5 good reasons to use openBIM

There are 100 good reasons to use openBIM versus a closed system of BIM tools, but we will give you the 5 most important ones here. And they all will increase the value of your work.

You control access to your data

When you use open BIM, your data is always stored on open international standards. This means that there is a publicly available written instruction on how to access your data. This essentially means that you have complete control of how to access your data at any given point in time.

Contrast this with the opposite approach where you keep your data in a format that only one commercial entity, like a software company, knows how to read. If you want to access your data, and make them readable and usable for you, you need that commercial entity to give you access. That one entity completely controls the access to your data. Given that data is becoming more and more valuable, that is a big risk to take.

You get quicker access to more innovative solutions

When trusting your data flow and data management to one vendor for all your needs, you are at the mercy of that vendor’s innovation speed. If that vendor is in a comfortable position commercially, it is only natural that the speed of innovation from this vendor will be slower than the rest of the market.

In an openBIM environment, everyone you choose will be able to access your data. This means that there will be more than one vendor who can offer you innovative services, thus creating competition and increasing the speed of innovation. You can enjoy several innovative offerings on the market, and maximise the digital advantage for your own services.

You get better data security in your solutions

As in the above, since you can pick and choose more vendors to cover your needs, there will be more competition that will improve the quality of the solutions available. This, in turn, will cause the solutions to have better data security for your data.

Transparency improves your data flows

Open BIM environments are in their very nature more transparent than a closed, proprietary environment. This improved transparency allows you as a user more insight into the way your data is really used. Where you store the data is up to you. How you share your data is very clear. Who will really have access to your data is more transparent? In a closed system, your visibility is almost zero.

Open international standards is more democratic

Opening up the data flow, improves diversity and accessibility. Diversity improves security and accessibility improves your choices in solutions and tools. Improved choices is a more democratic scene. Instead of having just one vendor to choose from, and trust, you can choose from a large ecosystem of different and similar solutions. Everyone can work in their own favorite tool, regardless of vendor and version. Which improves your bottom line and the value of your work.

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