Reasons to Upgrade ProjectWise Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 3)

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1 Reasons to Upgrade ProjectWise Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 3)

2 ProjectWise V8i (SELECTseries 3) Themes AutoCAD and Revit 64-bit Administration and Usability Performance Compatibility and Ease of Upgrade Not a complete list of changes in V8i (SELECTseries 3)

32 bit 2010 64 and 32 bit AutoCAD Version Support:

3 AutoCAD and Revit 64-bit Support Now support 64-bit and 2011 products Revit Version Support: and 32 bit and 32 bit AutoCAD Version Support: and 32 bit and 32 bit bit bit

4 Granular Administration Allow organizations to delegate responsibility for certain administrative functions to specific users without providing them full access to all administrative functions Access to administrative functions set by node: Access to administrative functions set by node: Workflow Environments Workspace Etc.

5 Granular Administration

6 Group/User List Membership Mgmt Allow non-administrator users to manage membership of Groups/User Lists Available from PW Admin and PW Explorer Must be a Group/UL owner (or in Administrator Group) to modify membership Each Group/UL may have multiple owners Requires a V8i (SELECTseries 3) datasource for full editing capabilities from ProjectWise Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 3) Explorer connecting to previous version datasource will allow read-only access to this dialog

7 Group/User List Membership Management

8 Simplified Access Control Interface Provide easier user experience for reviewing and setting access control for projects, folders and documents Does not provide any additional editing rights beyond what is already available to user Provides mechanism for applying access control templates Apply settings to other folders Export/Import access control settings

9 Access Control Editor User Interface

10 ProjectWise Navigator Web Part SharePoint 2010, 2007 and stand-alone IIS integration Interactive 3D model visualization 2D plan set review Simple analysis capabilities: content search, dimension measuring, business data review.

11 Supports viewing 2D plan sets Free text search & Simple search builder Business properties to review and search by Integrated with ProjectWise workflow Dimension measuring Interactive 3D / 2D Viewing inside a browser

12 Administration and Usability Granular administration Group/User list management Simplified access control interface in preview pane Audit trail improvements Available storage area disk-space dialog New datasource statistics Removal of BRG file Classless inter-domain routing PDF file property indexing

13 High Latency Performance Optimizations Optimize a number of ProjectWise operations when used in a high latency environment Typically reduces the number of request/response roundtrips between ProjectWise Explorer and Integration Server Enhanced operations include: Document list display and folder navigation in ProjectWise Explorer and integrated dialogs in applications Login MicroStation file open MicroStation reference file attachment Titleblock update operations

14 High Latency Performance Examples Action (SELECTseries 2) 300 ms Login last used folder enabled Select subfolder PW Explorer content list or in integrated dialog (SELECTseries 3) 300 ms Improvement 36 sec 22 sec 64% 7 sec 3 sec 133% Display file list 7 sec 3 sec 133% File open from PW Explorer MicroStation with titleblocks enabled Update titleblocks from MicroStation Copy out multiple files 59 sec 38 sec 55% 44 sec 25 sec 76% 114 sec 94 sec 21%

be actions like managed workspaces with lots of

15 File Transfer Connection Sharing Reduce overhead when transferring lots of files Main benefit will be actions like managed workspaces with lots of smaller files 60%+ performance improvements possible

16 File Transfer Connection Sharing Time to launch MicroStation with managed workspace enabled MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2) Managed workspace with 14 CSBs and 1100 files totaling about 118 Mb Local network(no latency) V8i (SELECTseries 2) V8i (SELECTseries 3) Improvement Initial Open (copy out all workspace files) Second Open (validate workspace is up to date) 6:33 2:30 65% 0:14 0:13 7%

17 Install Over Installation Capability Allow 1-step upgrade of previous V8i releases Supports ProjectWise Explorer, Administrator, Caching Server and Gateway Service Avoids un-install/re-install Works between SELECTseries releases, but not between major releases PW Explorer still supports side-by-side installation for major releases Supports automated install mechanisms (SMS, msiexec scripts, etc)

18 ProjectWise Client/Server Compatibility Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 3) Integration Server V8i (SELECTseries 2) Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 3) X X X Integration Integration Server V8i Server V8i (SELECTseries 1) Integration Server pre-v8i Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 2) X X X Explorer V8i (SELECTseries 1) X X X Explorer V8i X X X X Explorer pre-v8i X ProjectWise Admin Clients must match server version

19 V8i (SELECTseries 3) Compatibility Servers Windows 2008 R2 64-bit Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit Windows 2003 R2 64-bit Windows 2003 R2 32-bit Clients Windows 7 32 and 64-bit Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit Windows XP 32 and 64-bit Databases Oracle 11g Oracle 10g SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 SP2 SQL Server 2005 Compatibility table published in the ProjectWise readme

20 V8i (SELECTseries 3) Compatibility MicroStation 8.11.x, 8.9.x, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x PowerDraft 8.11, 8.9.3, V8.5.x, V8.1, V7.1.x Bentley View Bentley Navigator , (V8i SELECTseries 2) Bentley i-model Composer , (V8i SELECTseries 2) AutoCAD 32-bit 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 AutoCAD 64-bit 2011, 2010 Revit 2011, 2010 (64 and 32-bit) Microsoft Office 2007, 2003 Project 2007, 2003 Visio 2007, 2003 Application integration compatibility table published on Be Communities at / aspx and in the ProjectWise readme

21 V8i SELECTseries 3 Themes AutoCAD and Revit 64-bit Administration and Usability Performance Compatibility and Ease of Upgrade

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