What People Are Saying About V8i - Highlights
"All of the software used on the project should work together, and making it work together should be easy.”
- Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
“An informative white paper that details the approach…Bentley has chosen to use, it is easier to understand than anything on the SEI website.”
- Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
“The present global economic turmoil has companies trying to save money …IT is more important than ever to companies trying to do be more efficient.”
- Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
“…information technology plays a central role in successfully executing infrastructure projects.”
- Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
“...they needed a package flexible enough to be used on any kind of infrastructure project anywhere.”
- Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
"...in getting re-acquainted with the enormous range of the Bentley portfolio and the intense work that has gone into the new release, it’s certainly not a sign of a company that is slowing down and losing steam."
- Lachmi Khemlani, AECbytes
"The V8i is more than a sum of its parts – even if there is a whole lot of parts."
- MicroStation Connections
"MicroStation V8i is a landmark release."
- Matthew VanSweden, Integrated Architecture, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"But that little i might as well stand for something bigger than all of us—for the power lines, utility networks, bridges, and roadways around us that we take for granted."
- Cadalyst
"The emphasis of V8i is on collaborative tools for creating, maintaining, and operating infrastructure. Maintaining data interoperability throughout all of the products—and there are dozens—is a key feature..."
- Architectural Record
"V8i features SharePoint integration that allows ProjectWise managed content to be displayed alongside information from other sources through a SharePoint Web portal. Kentucky doesn’t like to be left behind, and we’re motivated by all of these advantages to move to V8i."
- Alex Smith, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Frankfort, Kentucky
"With V8i, Bentley has introduced an interoperability layer that manages information and enables users to share it in practical ways depending on the applications."
- MicroStation Connections
"As always, existing MicroStation data will be compatible with this update."
- AEC Magazine
"MicroStation V8i has allowed us to incorporate live digital information from Word, Excel, PDF, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Google Earth and various image formats into a single document. The MicroStation V8i platform gives us the advantage to utilize all our digital assets to create deliverables like never before."
- Keith Macomber, director of design technology, LPA Sacramento, Sacramento, California
"What’s important here, though, is that the issue does transcend marketing and it even transcends competition."
- MicroStation Connections
"The transition to ‘Athens’ will be both easy and challenging. The easy part is taking existing methods and workflow forward, simply taking advantage of the interface and tool enhancements and additions. . . . The challenging part will be the transition to a 3D workflow. However this challenge is not posed by the software, it is primarily about process and mindset."
- AEC Magazine
"It's a commendable customer-driven trend to integrate products that work seamlessly together in order to better enable information reuse across multidiscipline teams."
- John Peddie Research
"Saving time and working faster is really what it’s all about. "
- Stuart Willows, Wm Saunders Partnership LLP, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
"Developing a wide range of applications for the largest projects makes features available to smaller projects that would otherwise not be feasible."
- AEC Magazine
"In the end, perhaps then, it’s not surprising that the solution is not one of will but rather of technology – both hardware and software."
- MicroStation Connections