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Collect, report, manage, visualize, and analyze your data

Already using OpenGround? OpenGround applications allow you to collect, report, manage, visualize, analyze, and access your geotechnical data when and where you need it.

OpenGround has a collection of role-focused application bundles to customize your access that work directly with OpenGround, Bentley’s collaboration platform for geotechnical data management. Virtuosity offers these OpenGround applications, so you can collect, report, manage, visualize, analyze, and access your geotechnical data.

Note: OpenGround Cloud services must be purchased separately along with any or all OpenGround applications. Kindly, contact a product sales specialist. Learn more.

OpenGround Collaborator

Provide your teams across the supply chain with controlled access to a single source of truth to significantly increase collaboration and efficiency. Improve access and reliability to avoid drilling the same location twice by accessing valuable knowledge from past projects. Your team can make more informed bids and lower risks with reusable archived information.

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OpenGround Collector

You can connect the field to the office with Collector. Your drilling crews collects the data once and the data is immediately made available to your teams when they need it.

OpenGround Manager

Take advantage of fully connected workflows and standardizations. Between your team and offices, you can manage and control sharing the most current data in standardized formats to fully optimize resources to save.

OpenGround Integrator

Leverage technology to reduce costs by integrating your GIS, analysis, or visualization tools.

“[OpenGround gives us] the ability to determine and cross-reference the organization’s geotechnical parameters and correlations with those available from literature sources. Tender design is made more efficient and [we] can consider a wider range of site properties leading to reductions in geotechnical risk.”

Technical Capabilities

Tablet Data Collection Data Entry & Collection Access Management Integrated GIS Geotechnical Data Report Production Customize Templates Web Portal OpenGround Launcher Platform Development

Tablet Data Collection

Central configuration using admin portal
Customizable data entry profiles
Seamless data synchronization with cloud services
Full log preview
Sample label printing
Photograph support
Windows or Android

Data Entry

Designed for fast and easy data entry
Enter data in primary or secondary units
Integrated validation and spell checking
Customizable soil description builder
Copy record options and default values
Support for calculated fields and default values
Customizable grid-based workflows
Imports for CSV, AGS3.1/4, gINT, GEODASY, pLog

Data Collection

Data synchronization with the cloud in one step
Optimize for touch
Intuitive steps, forms, and grids
Full log preview
Sample label printing
Integrated GPS support
Photograph support
Data validation with configurable settings
Support for offline data capture
Configuration options with data entry profiles, steps, forms and grids, defaults values, calculated fields, expressions, and conditional logic

Data Management

Extendable core data model
Data mining (filter / order / group)
Zone projects with location groups
Saved searches
Pick list and abbreviations management
Advanced calculated fields
Integrated document management

Access Management

Configurable role-based user permissions
Flexible team-based groups and roles
Single sign on support

Integrated GIS

Microsoft Bing mapping
Support for DXF, SHP import
Dot Plot overlays and Site Plan generation
Link to online datasets using WMS
Position locations for drilling teams

Geotechnical Data

In Excel:

Automated production of summary tables, measure sheets, and reports
Filter and group data by multiple parameters
Filter by location groups
User-defined sorting criteria
Automatic production of graphs and summary plots
Dashboards by location and geology
Built-in designer for design of new templates
Support for Excel’s formatting functions
Use of Excel calculations on worksheets
Support for pivot tables and charts

In CAD:

Automatic display of 2D and 3D boreholes
Define multiple geotechnical hatches
Control over 3D boreholes and log strip styles
Create geology strata surfaces
Include/exclude locations in strata model
Strata color and material control
Create geotechnical profile views with strips
Modify alignments and update profile views
Automatically hatch the strata areas
Display additional geotechnical data
Point groups based on geotechnical data
Create surfaces from any geotechnical data

Report Production

Fast graphical log preview and PDF printing
Logs, sections, site plans, summary sheets, and charts
Customize templates using Template Studio

Customize Templates

Borehole logs, header sheets, site plans, and sections
Combined logs showing multiple drilling
Microsoft Office style interface
30+ pre-made drag-and-drop object types
100 pre-made expressions
Save at configuration pack, project, or local level
Text grouping and collision

Web Portal

Integrated GIS mapping
Intuitive grid and tab-based interface
View and download project documents
Review logs
Secure multistage data import process

OpenGround Launcher

Install and update new apps with a single click
Securely launch multiple apps from one login or SSO
Receive notifications for app updates
Keep informed about service updates
Manage app roll out across your organization
No IT access required for app updates

Platform Development

Extensive (REST) web API
Produce output in any application
Link data into any application
Import data from any application
Free Bentley Developer Network membership for internal app development
Application development support

