a new product called OpenUtilities. We are going to have three Bentley power products for utilities:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="height:116pt;"&gt;
&lt;td width="262" height="155" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:116pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the sisNET user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The sisNET desktop products &amp;ndash; sisNET, sisFLOW, sisVIEW &amp;ndash; will change from a layered application based on MicroStation and Bentley Map to an add-on for the OpenUtilities products:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Designer can be extended with a sisNET add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities Map can be extended with a sisFLOW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; OpenUtilities PowerView can be extended with a sisVIEW add-on&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The so-called sisNET modules &amp;ndash; e.g. HRM, IMB Connector &amp;ndash; will be included in the sisNET add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Can a sisNET user continue to work as before?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Yes. They will replace their traditional sisNET, sisFLOW and sisVIEW clients with OpenUtilities-based clients, and simply update their databases in the same way as with previous sisNET upgrades. There is no migration needed.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="174" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:130.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for the Bentley Utilities Designer user?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;&amp;bull; All functionality of Bentley Utilities Designer will be consolidated in the OpenUtilities Designer product.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities Map product is essentially the Bentley Utilities Designer graphical editor but will not include the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant modules included with the Designer product. There is also no SmallWorld or enterprise integration (for workflow management, e.g. with IBM Maximo) included in the package.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; The OpenUtilities PowerView product is a review and markup tool with a read-only interface for Oracle Spatial and SQL Server Spatial, while preserving the analytical, reporting, and print preparation tools.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean for licensing?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Each of the OpenUtilities products will have a separate product license.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There will be no separate licensing for the sisNET add-ons; use of the add-ons is covered by the licenses listed above. When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW licenses to OpenUtilities.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="135" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:101.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from sisNET?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley sisNET V8i users, the update to OpenUtilities is no different from sisNET updates in the past: it requires an installation of the new product(s) and a database update. All sisNET implementations can remain as they are.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisNET desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Designer with sisNET add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisFLOW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities Map with sisFLOW add-on.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;bull; Bentley sisVIEW desktop clients will become OpenUtilities PowerView with sisVIEW add-on.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Whas is the impact of OpenUtilities on sisIMS?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Bentley sisIMS will continue to exist in its current form, accompanying the OpenUtilities release to allow users of the sisNET, sisFLOW, and sisVIEW add-ons to use sisIMS to publish data in internet browsers.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="58" style="border:0px black;width:197pt;height:43.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;What does this mean when updating from Bentley Utilities Designer?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;For Bentley Utilities Designer users, upgrading to Bentley Open Utilities will require an installation OpenUtilities Designer and some minor updates to the database related to the Workflow Manager and Design Assistant.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities English be released?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="background:#d9d9d9;border:0px black;width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;A first OpenUtilities English release is not expected before the end of Q4, 2015. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This will be a V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, based on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) MR that was released at the end of Q2, 2015.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td width="262" height="97" style="width:197pt;height:72.5pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;When will OpenUtilities be released in other languages?&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="628" style="width:471pt;color:black;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;"&gt;The normal Bentley release policy with regards to other languages will apply to OpenUtilities. Allow for 3 to 6 months after the English release.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Note that this also applies to sisNET users, who &amp;ndash; up to this point &amp;ndash; are used to seeing German releases at the same time as the English release.&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Bentley OpenUtilities, FAQ, Bentley sisVIEW, Bentley sisIMS, Bentley Utilities Designer, V8i (SELECTseries 4), Bentley sisNET, Bentley sisFLOW&lt;/div&gt;
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