eB Insight Services, the technology foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform, controls information throughout the lifecycle of change – ensuring the delivery of relevant, trusted information, in context – to infrastructure operations, where and when it is needed.
Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM) Ensures Information Trustworthiness
eB Insight is based on four fundamental principles that support and determine the success of an ALIM solution, as well as the key goal of achieving information trustworthiness:
Information must be identified, characterized, and related to all other relevant information. eB Insight provides flexible and powerful information modeling that makes it easy to define information types and the relationships between them, including documents, requirements, people, processes, policies, physical assets, and more. eB Insight ensures that organizations can deliver information that is accurate, complete, and in context. By integrating with key enterprise applications, eB Insight can provide visibility to the entire set of available information. The ability to continue to refine and expand the information model as needed is the basis for the successful adoption of eB Insight.
Information must be managed through change. Relating information is powerful, but useless if you cannot manage information relationships through change. Not only does eB Insight address this requirement as part of its core capabilities, but its robust change management can be extended by using the relationships themselves. Effective enterprise change management cannot happen without the ability to create relationships between relevant information. This is key to the ability to identify the impact or effects of change.
Information status must be clearly identified and accessible. eB Insight reports on the status of specific information assets (historic, under change, pending change, latest approved, superseded, or obsolete), and also the state and status of relationships between the information. This ability to have a complete view, and even record a snapshot of it at any point in time, is a significant benefit to everyone who uses the information.
Information history must be auditable. Regulations and compliance directives often require that information have an audit trail — who used the information, what was changed, and why it was changed. In addition, it is good practice to audit the use and access of information sources to report on how information is being used and the behavior of information usage. eB Insight provides readily available and configurable reports that can be used to prove compliance through its extensive audit reporting and change management capabilities.
eB Insight Services, the technology foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform, controls information throughout the lifecycle of change – ensuring the delivery of relevant, trusted information, in context – to infrastructure operations, where and when it is needed.
Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM) Ensures Information Trustworthiness
eB Insight is based on four fundamental principles that support and determine the success of an ALIM solution, as well as the key goal of achieving information trustworthiness:
- Information must be identified, characterized, and related to all other relevant information. eB Insight provides flexible and powerful information modeling that makes it easy to define information types and the relationships between them, including documents, requirements, people, processes, policies, physical assets, and more. eB Insight ensures that organizations can deliver information that is accurate, complete, and in context. By integrating with key enterprise applications, eB Insight can provide visibility to the entire set of available information. The ability to continue to refine and expand the information model as needed is the basis for the successful adoption of eB Insight.
- Information must be managed through change. Relating information is powerful, but useless if you cannot manage information relationships through change. Not only does eB Insight address this requirement as part of its core capabilities, but its robust change management can be extended by using the relationships themselves. Effective enterprise change management cannot happen without the ability to create relationships between relevant information. This is key to the ability to identify the impact or effects of change.
- Information status must be clearly identified and accessible. eB Insight reports on the status of specific information assets (historic, under change, pending change, latest approved, superseded, or obsolete), and also the state and status of relationships between the information. This ability to have a complete view, and even record a snapshot of it at any point in time, is a significant benefit to everyone who uses the information.
- Information history must be auditable. Regulations and compliance directives often require that information have an audit trail — who used the information, what was changed, and why it was changed. In addition, it is good practice to audit the use and access of information sources to report on how information is being used and the behavior of information usage. eB Insight provides readily available and configurable reports that can be used to prove compliance through its extensive audit reporting and change management capabilities.
