City of Lakeland, FL Gets Bentley Municipal Licensing
 LOS
ANGELES (BE Conference 2007), May 3, 2007 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated
today announced that the City of Lakeland, Florida, has joined Bentley’s
Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program. The city will use its new MLS
to make its engineers more productive and expand their access to advanced
software. This will enable Lakeland to deliver enhanced services to its
citizens at the lowest reasonable cost while maintaining its reputation as a
low-tax city.
Bentley’s MLS offers municipalities all the software they need to design
and manage all their infrastructure for a fixed annual fee based on
population. The breakthrough program enables them to improve productivity
and reduce administrative costs by outfitting their entire mapping and
engineering organizations with fully integrated software for GIS and
engineering workflows. This leads to improved services and more efficient
government.
Lakeland provides its 91,623 citizens with a complete array of services,
including electric power, water, wastewater and stormwater management
(within the city’s 72.2-square-mile area), land development, road
maintenance, and emergency services, to cite just a few. It also generates
and distributes electric power from its city-owned-and-operated power
utility to 253,405 residents spread over a 246-square-mile area.
Said Tracy Kirkpatrick, Lakeland’s assistant director, Department of
Information Technology, “With our MLS, for close to the same price as our
former subscription, we can access more than 10 times the number of Bentley
products and solutions. Given the breadth of services that Lakeland delivers
to its citizens, this is clearly an opportunity to which we had to say yes.”
He continued, “There are a number of products we are anxious to test and
possibly deploy – for example, Bentley Expert Designer to improve the
productivity of our engineers when designing and operating our electric
distribution network. However, at the top of our list is Bentley’s
ProjectWise collaboration system. Its implementation will help us support
our site development workflows and eventually make Lakeland an excellent
example of e-government in action.”
Lakeland believes that site development automation will bring substantial
savings through data sharing among city departments and external contractors
and developers. In the medium term, the city foresees all of the paper in
the site development process being replaced by digital documents posted to
ProjectWise – available to users through secure log-ins and privileges.
Currently, every time a contractor applies for a permit on a project, it has
to submit 10 paper copies of all the specifications and drawings.
Benefits Lakeland is already enjoying from its new MLS include the
ability to provide project teams with an increased number of licenses for
the Bentley products it is currently deploying. Among these are
MicroStation, Digital InterPlot, InRoads, PlantSpace, and SewerGEMS.
As Kirkpatrick explained, “With our MLS, our engineers don’t have to wait
for access to, say, a MicroStation license. Previously, we sometimes had to
ask field engineers to bring in their laptops after just 48 hours in order
to free up licenses for more pressing assignments. Now, our field engineers
can keep their laptops and MicroStation licenses out in the field for months
at a time. The same holds true for the other Bentley products we regularly
deploy.”
In addition, the city is saving both time and money as a result of
dramatic reductions in software deployment times. As Kirkpatrick said, “With
our old subscription it would take us a year to go through our planning and
budgeting process, followed by a lengthy procurement process once the budget
had been approved. Today, we just download the software we need and go from
there. Without question, the MLS is making us a more nimble and responsive
organization.”
Bentley’s MLS program provides municipalities with unlimited access to a
comprehensive portfolio of integrated GIS and engineering software for all
of their infrastructure, including:
- Public works – roads, bridges, water, sewer, and storm
- Land development
- E-government
- Light rail design
- Community broadband
- Electric and gas network design
- Water and wastewater treatment plant design
- Urban planning
- Cadastre management
- Public safety
- Municipal building design
- Mapping and 3D modeling
Because the program’s fees are fixed, Bentley’s MLS guarantees
predictable software costs and budgeting. In addition, it removes the
administrative burden of complex software licenses, shortens procurement
cycles, speeds project starts, and ultimately leads to more efficient
government.
For more information about Bentley’s MLS program initiative and software
or to contact a Bentley representative, visit
www.bentley.com/MLS.
About Lakeland, Florida
Centrally located between Tampa and Orlando, the City of Lakeland,
Florida, offers its 91,623 residents and many visitors a wide variety of
sports, entertainment, cultural, and educational opportunities. Lakeland is
the heart of Polk County and it is Lakeland’s charm that creates a beautiful
blend of a small town feel with the convenience and amenities of much larger
cities.
Lakeland has received the distinction of being on Money Magazine’s “Best
Place to Live in America” list. In addition, Lakeland is home to Publix
Supermarkets and Florida Southern College, which hosts the largest one-site
collection of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture, and has been the winter
host home to the Detroit Tigers for over 65 years. For more information,
visit the official City of Lakeland site at
www.lakelandgov.net.
About BE Conference
The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee
satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley user
organizations offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes,
and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves,
better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world’s
infrastructure.
For more information on BE Conference 2007, taking place this week at the
Los Angeles Convention Center in California, go to
www.be.org.
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 architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2400 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 recent Daratech research
study.
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