ArcGIS CityEngine vs. Bentley ProjectWise

ArcGIS CityEngine

2 Reviews and Ratings

Bentley ProjectWise

17 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ArcGIS CityEngine	Score10 out of 10	N/A	CityEngine is 3D modeling software for creating huge, interactive and immersive urban environments, according to the vendor in less time than traditional modeling techniques. The cities created using CityEngine can be based on real-world GIS data or showcase a fictional city of the past, present, or future. CityEngine is part of the ArcGIS suite of products, from Esri, the geomapping software specialist company headquartered in Redlands, California.	$2,000 per year
ProjectWise	Score9.5 out of 10	N/A	Bentley Systems offers ProjectWise, a construction management software for keeping construction project personnel and engineers up-to-date with most recent progress information, with daily logs and punchlists, risk item lifecycle management through identification, creation, tracking and resolution, RFI management, and document storage with automated sharing.	N/A

Pricing

ArcGIS CityEngine

ProjectWise

ArcGIS CityEngine Term License Subscription: $2000
per year
ArcGIS CityEngine Single Use Perpetual License: $4000
one-time fee

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Pricing Offerings
ArcGIS CityEngine	ProjectWise
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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User Ratings
	ArcGIS CityEngine	ProjectWise
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.2 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	ArcGIS CityEngine	ProjectWise
Likelihood to Recommend	Esri No answers on this topic	Bentley Systems ProjectWise is good for really large projects with many team members. I would not recommend it for small projects or those with a small team of people working on them. It is best for technical people and those who plan to use it daily. There are better FTP options out there if you just want to use them for file sharing. Verified User Read full review
Pros	Esri No answers on this topic	Bentley Systems It works for collaboration The backend is customisable to do work that other document management systems just cannot do. Johnathon Page Senior Drafter - Structures Read full review
Cons	Esri No answers on this topic	Bentley Systems many users cannot be in the same file at the same time files are not automatically freed upon closure copying files to another ProjectWise folder is complicated. There is an option to copy, another to copy to, etc. Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Esri No answers on this topic	Bentley Systems Bentley ProjectWise from a user perspective just does not stack up to even something as simple as Dropbox. ProjectWise is powerful, it is capable, it has a ton of features. The best implementation I have seen from Projectwise is where the admins unlocked everything and let the users do as they please defeating everything it stood for and using it as a big Dropbox account, though even then the user interface couldn't be improved still causing significant workflow delays. I would reluctantly leave a good company if they implement ProjectWise, I respect that it's powerful for system admins but it sucks for users. This means 2-10% of what it is used for is well designed while the other 98-90% of its functions are just bogged down by a lack of development in its user interface and I say this as someone who has periodically used it over the last 10 years and seen no effective improvement in usability. Bentley ProjectWise was one of the first I believe to do this type of system, but as is common with being the first is you don't keep up with the times and bring a lot of baggage with you. Johnathon Page Senior Drafter - Structures Read full review
Return on Investment	Esri No answers on this topic	Bentley Systems It has saved us time in archiving and versioning documents It has saved us effort in backing up files and restoring them when mistakes are made It has had an overall positive impact on our bottom line by helping with file sharing and collaboration Verified User Read full review
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