Styli Camateros, Bentley vice president, Civil and Geospatial Products, said, “Bentley’s geospatial product portfolio underscores our commitment to advance GIS for infrastructure and provides engineers and GIS professionals with an entirely new way to work. The products are designed to make spatial data and GIS functionality available within engineering workflows to all users, when they need it and without file transformations or conversions. This results in end-to-end support for spatial data within online and offline workflows and, ultimately, increased organizational efficiency. All of the products in this broad and growing portfolio are open, extensible, and customizable, and they make spatial data available to support the infrastructure asset’s entire lifecycle.”
Bentley Map and Bentley Cadastre
Bentley Map is next-generation software for managing the world’s infrastructure in a geospatial context. It forms the basis of industry-specific products, including Bentley Cadastre, Bentley Electric, Bentley Water, and Bentley Gas. Bentley Map combines powerful GIS functionality with all of the editing precision and graphics capabilities of MicroStation to support extensive spatial analysis, thematic mapping, presentation, and plot production.
“Bentley Map is an extremely powerful, flexible, and easily configurable editing environment that has increased our productivity demonstrably,” said Mario Cipriano, chief information officer, IRIDE Energia.
Using the software’s Geospatial Administrator, end-users can configure business and topological rules without programming. In addition, Bentley Map can edit Oracle® Spatial and other GIS data types, including ESRI SHP files. Its highly flexible output includes 2D and 3D PDFs.
Bentley Cadastre provides powerful support for any type of parcel management workflow for local government, central government, cadastres, and other organizations that manage land or property. Bentley Cadastre ensures that the day-to-day maintenance of cadastral fabric is achieved with the highest possible accuracy by providing the editing environment to underpin a range of possible GIS and geospatial solutions.
Bentley Geospatial Server
Bentley Geospatial Server extends ProjectWise capabilities, adding powerful enterprise access to Oracle® Spatial and other enterprise GIS data stores. Organizations already taking advantage of its capabilities include Greater Toronto Airports Authority; multi-utility IRIDE Energia; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; state-owned mining, power, and industrial processing conglomerate MIBRAG; and the government of Ville de Montréal.
Bentley Geospatial Server also provides unique enterprise access to heterogeneous engineering documentation, whether spatial or nonspatial in nature, through a spatially enabled interface. Bentley Geospatial Server is a federated environment that unites information independently of its source, allowing users to leverage and unify information stored in both spatial databases and as unstructured documents. In addition, it enables live Oracle® Spatial editing with long transactions through Bentley Map, intelligent, distributed printing and plotting, and support for enterprise collaboration and configurable workflows.
“The Technical Data Centre employs several services of the Bentley Geospatial Server that will enable controlled enterprise-wide access to our Oracle® Spatial data and allow us to manage extensive nonspatial engineering documentation in an efficient manner, including direct access through a map-based GUI,” said Mike Robertson, manager, Technical Data Center, Greater Toronto Airports Authority.
Additional Products in the Geospatial Portfolio
Bentley’s wider portfolio of geospatial products includes products for high productivity visualization, raster-to-vector document conversion; extending spatial data into the field to support offline access to enterprise data; and products for publishing spatial and nonspatial data over the Web to intranets, extranets, and public websites. In addition, Bentley provides products that support geospatial and engineering workflows in specific industries, including water and wastewater utilities, electric and gas utilities, and communications service providers.
For more information about Bentley’s GIS product portfolio, visit www.bentley.com/en-US/Products.
About BE Conference
BE Conference 2008 – BEst Practices for Sustaining Infrastructure is being held May 28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. At this two-and-half-day event, decision makers and senior practitioners from infrastructure organizations around the globe, including owner-operators and AEC firms, will share innovative best practices using Bentley solutions. Conference sessions address the needs of executives, managers, architects, engineers, designers, builders, and other infrastructure professionals and include user-led content and programs dedicated to 13 “solutions communities.” The highly focused agenda of BE Conference 2008 enables attendees to explore innovative ways to increase productivity, improve project quality, and reduce the costs and risks associated with sustaining infrastructure.
For more information about BE Conference, visit www.bentley.com/BEconference.
About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our world and our quality of life; the company’s mission is to improve the performance of their projects and of the assets they design, build, and operate. Bentley sustains the infrastructure professions by helping to leverage information technology, learning, best practices, and global collaboration – and by promoting careers devoted to this crucial work.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,800 colleagues, offices in more than 50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500 million, and since 1993, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley as the world’s #2 provider of geospatial software solutions.
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