At its Year in Infrastructure conference, Bentley Systems announced Bentley Infrastructure Cloud Connect, the new foundational layer of Bentley Infrastructure Cloud that provides a connected data environment and unified experience for infrastructure professionals interacting with project and asset data, improving collaboration across the infrastructure life cycle and value chain.

Infrastructure data lives everywhere—in models, PDFs, inspection forms, photos, IoT sensors, and more—and it’s rarely connected. Bentley aims to change that with its Infrastructure Cloud Connect, which enables  professionals to access and manage all project and asset data in one place—fully contextualized and connected—from design through construction to operations, says the company.

Connect enables users to explore a big-picture view of their entire portfolio in full geospatial context, dive deep into project and asset details, and collaborate, track progress, and identify issues—all in one environment. It leverages Bentley’s iTwin platform to ingest data from over 50 file formats and integrate with a variety of enterprise systems, unifying engineering, operational, enterprise, geospatial, and subsurface data into digital twins of existing or planned assets in their full built and natural environment.