Bentley Acquires promis•e Products for Electrical Systems
 HOUSTON,
TX (daratechPLANT2008), Jan 28, 2008 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today
announced that it has acquired the global business of ECT International,
Inc., the leading provider of advanced computer-aided engineering design
tools for electrical control systems. The company’s flagship product line,
promis•e, comprises intelligent, easy-to-use software that generates
electrical system schematics and supporting documentation, reducing
electrical design time by more than 30 percent. The software, in combination
with MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, or AutoCAD, also makes the
electrical design process more accurate by virtue of more than 2 million
up-to-date parts in its uniquely comprehensive content repository. Among the
diversity of original equipment manufacturers, electrical systems
integrators, engineering/procurement/construction (EPC) firms, suppliers and
vendors of electrical system components, and facility owners designing with
promis•e are ABB, Procter & Gamble, Eaton, Solar Turbines, Duke Energy, Long
Island Rail Road, and Siemens. Partner companies providing database content
include Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Panduit, and Hoffman, among
others. The acquisition of promis•e complements and further extends
Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio of software for the design and operation
of electrical systems for process plants, factories, power generation,
electric utilities, rail and transit, and more.
With promis•e, Bentley will be better able to respond to a growing need
among building, plant, civil, and geospatial infrastructure professionals
for more comprehensive solutions incorporating electrical wiring,
diagramming, and drawing production. In addition, promis•e adds to Bentley’s
contributions within a vendor category of rapidly growing significance for
infrastructure creation – industrial solution suppliers. These suppliers are
assuming more and more of the engineering on projects as they design,
configure, and fabricate modules of larger scope for assembly on site,
superseding traditional piecewise specification and construction. By doing
so, they help owner-operators and EPC firms overcome professional,
materials, and crafts resource shortages.
Commenting on this latest Bentley acquisition, Bhupinder Singh, senior
vice president, Bentley Software, said, “Automating the design of electrical
control systems results in important efficiencies, leading to increased
professional productivity. But especially, Bentley user organizations have
wanted automated electrical design to be fully integrated with other
disciplines and workflows across the infrastructure lifecycle. They know
that this advancement would multiply, many times over, their productivity
improvements.
“Bentley’s acquisition of promis•e will result in the solution they’ve
been looking for. It will enable Bentley to integrate promis•e’s
functionality and extensive content repository with our comprehensive
portfolio for infrastructure facility types and disciplines. So finally,
users will benefit from streamlined control system design workflows
intra-operating by way of an intelligent information model. This will
provide increased efficiencies and accuracies that cut design and
construction costs, shave time from delivery schedules, reduce operations
and maintenance costs, and make it easier to implement ongoing system
modifications – all of which enhance the creation of sustainable
infrastructure.”
Said Art Sawall, founder of ECT and now Bentley vice president, “The
entire ECT team is excited about becoming Bentley colleagues and being able
to offer our users the tremendous depth and reach of Bentley’s comprehensive
portfolio of software and services. Our two organizations share the common
vision that open data models are the key to achieving interoperability and
maximum value for users. That foundation sets the stage for significant
innovations that could not be accomplished separately.”
Added Rob Whitesell, vice president, Bentley Plant, Building, and
Structural development, “This acquisition is particularly auspicious for
plant owner and creators. Last year, Bentley unveiled solutions that
unprecedentedly span intra-operating from conceptual design through detailed
engineering to lifecycle data management. With this breakthrough, users
benefit from bidirectional workflows that allow them to iterate from
simulation to process and instrumentation diagrams, to economically
near-optimum instrumentation and pipe routing, to pipe stress analysis, all
interactively. Our acquisition of promis•e enables us to soon add to this
workflow electrical control system design – supporting drawing takeoffs from
the promis•e intelligent database. This will extend our commitment to
comprehensive intra-operations by providing automation for instrumentation
and electrical engineers that works with the other discipline applications
in our portfolio.”
Bentley, the leader in Daratech’s plant schematics market rankings and in
integrated, intra-operating FEED workflows, will showcase at
daratechPLANT2008 this week the latest promis•e configuration, with
MicroStation PowerDraft. In addition, it will demonstrate interoperability
between promis•e and Bentley’s plant applications through the open ISO 15926
data standard, and will discuss plans for integrating promis•e with
Bentley’s newly announced OpenPlant product range.
About promis•e
promis•e is an intelligent software application that generates electrical
system schematics from spreadsheets and supporting documentation such as
panel layouts, bills of material, wire lists, terminal plans, cable pull
lists, and interconnect diagrams. Combined with MicroStation, MicroStation
PowerDraft, or AutoCAD, or in a stand-alone environment, promis•e links
drawing files to SQL and Oracle databases to improve the productivity of
control system design and documentation workflows. It incorporates more than
2 million parts in its uniquely comprehensive and current content
repository.
promis•e fully supports both IEC/DIN and ANSI/IEEE/JIC page and symbol
formats for electrical drawings. Additional symbol libraries are available
for hydraulic, pneumatic and process control systems, as are parts databases
from leading component manufacturers. Dialogs and menus can be configured
for languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, and
Spanish.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans AEC and operations.
With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2,400
colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the
Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was
named the world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a
Daratech research study.
For more information, visit
www.bentley.com
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