STRATUS BIM Cloud. STRATUS BIM Cloud Product Overview

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1 Product Overview STRATUS BIM Cloud Deliver your BIM applications as a secure on demand service to your online users, anywhere, anytime, and to any supported computing device.

2 STRATUS BIM Cloud is a secure on-demand BIM application delivery system. BIM applications are installed and managed on the STRATUS server located in your existing server facility and securely delivered to your online users, anywhere, anytime, and to any supported computing device. Simplify your IT Management STRATUS enables your IT or CAD manager to centrally manage a single instance of each BIM application and delivery it as a high definition remote application experience to your online LAN and WAN users. Traditional BIM application deployments are costly and often involve time consuming processes to manage the installation, upgrading and patching of applications to many computing devices. BIM applications are becoming increasingly dependent upon high specification computing devices in order deliver the necessary computing performance to manipulate complex BIM models. STRATUS significantly reduces the cost of BIM application management, and improves your business agility through the rapid provisioning of BIM applications to your users. STRATUS increases the utilisation rate our your current BIM application license pools, and reduces the need to deploy costly high performance computing devices for your end users. STRATUS isolates each application to reduce application conflict and your applications have direct access to your BIM model data residing in your central file storage there is no longer any need to transfer your BIM model data to your geographically distributed BIM project team. Scalability and Agility STRATUS servers can be scaled to support any number of LAN and WAN based users. The centralised architecture of STRATUS accelerates secure access to your BIM applications and project data to any supported device. STRATUS can deliver new and upgraded BIM applications to your entire team within seconds. Anywhere, Anytime Access to Supported Devices STRATUS provides your users with instant and secure access to your BIM applications and model data to their computing device. Supported devices include a desktop or laptop Windows PC, Macintosh, thin clients, and mobile devices such as ipads and Android. High Definition Remote Applications STRATUS delivers a high performance and high definition remoting performance to your LAN and WAN network users, regardless of the capabilities of your users device.

3 Secure Access STRATUS is secure by design because of centralised application delivery. It keeps you BIM project data in your central file storage, while transmitting only screen updates, mouse clicks and keystrokes over the network. STRATUS allows your IT personnel to assign application and files access permission policies for specific applications and users groups, ensuring that your secure data remains secure. Simplified Application Management STRATUS eliminates the need to install and manage BIM applications on your distributed user computing devices. STRATUS enables your IT personnel to centrally install, patch, and securely distribute BIM applications. Application are installed once, patched once and can then be made available for your entire team to access in a matter of seconds.

4 Benefits and Challenges Benefits: BIM collaboration over distance: A high speed application experience regardless of distance. Computing device independence: Use any supported computing device. Session portability: Start a STRATUS session at work; finish it at home, jobsite or hotel. Travel reduction: Staff can remain in their local office rather than travel to HQ or remote sites. Costs: The marginal cost of adding a STRATUS server is NZ$8,000-NZ$10,000. Secure: Sessions are isolated from the computing device protecting them from malware. Ubiquitous access: All that is required is internet access. Scalable: More STRATUS servers = more STRATUS sessions. Challenges: Remote printing: Printing over long distances might impact session performance. Application isolation: STRATUS applications are virtualised. Interaction between the applications is isolated from the users computing device. Service level: A technical fault on a STRATUS server potentially affects all user sessions on that server. More than one STRATUS server is recommended for site resilience. Support: End user self troubleshooting is limited. Requires intervention of IT Support staff.

5 ROI Factors Quantitative Server Hardware + CALs = NZ$8,000-NZ$12,000 (depending upon user numbers and project use-case scenarios) STRATUS Consulting/Solution Engineering = NZ$250 per hour. STRATUS IP License Royalty NZ$250 per user (perpetual right to use) STRATUS Maintenance - NZ$50 per user per annum. Qualitative Enables true BIM project collaboration Run BIM Project more efficiently Reduce BIM Hardware Costs Reduce High-spec Computing Hardware Costs Simplify Site Office/Remote Setup Reduce VPN requirements Enables BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) including Android/iPads devices Disaster Recovery options Improved utilisation of BIM Application licenses Rapid BIM application deployment to end users

6 Case Study Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd This article describes STRATUS, a private cloud server technology for Revit that has been developed by Stephenson & Turner, a medium-sized, multi-disciplinary, Architectural and Building Services Engineering practice based in New Zealand, with offices in Auckland and Wellington. Authored by Des Pudney, the CIO of the firm, the article describes the background and rationale for the development of STRATUS and discusses additional details, including the technology s features and the benefits afforded by STRATUS to the firm. Refer: About STRATUS STRATUS BIM Cloud is a Private Cloud technology developed by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd. The STRATUS BIM Cloud solution is built upon proven technology platforms that have been tested and improved over 2 years of operational use by Stephenson & Turner. Stephenson & Turner NZ Ltd is now accepting registrations of interest from AEC companies that are looking to establish their own Private BIM Clouds. STRATUS is able to provide consulting advice and plan technology solutions to enable AEC companies to build and deploy their own STRATUS BIM Clouds. Please contact STRATUS for further information or to arrange a STRATUS demonstration. STRATUS.NET.NZ Level Fanshawe Street Auckland T E enquiry@ W Follow STRATUS on LinkedIn