Tablet Data Collection

Central configuration using admin portal
Customizable data entry profiles
Seamless data synchronization with cloud services
Full log preview
Sample label printing
Photograph support
Windows or Android

Data Entry & Collection

Data Entry

Designed for fast and easy data entry
Enter data in primary or secondary units
Integrated validation and spell checking
Customizable soil description builder
Copy record options and default values
Support for calculated fields and default values
Customizable grid-based workflows
Imports for CSV, AGS3.1/4, gINT, GEODASY, pLog

Data Collection

Data synchronization with the cloud in one step
Optimize for touch
Intuitive steps, forms, and grids
Full log preview
Sample label printing
Integrated GPS support
Photograph support
Data validation with configurable settings
Support for offline data capture
Configuration options with data entry profiles, steps, forms and grids, defaults values, calculated fields, expressions, and conditional logic

Data Management

Extendable core data model
Data mining (filter / order / group)
Zone projects with location groups
Saved searches
Pick list and abbreviations management
Advanced calculated fields
Integrated document management

Access Management

Configurable role-based user permissions
Flexible team-based groups and roles
Single sign on support

Integrated GIS

Microsoft Bing mapping
Support for DXF, SHP import
Dot Plot overlays and Site Plan generation
Link to online datasets using WMS
Position locations for drilling teams

Geotechnical Data

In Excel:

Automated production of summary tables, measure sheets, and reports
Filter and group data by multiple parameters
Filter by location groups
User-defined sorting criteria
Automatic production of graphs and summary plots
Dashboards by location and geology
Built-in designer for design of new templates
Support for Excel’s formatting functions
Use of Excel calculations on worksheets
Support for pivot tables and charts

In CAD:

Automatic display of 2D and 3D boreholes
Define multiple geotechnical hatches
Control over 3D boreholes and log strip styles
Create geology strata surfaces
Include/exclude locations in strata model
Strata color and material control
Create geotechnical profile views with strips
Modify alignments and update profile views
Automatically hatch the strata areas
Display additional geotechnical data
Point groups based on geotechnical data
Create surfaces from any geotechnical data

Report Production

Fast graphical log preview and PDF printing
Logs, sections, site plans, summary sheets, and charts
Customize templates using Template Studio

Customize Templates

Borehole logs, header sheets, site plans, and sections
Combined logs showing multiple drilling
Microsoft Office style interface
30+ pre-made drag-and-drop object types
100 pre-made expressions
Save at configuration pack, project, or local level
Text grouping and collision

Web Portal

Integrated GIS mapping
Intuitive grid and tab-based interface
View and download project documents
Review logs
Secure multistage data import process

OpenGround Launcher

Install and update new apps with a single click
Securely launch multiple apps from one login or SSO
Receive notifications for app updates
Keep informed about service updates
Manage app roll out across your organization
No IT access required for app updates

Platform Development

Extensive (REST) web API
Produce output in any application
Link data into any application
Import data from any application
Free Bentley Developer Network membership for internal app development
Application development support

Featured Training

Browse a variety of upcoming training and previously recorded courses taught by our in-house, industry experts.

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Webinars

Explore our Geotechnical webinars for best practices and engage with industry experts from Virtuosity and Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company.

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Blogs

Read our Infrastructure Insights blog to find tips and tricks and Geotechnical user success stories from around the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is OpenGround?

OpenGround is a cloud-based geotechnical information management software application that allows you to easily access, collect, organize, centralize, and standardize geotechnical data.

What is the price of OpenGround Application Bundles? How much do OpenGround Application Bundles cost?

A practitioner license of OpenGround Collaborator costs $129 USD, OpenGround Collector costs $215 USD, OpenGround Integrator costs $538 USD, and OpenGround Manager costs $645 USD. Prices vary per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Virtuosity, Bentley’s eCommerce store. When you purchase through Virtuosity, you get a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get both the software AND the training, expert services, and custom mentoring you need to get started quickly.

What else do you need to run OpenGround?

You need two components to run OpenGround.

An OpenGround Instance.
Each user requires a Virtuoso Subscription to run the desktop Apps connected to an OpenGround Instance.

Please contact us before you order Virtuosity Subcription if you require an OpenGround Instance.

A Virtuoso Subscription will allow you to work with projects you have been given access to in any OpenGround Instance. Virtuoso Subscription work only when being connected to an OpenGround Instance.

Note: OpenGround Cloud services must be purchased separately along with any or all OpenGround applications. Kindly, contact a product sales specialist. Learn more.

Where are OpenGround Instances currently hosted?

OpenGround Instances are currently hosted in the UK, USA and Australia.

What apps are included in each subscription?

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System Requirements

Minimum

Dual Core Intel or compatible
2 GHz processor
4 GB of RAM
5 GB of available hard drive space
600 x 900 resolution
Windows 8.1
Internet Connection

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