Optimize your ground investigations
Regaining control, efficiency & confidence in your geotechnical workflows
What is OpenGround?
OpenGround offers secure, enterprise-grade geotechnical data management and reporting, trusted by engineering consultants, departments of transportation, and federal agencies to enable collaboration at every stage of the ground investigation lifecycle.
Enhance report quality
Utilize fully customizable configuration packs and report templates to align with corporate, client, and project needs.
Foster collaboration
Manage access to shared data across dispersed teams and the broader supply chain to support well-informed decision-making.
Improve data accessibility
Simplify complex tasks into repeatable workflows and provide secure cloud-based data access for design, modeling, and reporting.
Expand existing platforms
Seamlessly integrate with internal systems and third-party applications using APIs to enhance efficiency and future-proof ground investigation data.
OpenGround Videos
- i3 Cloud Service
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OpenGround i3 Cloud Service
OpenGround i3 hosting is a comprehensive cloud-based solution for managing and reporting geotechnical data. It facilitates connected workflows and enhanced collaboration throughout all stages of ground investigation. *OpenGround cloud services are made to scale to any organizational size and are required to run the associated application bundles. It includes:- Centralized project archive
- Data entry and field-based data capture
- Configurable borehole log production
- Site plans and quick section production
- Laboratory test reporting
- Excel integration for data analysis and reporting
- Power BI integration for enterprise reporting
- i5 Cloud Service
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OpenGround i5 Cloud Service
OpenGround i5 hosting offers all the functionalities of OpenGround i3, along with support for integrating in-house and third-party applications to enable expansion, automation, and custom workflows through the RESTful API.
*OpenGround cloud services are made to scale to any organizational size and are required to run the associated application bundles. It includes:
- All i3 capabilities
- Web API access for custom integrations
- Web API access for 3rd party integrations
- Base Application Bundle
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OpenGround Base Application Bundle
The Base application bundle is suitable for users in need of a project explorer, data interrogation tools, GIS mapping, data editing, report production (logs), attached documents, data entry profiles, mobile data capture, data import/export, and laboratory test data entry and reporting. It includes:
- Web portal: A website that your clients, engineers, or data suppliers can use to upload and view borehole data.
- Data collector: A mobile application for field-based geotechnical data collection with OpenGround connectivity.
- Data entry: A desktop application providing an efficient, simplified user experience for users who just need to add and edit borehole data.
- Advanced Application Bundle
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OpenGround Advanced application bundle
The Advanced application bundle is ideal for users requiring the capabilities of the Base application, along with additional features such as report production for sections or site plans, Excel integration, integration with Civil 3D and Bentley Civil Design Software, user management and access controls, configuration pack management, component transfer, data model management, import/export mappings, and report template design. It includes:
- Web portal: A website that your clients, engineers, or data suppliers can use to upload and view borehole data.
- Data collector: A mobile application for field-based geotechnical data collection with OpenGround connectivity.
- Data entry: A desktop application providing an efficient, simplified user experience for users who just need to add and edit borehole data.
- Professional: A desktop application that provides a comprehensive data management and borehole logging solution for geotechnical and geoenvironmental site investigators.
- Excel extension: A desktop application that works with Microsoft Excel, enabling dynamic querying and viewing of your OpenGround cloud data directly.
- Admin Portal: A website where administrators can update configuration items for their OpenGround cloud system.
- Template Studio: A desktop application where your administration team can design template outputs for your legs, sections, and site plans.
- Civil 3D extension: A desktop application that works inside Autodesk Civil 3D, enabling dynamic querying and viewing of your OpenGround cloud data.
- Geotechnical Extension: A desktop application that works inside Bentley’s Open Applications (OpenRoads, OpenRail, OpenTunnel, OpenBridge and OpenSite), enabling users to easily import and visualize geotechnical data in plan, 3D, profile, and cross-section views, bringing the richness of subsurface information directly into the design process.
