AECOM and Bentley Systems announced a strategic partnership Nov. 2 at Bentley’s “Year in Infrastructure” conference in London. The 100,000-employee engineer-constructor is a longtime user of Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration platform, and the formal partnership will help standardize the firm’s global project delivery use of it.
“AECOM is an inaugural user of our Bentley Systems’ new enterprise cloud services subscription program,” said CEO Greg Bentley. The program gives AECOM full access to all Bentley’s mobile apps and services. “It’s rather radical for us,” he added, “but we think it’s the most fair and equitable way to introduce cloud services.” Organizations will set their subscription level to an annual budget according to anticipated use, but only be charged for actual usage. Any balance rolls forward and never expires.