“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 http://www.bargewaggoner.com/

Project Team Collaboration for AEC

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

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.

Bentley® and Microsoft are committed to propelling the AEC and operations sectors in manufacturing to the next level of innovation and change management. Bentley and Microsoft’s joint offering to construction engineers provides integrated enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed business decisions, finding the right information regardless of where it is located, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries—resulting in optimal decision making in incredibly complex infrastructure projects.

When integrated, ProjectWise and SharePoint empower distributed project teams to:

• Maximize employee utilization, increase revenues and reduce redundancy

• Shorten time-to-market by streamlining content access and collaboration

• Reduce project rework, meet project deadlines and avoid late-delivery penalties

Solution OverviewProjectWise 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.

All ProjectWise server technologies reside on the Microsoft Windows Server® platform and seamlessly integrate with the world’s favorite AEC design platforms—MicroStation® and AutoCAD®. ProjectWise Web Server™ uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and ProjectWise Integration Server™ uses the Microsoft SQL Server™ database.

Naturally, ProjectWise desktop applications also integrate seamlessly with all leading Microsoft Office applications to manage, find and share specifications, programs, bills of materials and other documents. The new innovations of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will deliver further benefits in the end user’s experience, performance and productivity.

Key offerings:

• Enterprise-level engineering content management

• Optimizations for geographically distributed project teams

• Design review environments for content creators, collaborators and consumers

• Multi-channel publishing tools for project deliverables

• Business Intelligence for asset management and compliance

• Seamless integration with engineering and other desktop applications

• 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.

• 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

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.

Contact Info Bentley

685 Stockton Drive Exton, PA 19341, USA Joe Croser, Global Marketing Director Phone: +1 (610) 458-6290 E-mail: Joe.Croser@Bentley.com

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, USA Joanne Clark, Global Business Development Manager Phone: +1 (978) 887 0229 E-mail: joanne.clark@microsoft.com

Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, ProjectWise, and Connected by ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

© 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is for information purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Microsoft, the Microsoft logo, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Windows Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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About BentleyBentley 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 http://www.bentley.com.

Customer ReferencesMultidiscipline AE firm maximizes employee utilization and increases revenue per head by 25 percent

• www.bentley.com/BWSCProjectWise

Civil design firm reduces project rework by 200–300 hours on road design projects

• www.bentley.com/BakerProjectWise

Engineering Procurement Contractor shortens project lead time by 30 percent in world’s fastest growing economy

• www.bentley.com/NCPEProjectWise

About Microsoft in Product Lifecycle ManagementMicrosoft’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.

About MicrosoftFounded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com/industry/manufacturing