Germany's EVM Gets Bentley Enterprise License

BREMEN, Germany – (INTERGEO 2008), Sep 30, 2008 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Energieversorgung Mittelrhein (EVM), a multi-utility, has joined Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription (ELS) program. Bentley’s innovative ELS provides competitive advantage while reducing annual software costs by granting infrastructure professionals unrestricted access to a comprehensive portfolio of architectural, engineering, construction (AEC), operations, and geospatial software for a single annual fee. Built on a common platform, the portfolio includes almost 200 integrated and interoperable design, analysis, and collaboration software products that help increase the productivity of both local and widely distributed project teams.

“This outstanding program will help us deploy Bentley’s multi-utility GIS and engineering products as needed across our enterprise,” said Wolfgang Scheurer, leader of the technical services department at EVM. “We have long been users of the Bentley sisNET family of products, and as our business has grown, so have our requirements for a first-class multi-utility geographic information system. Bentley’s ELS allows us to take advantage of new technology and new products at the click of a mouse. We no longer need to go through onerous internal software procurement cycles, and we can quickly react to the changing business environment.”

Scheurer continued, “Today’s utility organizations are under intense pressure to deliver services at the lowest possible cost with minimum service interruption. Bentley’s ELS gives us fast, easy access to products such as Bentley sisNET and MicroStation that help us achieve these goals by supporting the entire utility infrastructure lifecycle, from planning, design, construction, and operations to the retirement of redundant equipment. We use Bentley sisNET to handle the network infrastructure from pipes, pumps and valves all the way to on-premise equipment like meters. Bentley sisNET also helps us report to the Bundesnetzagentur and remain compliant with the safety and other technical requirements to which all German utilities must adhere. We use MicroStation extensively to design and maintain our water treatment plants.”

The Bentley ELS gives EVM’s teams a quick, cost-effective way to provide technically creative alternatives and sustainable solutions for the multi-utility’s projects. As a strategic benefit, Bentley’s ELS helps organizations such as EVM become more agile. Project starts can happen faster, teams can reconfigure for new opportunities more quickly, and no-charge pilots allow new technology to be infused into projects more readily. In addition, ELS agreements can include partners, extending the agility and multiplying the benefits in global projects.

Other benefits of Bentley's ELS program include:

• Immediate portfolio access to the right tool at the right time from any location,
• The ability to easily scale licensing needs as an organization grows,
• Streamlined software administration, license management, and compliance,
• The elimination of capital expenditure for all new software licenses,
• Average annual license cost savings of 40 percent through a pay-per-use model,
• The provision for global license consolidation through licensing server technology.

In addition, the program’s global license pool enables distributed teams to balance software supply and demand across offices, saving money and maximizing worldwide license utilization.

About Energieversorgung Mittelrhein

EVM was founded 80 years ago and now supplies 90,000 homes (165,000 customers) with natural gas, 55,000 homes with potable water, and, in certain locations, it supplies customers with electricity and wastewater services. With a network that extends more than 2,700 miles and handles more than 700 million cubic meters of gas per year, EVM is the largest supplier of natural gas in the northern Rheinland-Pfalz area. The water network extends more than 1,500 miles and it handles 14 million cubic meters of water per year. In addition, there are five strategically located water and wastewater treatment plants in the network.

For additional information about EVM, visit www.evm.de. 

About Bentley Systems, Inc.

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.

For more information, visit www.bentley.com.

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