Bentley Provides Company, Industry, Product Updates at Conference

Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley (left) and SVP Bhupinder Singh present company’s progress and plans for leveraging information modeling at  Be Inspired conference

The morning conference keynotes offered insights on innovations driving the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of software for infrastructure design, construction, and operations. Included were highlights of the V8i (SELECTseries 3) release of Bentley’s industry-leading project team collaboration platform, ProjectWise, the newly announced AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations information modeling (see press release) and Navigator (see press release). SELECTseries 3 is due for release by the end of 2010.

“Our commitment to leveraging information modeling across the infrastructure lifecycle empowers architects, engineers, and constructors to deliver integrated projects to owners,” said Greg Bentley. “And information modeling enables owners to operate intelligent infrastructure assets, which are safer, cleaner, and more efficient, for superior returns on investment.”

He emphasized that returns to owners and their constituents during infrastructure asset lifecycles are the ultimate benchmark for infrastructure professionals. He then described Bentley Systems’ plans to further extend its well-received approach to information modeling and dynamic collaboration in design and construction projects, towards dynamic handover – fully exploiting owners’ investments in information modeling for improved asset performance.

In the course of his keynote, Greg Bentley reported on:

• resilience in the company’s business during 2010 sufficient to achieve sequential and year-over-year organic growth, an expected return to record GAAP revenue run rate, and continued market-share gains;

• notable and diverse new opportunities for Bentley across the infrastructure lifecycle, including:

  • Among engineering applications, the company’s newly released OpenPlant Modeler V8i offering, the first to fulfill iRING international standards requirements, is garnering a great deal of market interest – and evaluation downloads – from users of UNIX-legacy competitors.

  • In construction, information modeling is being embraced at an unprecedented pace, with leading firms, especially for design-build, increasingly adopting Bentley’s Navigator V8i, and then ProjectWise V8i, for dynamic collaboration.

  • Among infrastructure owners, major municipalities are expressing strong interest in Bentley’s distinctively comprehensive 3D City solution, with record attendance at the company’s ongoing 3D City eSeminars, and with this subject attracting the highest registration of any roundtable at Be Inspired. Characteristically, Bentley’s 3D City solution goes beyond location and visualization, to support and simulate infrastructure performance.

• the inaugural release of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the largest public- and private-sector owners, in 46 countries, with infrastructure value representing cumulative net investment of over $13 trillion – available at www.bentley.com/500;

• the growing breadth of Bentley Passport Subscriptions, to enable individual infrastructure practitioners to affordably advance to an information-modeling level of practice by combining annual named-user licenses for multiple pertinent Bentley applications with Bentley LEARN subscriptions and applicable catalog content; the recent availability of the Civil Engineer for Wastewater Collection Passport Subscription brings the number of professional roles supported to 23;

• Bentley’s entry into the market for geotechnical engineering tools, by way of the forthcoming Civil Engineer for Geotechnical Analysis Passport Subscription, uniquely comprising the full spectrum of 18 established software modules developed in Europe by FINE Software for geotechnical requirements (from settlement and stability analyses to sheeting and foundation design), and the Civil Engineering for Advanced Geotechnical Analysis Passport Subscription, which adds specialized modules for finite-element modeling, ground loss, and tunneling. Bentley subscribers who have previewed the FINE Software modules, including their localization for American requirements, are enthusiastic about their comprehensive scope and superior quality by comparison to their existing assorted tools from fragmented suppliers. In conjunction with Bentley’s market-leading gINT geotechnical data management products, the new offerings mean Bentley Systems can now enable the under-served geotechnical engineering profession to finally take advantage of both technical and commercial software integration;

• the continuous expansion of Bentley’s online software services, from:

  • ProjectWise ONLINE, and

  • Exor Managed Services, to

  • the company’s public-private partnership for New Jersey DOT’s oversize/overweight vehicle permitting, to

  • Be Communities networking,

  • the Bentley Institute’s live training via virtual classrooms through Bentley’s LEARN Server, and

  • the Be Careers Network’s new STUDENTserver, to

  • the upcoming launch of a new website for Bentley iWare – software available from Bentley at no cost to promote interoperability and information reuse; examples to date include Bentley View, Structural Synchronizer V8i, Structural Dashboard V8i, i-model plug-ins for Revit, and, coming soon, a new i-model Previewer for Microsoft Outlook.

• Bentley’s investment to become the largest shareholder in BLUERIDGE Analytics, whose breakthrough SITEOPS site design optimization technology is delivered through cloud computing. A research project has been initiated to incorporate Bentley’s industry-leading hydrology and hydraulic modeling within the SITEOPS service, for yet more sophisticated drainage optimization.

Singh next provided an update on the growing adoption of i-models within the infrastructure community. He reported that i-models are already being used in hundreds of projects, enabling highly interactive bidirectional (dynamic) collaboration among distributed, multidisciplinary project teams. “Using i-models enables feedback to flow in both directions so that any project participant can add value during reviews, for truly integrated projects,” said Singh. “Through dynamic collaboration, firms and teams can achieve maximum virtualization of talent.”

For additional information about dynamic collaboration, Bentley Navigator V8i, ProjectWise V8i, and i-models, visit www.Bentley.com/DynamicCollaboration. For additional information about AssetWise, visit www.bentley.com/assetwise. For additional information about the other products in Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio, visit www.bentley.com. For additional information about the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, visit www.bentley.com/500. 

About Be Inspired: Thought Leadership in Infrastructure

The world’s leading infrastructure professionals have gathered this week at
Be Inspired, Bentley’s premier thought leadership and networking event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. They will share the best practices behind the successful realization of their current projects and explore new ways to respond to the challenges driving today’s business. Also in attendance are more than 60 journalists from around the world.

This intimate, invitation-only event features presentations by the Be Inspired Awards finalists, as well as executive roundtables focusing on critical issues in business, technology, and practice facing infrastructure professionals around the world. It culminates with an awards ceremony recognizing outstanding and innovative project achievements in infrastructure design, construction, and operations selected from 55 finalists in 21 countries by an independent panel of judges. In total, 320 nominations from 249 organizations in 45 countries were submitted in this year’s awards program. The winners of this year’s Be Inspired Awards will be announced this evening during a special ceremony.

This annual event provides a unique forum for senior-level executives to learn about the innovations driving the development and operations of the world’s top infrastructure projects. It also enables them to engage industry leaders in interactive discussions on topics of utmost importance to the business of sustaining infrastructure. For additional information about the Be Inspired: Thought Leadership in Infrastructure event, visit www.bentley.com/BeInspired. 

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has nearly 3,000 colleagues in more than 45 countries, $500 million in annual revenues, and, since 1999, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

For additional information about Bentley, visit www.bentley.com. To view Bentley’s May 2010 Annual Report, visit www.bentley.com/annualreport. To subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts, visit www.bentley.com/rss/news. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, visit www.bentley.com/yearininfrastructure. For information about Be Communities, a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit http://communities.bentley.com.

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