ProjectWise

Great data-sharing product regardless of your platform!

Kommentare: Project data sharing next to none!

Vorteile:

Ability to share data anywhere in the world. The workflows and the ability to automate so many aspects of the sheet creation process is a huge time saver. We use it for Bentley, Microsoft, and Autodesk software without major issues.

Nachteile:

Upgrading the software can be a quite daunting task. The ability to integrate some of the more complex pieces of software Autodesk develops could use some attention.

ProejctWise - The Complete solution for IMDC (Information Management - Document Control)

Kommentare: Overall satisfied with ProjectWise. Most of the functionalities are available and some advance level features are also available which makes ProjectWise unique compare to other available solutions in market.

Vorteile:

Difference Serviceses and its use cases. Issue resolution service has saved countless man hours and reduced manual efforts by creating automatic CRS generate.

Nachteile:

Export is not possible in PW Web connections. Bulk user upload is not possible in PW Administrator/PW Explorer. There are certain limitations in PW Insights which is dimming the charm of reporting.

Decent project database software

Kommentare: I've been a regular PW user for over a decade and recently became an administrator during our SELECTseries to CONNECT upgrade. There were a lot of challenges, and still are, to clean up our datasource and to take advantage of the features in PW. I would describe the software as potentially powerful, but clunky and difficult to learn.

Vorteile:

All the documents in on location, workflow control, inherited properties and attributes, title block integration.

Nachteile:

Search is not intuitive, access control is challenging, lots of effort is needed to train and learn the features of the software, as well as management and knowledge sharing. The software has gotten slower with the CONNECT edition anecdotally, tends to crash at suboptimal times.

A well rounded collaborative tool

Kommentare: I have used ProjectWise at many companies for many projects, and it has always been a powerful and useful collaboration tool. It does require training for the initial learning curve so we do always account for that in our project schedules.

Vorteile:

I have used Projectwise for many projects with different teams - sometimes international teams around the world. My experience has always been decently pleasant. Projectwise has an advantage over its new competitor BIM360, because you can collaborate on MANY DIFFERENT FILES TYPES. Word docs, CAD drawings, Microstation drawings, spreadsheets, etc. This is where ProjectWise wins. It has an audit trail and you can customize the environment and document control for each project. You can also adjust permission settings as needed. The speed of working on drawings is efficient, since it makes a local copy and you're only affected by slow network issues when pushing your work to the server.

Nachteile:

It does have a steep initial learning curve e.g. understanding check in vs server update vs open/checkout etc. There should be explanations & definitions built in to the UI because improper use of some of the tools can be catastrophic.

Best project management system for large firms and agencies

Vorteile:

Huge storage capabilities for all types of files, various levels of sharing and security that enable quick and efficient transfer and sharing of files at all stages of project development and design, easy compatibility with all Bentley civil engineering design programs. As a design engineer in a large bridge design division, I found our switch to ProjectWise to be smooth and easily managed. Projects were easy to find, even years later, and ProjectWise facilitated good sharing and cooperation between in-house personnel and the customers.

Nachteile:

It can be slow. Sometimes it goes down. There's a box that started auto-checking itself a few months ago that makes you open a read-only copy of things, and this resulted in my doing a bunch of analysis that didn't get saved, and a really awkward conversation with my group leader because said analysis was not there when we needed it to be. (Moral of story, read each dialog box carefully before clicking accept, even if you've been a ProjectWise user for a long time.)