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COVID-19 pandemic . “ When the crisis hit , many companies who were using other , server-based products in offices became stuck and couldn ’ t access those resources . For our customers , the users of our distributed cloud products , the transition was seamless and we can actually see that in the telemetry . It shows us that our work-sharing products had no disruption in usage during the country-based shutdowns resulting from the pandemic . In fact , our collaboration tools actually saw an 8-13 % increase in usage , year on year , from last year .”

“ A single BIM model , made of the structural elements of the building , could be many , many gigabytes of data . The question is : how do remote workers seamlessly access files of that size to make edits , updates , and run analysis ”

— Jeff Richardson , Chief Data Officer , Bentley Systems
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