Ending Support of Accela EDR and Adobe Acrobat on November 1, 2022

The ePermitting Program will be ending support of Accela Electronic Document Review (AEDR) and Adobe Acrobat on November 1, 2022.  This means we will no longer support or provide the AEDR client software or Adobe Acrobat licenses to jurisdictions.  We made the hard decision to end support of AEDR and Adobe Acrobat because of the complexity of Adobe licenses, the difficulty of staying up to date with a compatible version of Adobe Acrobat, and the addition of new electronic plan review alternatives.  If your agency uses AEDR with Adobe Acrobat for electronic plan review, please contact us right away, by submiting a helpdesk ticket to epermitshelp.BCD@dcbs.oregon.gov, so that we can help you implement one of the alternative electronic document review products we offer – see below.
 
BlueBeam

• Free licenses provided by the ePermitting Program.
• Does not directly integrate with Accela so the document review is performed outside of Accela.
• Allows plan reviewers to view each other’s’ comments and publish them together during concurrent plan reviews.
• Industry standard.
• Implementation is simple.
• Training - ePermitting Program provides in-house training and there are online training materials available.

 
DigEplan

• The jurisdiction is responsible for paying the annual licensing costs to use the software and the ePermitting Program will reimburse the jurisdiction for the implementation costs.
• Directly integrates with Accela and includes an additional workflow task for Review Consolidation, additional email communication to customers, and no need to save electronic plans outside of Accela.
• Requires an implementation project with TruePoint, an Accela partner.
• Implementation is more in depth but is standardized across all ePermitting jurisdictions.
• Training - provided by TruePoint.