“With the pace of

technology innovation
Bentley SELECT
today, Bentley SELECT Software at your Service, for Organizations of Any Size
helps ensure customers
receive perpetual value
from their perpetual Bentley’s SELECT subscriptions are designed for organizations of all sizes, providing flexible licensing options,
license assets.” product training, software upgrades, technical support, and unprecedented access to Bentley’s broad portfolio of
solutions for today’s architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operator organizations.
Amy Konary
VP Software Licensing Meeting the Challenge The Bentley SELECT Advantage
& Provisioning, IDC The infrastructure lifecycle presents many software Regardless of the size of your organization, the Bentley
challenges that subscriptions can mitigate. Among the SELECT subscription program is uniquely able to help you
most critical are: meet these challenges with SELECT Open Access and
SELECT Enterprise License Subscriptions.
• The need to constantly adapt to changing software
requirements, including matching the mix and Only Bentley SELECT empowers you to:
quantities of software tools to changing project
• Maximize software investments with flexible
needs, and ensuring they’re available to the teams
licensing options
that need them wherever they are located.
• Immediately access any software application
• Overcoming challenges that typically occur during the
you need
employment of highly technical software – problems
that can slow or halt production and waste precious • Stay fully supported with 24/7/365 support
time and resources.
• Stay up to date with software upgrades
• The costly challenge of keeping software up to date
SELECT subscriptions give your organization exceptional
to improve productivity and project quality.
competitive advantages by ensuring your users stay
Effectively meeting each of these challenges is crucial to productive, your licenses are effectively used, and by
your success in designing, documenting, delivering, and providing the flexibility to adapt to changing project
operating high-performing and cost-effective buildings, requirements while keeping capital expenditures
bridges, plants, and other infrastructure assets. under control.
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“Our firm is small, and tight budgets are a daily fact of life. Bentley’s new SELECT Open
Access subscription allows us to play in the big leagues, paying only for what we need
on a per-project basis . . . no longer do we have to do without because we can’t afford
to buy the software, much of which we may not need again until the next big project,
in one lump sum. Plus, we now have access to top level training and support resources.
Try that with ‘those other guys!’ – In a word ... Thanks!”
– Ken Crawford, PE, Senior Engineer, Technical Specialist, Cosmos Technologies Inc.

Right–sized Subscriptions SELECT Enterprise License

for Any Organization Subscription
With the lowest available rates for pay-per-use pricing, adjusted
Bentley subscriptions prioritize your success – ensuring that
once annually based on usage, Bentley’s Enterprise License
licensing never gets in the way of getting productive work done,
Subscription (ELS) offers the most economical license cost
regardless of the size of your organization, industry focus, or
through a minimum annual commitment. The Enterprise License
professional disciplines. Bentley SELECT helps eliminate growing Subscription offers the maximum value for large, multi-office
pains by streamlining procurement so users have access to the organizations who anticipate continued growth in their use of
required Bentley applications while the unique pay-per-use models Bentley’s software portfolio. In addition to organization-wide
reduce license costs and maximize return on investment. learning, Enterprise License Subscribers receive additional
support from Bentley learning coaches and service specialists to
help maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of users through
continuous learning. Subscribers have realized as much as a
30-percent reduction in overall software costs and as much as
a 50-percent increase in productivity through easy access to
Bentley’s entire portfolio and the learning needed to deliver the
highest quality projects. The Enterprise License Subscription
delivers significant operational and competitive advantages,
increasing productivity, further reducing annual software costs,
and delivering unrestricted access to Bentley’s comprehensive
software and learning portfolio – all for a single annual fee.

Unprecedented Software Value

Bentley SELECT offers a range of subscription features to help you
improve the return on your software investments. Among them
are software upgrades, the agility to meet the need for varying
quantities of licenses over time, license pooling to more cost-
SELECT Open Access effectively share licenses, and the versatility to meet the need for
Bentley SELECT Open Access provides subscribers with
new software titles across Bentley’s entire portfolio of applications
portfolio-wide access so you can employ the best and most
for architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators.
appropriate mix of Bentley applications for any discipline and
every project. With SELECT Open Access, organizations of any size
will save time, enjoy added flexibility, and benefit from reduced
administration, with comprehensive usage reporting to manage
licenses and costs. SELECT Open Access eliminates the purchasing
barriers to the most effective software utilization so that all Bentley
applications are “instant-on” and at your service, so you don’t have
to anticipate needs in advance. Any usage of Bentley applications
in excess of license pools is conveniently and automatically
invoiced at the end of each calendar quarter. In addition, SELECT
Open Access provides on-demand and live training in the virtual
classroom for new users through Bentley LEARN.
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Always up to Date Get Expert Advice through Assisted Support

