1. ProjectWise® and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server Software for Connecting People and Information across Project Teams

2. Enabling innovation – connecting resources
In a global economy short on skills and long on innovation, architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) project teams are rapidly adopting ProjectWise and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to help streamline collaboration by:
Propelling the AEC and operations sectors to the next level of innovation and change management, via knowledge-based design processes
Providing integrated enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs for:
Effectively managing content and business processes
Enabling better-informed business decisions through dynamic design review
Finding the right information - in real-time - regardless of where it is located
Simplifying how people work together across boundaries
Empowering distributed project teams by:
Maximizing employee utilization, increasing revenues and reducing redundancy
Shortening time-to-market by streamlining content access and collaboration
Reducing project rework, and avoiding late-delivery penalties

3. Solution Overview
ProjectWise software connects people and information across project teams—no matter where they are located—and includes an integrated suite of desktop and server software for content management, content publishing and design review—to uniquely address the project needs of all connected stakeholders. ProjectWise is the only engineering project collaboration system to provide a choice of OnLine or OnPremise access and deployment options to ensure the right fit for teams of all shapes and sizes.
Key offerings:
Enterprise-level engineering content management
Optimizations for geographically distributed project teams
Design review environments for content creators, collaborators + consumers
Multi-channel publishing tools for project deliverables
Business Intelligence for lifecycle asset management and compliance
Seamless integration with engineering and other desktop applications
Flexible access and deployment options for teams of all shapes and sizes

4. A powerful joint solution founded on open standards
All ProjectWise server technologies reside on the Microsoft Windows Server® platform
Seamless integration with MicroStation® and AutoCAD®
ProjectWise Web Server™ uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
ProjectWise Integration Server™ uses the Microsoft SQL Server™ database
ProjectWise desktop applications integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office applications
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 delivers benefits in end user experience, performance and productivity
Key Benefits: Gain maximum ROI for your ProjectWise and SharePoint investment:
Save time finding, validating and accessing project information
Reduce project risk with a single source of truth for all project information
Improve quality and consistency of all project deliverables
Avoid late-delivery penalties, reduce last-minute rework, meet project deadlines
Maximize workforce utilization and share work across multiple offices

5. Solution Summary
Challenge: Increase team efficiency by overcoming common obstacles associated with having multiple disconnected systems for business, process, project accounting, and engineering information management.
Solution: Get connected. Through a SharePoint portal, teams benefit from enterprise-wide capabilities for centralizing access to information from many sources. When SharePoint is integrated with ProjectWise, project teams benefit from additional capabilities specific to engineering content management, content publishing and design review.
Results: ProjectWise users report average annual employee savings of 13 percent and many observe a ProjectWise return on investment between 10- and 40- times the cost to deploy. With results like these, it’s no surprise that 42 of the 50 leading organizations in the Engineering News Record Top 500 are now Connected by ProjectWiseSM.

6. Customer References Customer Quote
Multidiscipline AE firm maximizes employee utilization and increases revenue per head 25%
Civil design firm reduces project rework by 200–300 hours on road design projects
Engineering Procurement Contractor shortens lead time by 30%
Customer Quote
“People not being utilized 100 percent of the time is a cost and inefficiency for us. Through organization-wide adoption of ProjectWise and SharePoint, we have been able to increase utilization and raise the revenue per head by approximately 25 percent.”
David Davidson,
President & COO
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon

7. About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. Bentley is a leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News Record Top 500 design firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study. Bentley is a Microsoft Gold Certified Global Partner. For more information, visit
Contact Info
Bentley
685 Stockton Drive
Exton, PA
Joe Croser, Global Marketing Director
Phone: +1 (610)

8. About Microsoft in Innovation Management
Microsoft’s technologies, software, and infrastructure environment provide unequaled collaborative capabilities. With partner solutions built on these technologies, people have access to needed product information using wide-spread and familiar desktop tools, enabling a homogenous environment for design and information vaulting as well as connecting a community of users empowered to make fast and accurate decisions. The results: using real-time information to manage complex relationships, people can explore more design options, understand design intent, effectively reuse components and subassemblies in new product designs, drive rapid product development, and increase revenue by managing innovation and the entire product process. Microsoft, together with its partners, empowers manufacturing companies to drive innovation by accelerating PLM processes, offering:
Solutions providing enhanced real-time, collaborative capabilities (supporting both structured and ad-hoc collaboration)
Enterprise-grade project and portfolio management tools to efficiently manage the innovation process, based on familiar and wide-spread user interfaces.
Ability to leverage product information throughout the entire life cycle, in a distributed environment.
Impact on customers: Using real-time information to manage complex relationships, people can explore more design options, understand design intent, effectively reuse components and subassemblies in new product designs, drive rapid product development, and increase revenue by managing the entire product innovation process.

9. About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Contact Info
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Joanne Clark
Global Business Development Manager
Phone: +1 (978)

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