Client-Side Tangentially Integrated Productivity Apps:  MS Office, Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Others

Author:  Eric Vasbinder

Support Status:  Supported

Integration Method:  TANGENTIAL - MS Outlook emailing, Word Create and Send documents, BlueBeam use

DEPLOYMENT MODELS

Viewpoint One (VP1) / Trimble Construction One (TC1) - i.e. VRL Clouds

Hosted:  NO

Additional Charge:  NO

NOTE:  With VP1/VRL Cloud, are physically hosted on customer-controlled hardware (e.g. customer laptops, terminal servers, etc.)

Viewpoint Enterprise Cloud (VEC / RDP Published Apps)

Hosted:  YES

Additional Charge: YES - 1 third party application maintenance fee for Bluebeam, Acrobat Pro, etc. (N/A for Office and Acrobat Reader)

DESCRIPTION 

As per many other client-side productivity apps, these tools operate in the same environment as Vista and can tangentially integrate into Vista.  These tools do not, however, touch the Vista database itself.  In the older, legacy, RDP-based deployment methods of Viewpoint Vista cloud hosting (e.g. RDP VEC or Viewpoint for Cloud (VFC)), Viewpoint DOES host THESE client-side apps.   As such, the customer will need to coordinate with Viewpoint to host these apps with us.  There is a $49/month charge to host a client side app other than SSMS, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader, GSS, or any Viewpoint solution.

In the newer Viewpoint One (VP1) / Trimble Construction One (TC1) models, customers host these applications on their local hardware.  In these modern iterations of our cloud, Vista Remote Link (VRL) is used to experience Vista.  As such, there is no need to host the totality of the client-side ecosystem that works on an end user's local workstation in our AVD.  The customer may, of course, set up their own AVD instance in the same datacenter as Vista, creating a thin client model for user experience.

tl;dr:  Customers using Vista within one of Viewpoint's RDP-based clouds (i.e. VFC and RDP VEC) DO need to host client-side apps that relate to Vista with us.  There is a charge for hosting these apps, save for Office, Acrobat Reader, Chrome, SSMS, and SSRS Report Builder.  VP1/TC1 - VRL Cloud customers host these applications themselves.