OpenGround i3 Cloud Service
OpenGround i3 hosting is a comprehensive cloud-based solution for managing and reporting geotechnical data. It facilitates connected workflows and enhanced collaboration throughout all stages of ground investigation. *OpenGround cloud services are made to scale to any organizational size and are required to run the associated application bundles. It includes:- Centralized project archive
- Data entry and field-based data capture
- Configurable borehole log production
- Site plans and quick section production
- Laboratory test reporting
- Excel integration for data analysis and reporting
- Power BI integration for enterprise reporting
OpenGround i5 Cloud Service
OpenGround i5 hosting offers all the functionalities of OpenGround i3, along with support for integrating in-house and third-party applications to enable expansion, automation, and custom workflows through the RESTful API.
*OpenGround cloud services are made to scale to any organizational size and are required to run the associated application bundles. It includes:
- All i3 capabilities
- Web API access for custom integrations
- Web API access for 3rd party integrations
OpenGround Base Application Bundle
The Base application bundle is suitable for users in need of a project explorer, data interrogation tools, GIS mapping, data editing, report production (logs), attached documents, data entry profiles, mobile data capture, data import/export, and laboratory test data entry and reporting. It includes:
- Web portal: A website that your clients, engineers, or data suppliers can use to upload and view borehole data.
- Data collector: A mobile application for field-based geotechnical data collection with OpenGround connectivity.
- Data entry: A desktop application providing an efficient, simplified user experience for users who just need to add and edit borehole data.
OpenGround Advanced application bundle
The Advanced application bundle is ideal for users requiring the capabilities of the Base application, along with additional features such as report production for sections or site plans, Excel integration, integration with Civil 3D and Bentley Civil Design Software, user management and access controls, configuration pack management, component transfer, data model management, import/export mappings, and report template design. It includes:
- Web portal: A website that your clients, engineers, or data suppliers can use to upload and view borehole data.
- Data collector: A mobile application for field-based geotechnical data collection with OpenGround connectivity.
- Data entry: A desktop application providing an efficient, simplified user experience for users who just need to add and edit borehole data.
- Professional: A desktop application that provides a comprehensive data management and borehole logging solution for geotechnical and geoenvironmental site investigators.
- Excel extension: A desktop application that works with Microsoft Excel, enabling dynamic querying and viewing of your OpenGround cloud data directly.
- Admin Portal: A website where administrators can update configuration items for their OpenGround cloud system.
- Template Studio: A desktop application where your administration team can design template outputs for your legs, sections, and site plans.
- Civil 3D extension: A desktop application that works inside Autodesk Civil 3D, enabling dynamic querying and viewing of your OpenGround cloud data.
- Geotechnical Extension: A desktop application that works inside Bentley’s Open Applications (OpenRoads, OpenRail, OpenTunnel, OpenBridge and OpenSite), enabling users to easily import and visualize geotechnical data in plan, 3D, profile, and cross-section views, bringing the richness of subsurface information directly into the design process.
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How OpenGround Is Helping CMW Geosciences Improve Analysis, Be More Competitive, And Increase Value
In 2022, they now hold 68,000 boreholes, constituting some 671,000 metres of drill logs centrally, improving collaboration for better, data-informed decisions by all project contributors.
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FAQs
OpenGround is a secure, cloud-based geotechnical information management solution for collecting, managing, analyzing, reporting and sharing geotechnical data.
OpenGround’s solution comprises of two key components:
- A Cloud Services Subscription – to store the organization’s geotechnical data and configurations.
- Persona Subscriptions (Application Bundles) – for users within that organization to have access to the capabilities based on their roles.
These two components have to be purchased separately and both are required to use OpenGround. You however do not need a Cloud Services Subscription if you have been given access to an instance of OpenGround owned by another organization and would only need access to a Persona Subscription.
OpenGround Instances are currently hosted in the UK, USA, Canada, Mainland Europe, and Australia.
See Product Information Section.
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