As a SELECT subscriber you can always keep software current and Get access to the help you need from the people who know the
can access the latest productivity-enhancing upgrades at software best, the Bentley Technical Support Group, by phone,
your convenience. email, or Internet chat. Bentley’s world-class team of product
experts with specialized product knowledge is committed to
Stay Current with Anytime Upgrades providing support, in more than 17 languages, when you need help.
Do your best work by upgrading to and employing the latest,
most advanced software. With SELECT, you can upgrade when
you are ready at no additional cost. Capitalizing on productivity
enhancements in the latest releases provides a competitive
edge, without the disruption of forced upgrades imposed by other
software vendors.

Any-version Access Ensures Flexibility

Employ the right version of Bentley software to accommodate
third-party applications and project requirements, as well as to
prevent delays related to implementation and training on new Find Help When It’s Needed with
software in the midst of peak project loads. SELECT ensures that Round-the-clock Service
you have access to all recent versions of Bentley applications. Receive help anytime with access to Bentley’s support engineers.
Bentley SELECT’s 24/7/365 support receives the highest ratings
Get Ahead with Early Access
in quality from our subscribers, as documented every year in the
As a Bentley SELECT subscriber you can provide input to Bentley’s
annual subscriber survey.
developers and prepare for early adoption with exclusive access
to software prior to commercial release. Through early access Maintain Technical Self-sufficiency
you have the opportunity to furnish feedback to Bentley and with Self-help Support
prepare for the implementation of new versions – enabling Your users are equipped to prevent and resolve problems for
a faster return on investment in Bentley software. themselves with immediate access to technical tools, forums to
connect with their peers, and on-demand product information,
including an extensive support library of documented issues and
solutions, as well as frequently asked questions.

Maximize Your Software Investment

Meet your changing software needs efficiently by fully leveraging
your existing investment in software and benefiting from detailed
license-usage insight, while also being able to ensure the right
people have access to Bentley applications whenever and
wherever they are needed.

Term Licensing
To help you avoid project disruptions, Bentley SELECT offers unique
term licensing options to provide cost-effective, immediate access
to Bentley’s software portfolio, eliminating time wasted waiting to
Fully Supported procure software when licenses are not immediately accessible.
With SELECT, your users prevent and resolve problems quickly Through the pay-per-use pricing model SELECT Open Access
– minimizing impact on workflows – by taking advantage of subscribers will receive Quarterly Term License invoices at the end
the many benefits of SELECTsupport. Bentley’s worldwide team of each calendar quarter for any excess usage during that quarter,
of product and industry specialists is available to help resolve while Enterprise License Subscriptions are billed annually for usage
technical issues and keep your teams continually productive. during the previous year.

“The Enterprise License Subscription supports our design teams that use a wide range of
Bentley software for railway design activities across all disciplines. This simplification of
licensing helps us focus on our core activities in the knowledge that our software licensing
requirements are being met.”
–Cross London Rail Links, Ltd., UK
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requirements and gives The SELECT Open Access subscription enables you to share
licenses across all sites within a given country, while the
us better latitude to try
SELECT Enterprise License Subscription allows global license
new products by simply pooling. This dramatically improves software return on
exchanging underused investment by allowing licenses to be shared and streamlining Portfolio Balancing enables subscribers to adjust their mix
of software titles annually by exchanging unused software
licenses for new ones. asset management and allocation of project work.
for new software titles of equal value.
It has reduced our need Maintain Perpetual Software Flexibility
to buy new software, with Portfolio Balancing being used across your organization, administrators can make
and we think it will This unique licensing innovation allows a once-a-year informed licensing decisions based on current and historical
exchange of unused or underutilized licenses for new organization-wide software usage.
give us better flexibility
software titles of equal value based on their current list
and save money. price, providing you with unmatched flexibility to adapt your Easily Manage Access Control with
It’s a smart idea.” software portfolio each year as your software needs change. Streamlined Software Administration
Your subscription administrators have the power to control
– K.W. Chan, Principal, Gain Detailed Software Usage Insight user permissions, limiting by whom, when, and where existing
K.M. Ng Associates through License Usage Reporting and updated software can be used and installed. This ensures
With a comprehensive range of tabular and graphical reports you can manage usage levels while providing access to the
Find out about Bentley at regarding what, when, where, and by whom licenses are right software, simply and quickly.
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