Survey Shows Bentley Haestad #1 in Water Resources Modeling
 EXTON,
PA, Oct 4, 2007 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that its
Haestad Methods product line has been selected as the No. 1 water resources
modeling software in a national survey. The survey, commissioned by Bentley,
was conducted across the readership of CE News’ Civil Connection, a leading
civil engineering newsletter published by ZweigWhite. This follows on the
heels of the People’s Choice Award that Bentley’s WaterGEMS product in its
Haestad line won at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference
and Exposition and is being celebrated by Bentley through special
limited-time promotional offers.
The survey asked licensed civil engineering professionals employed by
leading consulting engineering, survey, and construction firms and key
public works departments, utilities, and municipalities about their software
preferences in seven categories of water resources modeling software.
Bentley’s Haestad solutions earned the No. 1 position – receiving up to more
than three times the top responses of the closest competing products – in
the following five categories:
- Water distribution
- Transient analysis
- Wastewater conveyance
- Stormwater networks
- General hydraulics
In the detention pond category Intelisolve’s product came in first, and
in the floodplain modeling category the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s (HEC’s)
product took the top position.
“It’s gratifying to once again have users confirm Bentley’s technology
and market leadership as well as the value of Haestad Methods solutions in
meeting their needs,” said Charley Ferrucci, vice president, Bentley water
asset solutions.
Added Ferrucci, “Though this survey confirms our first-place position
among civil engineers, utilities, and municipalities only in the United
States, we are also establishing this same leadership globally. Haestad
Methods solutions are broadly available around the world, including in some
of the fastest-growing economies such as China and India.”
In the survey, Bentley’s WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, HAMMER, SewerCAD, and
SewerGEMS products in its Haestad line received more than three times the
top responses of their closest competitors, among responses from water
utilities and municipalities in the water distribution, transient analysis,
and wastewater conveyance categories. Bentley’s StormCAD and CivilStorm
topped the stormzwater networks category, as did its CulvertMaster and
FlowMaster in the general hydraulics category. Bentley’s PondPack came in
second in the detention pond analysis category and its HEC-Pack came in
third in the floodplain modeling category.
The survey respondents also said that ease of use is their foremost
requirement for water resources modeling software, and that they found
Bentley’s Haestad Methods products to be the easiest to use. Said Ferrucci,
“It comes as no surprise that ease of use is a top priority. Hydraulic
modeling is complex by nature and can consume a great deal of an engineer’s
time. Our investment in usability improves productivity in all three
critical stages of the modeling process: model building and setup,
calibration, and results analysis. This means our users can spend more time
doing what they know best: engineering.”
Multiplatform interoperability across stand-alone, CAD, and GIS platforms
was second in the survey respondents’ list of must-have characteristics.
When asked about their use of CAD, GIS, and stand-alone platforms for water
resources modeling, 77 percent said they normally use at least two of these
platforms simultaneously.
In explaining the critical importance of multiplatform interoperability
to water resources projects, Thomas Walski, senior product manager for
Bentley water products, said, “All of these projects require collaboration
among people from different disciplines with preferences for different work
environments.
“With our level of multiplatform interoperability, models work together
no matter what platform they were created in; people work collaboratively,
each in his or her preferred environment; and organizations work more
efficiently by leveraging the skills of their specialists and their
investments in technology. Moreover, there are no translation errors to
contend with.”
Walski continued, “On the other hand, organizations that choose a less
interoperable platform are often forced to buy additional licenses of ArcGIS
or AutoCAD just to run the model, to train modeling team members that are
not familiar with the selected platform, and to deal with translation errors
that increase costs and hamper project schedules.”
To celebrate Haestad Methods solutions being selected as the No. 1 water
resources modeling software, Bentley is offering, for a limited time, a 20
percent license-fee discount on all of the “No. 1 products” in its Haestad
line. To learn more about this special promotion, visit
www.bentley.com/CelebratingNumber1.
To view the complete survey results, visit
www.cenews.com/bentleysystems.
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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.
For more information visit
www.bentley.com.
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