Media

"When the Autodesk-Bentley agreement was announced a few months ago, the inevitable question that emerged was whether this was a precursor to the acquisition of Bentley by Autodesk. But 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. Thus even though Bentley trails behind Autodesk when it comes to market share and overall size and revenue, it is evidently still a strong competitor to Autodesk."

- Lachmi Khemlani, AECbytes

"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 

"Bentley Systems reports that the lowercase i in V8i stands for intuitive (design modeling), interactive (dynamic views), intrinsic (geo-referencing), incredible (performance), and interoperable (with other Bentley and third-party products). 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 

We believe the infrastructure community will welcome the many valuable capabilities this new release provides – capabilities that can help improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of their teams, and the quality of their projects. But what we feel is really important to these organizations is the interoperability among this broad range of products that will yield higher-quality data and, ultimately, improved workflows across their global enterprises. The resultant increase in project cost-effectiveness will contribute to their ability to succeed as an enterprise and in continuing to grow their businesses and market shares.

- Edwin Ecob, senior principal consultant, Cambashi Ltd.

"Bentley's V8i shows a lot of promise… V8i will be critical in addressing issues such as ageing bridges, water system losses, energy and commodity supply, building efficiency, and environmental resilience."

- Geospatial Today

Bentley's V8i software portfolio includes scores of integrated products to give end users a set of solutions that are both tailored to their needs and standard to specific industries. It's a commendable customer-driven trend to integrate products that work seamlessly together in order to better enable information reuse across multidiscipline teams.

- Kathleen Maher, vice president, Jon Peddie Research