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BE CONFERENCE IN REVIEW Buddy Cleveland WATCH THE VIDEO NOW AT WWW.BE.ORG “ From a business point of view, in terms of our research investments, the Applied Research group is intended to help us increase the visibility of our investments so that we can ensure that those investments are aligned not only with our own business objectives, but with your business objectives, and thus WATCH THE VIDEO NOW AT WWW.BE.ORG aligned, focused, and prioritized to support those objectives. But perhaps most importantly, we want to increase our focus and support for those initiatives that are important to you in the long term that are perhaps under-funded or possibly wouldn’t exist by just following our nose to the next product release. So our mission in the Applied Research group is to look beyond the next version of software, to identify the white space as it were, in the solutions we deliver to you, and determine where we can bring new technologies to bear in support of the vitally important mission we all share to improve and sustain the world’s infrastructure, which is the foundation of our global quality of life. Now, you might ask yourself, “How do we intend to conduct applied research at Bentley?” I know it’s certainly a question I have asked myself. And certainly, there are lots of ways we could go. We could isolate ourselves and do research for sake of research. But we included the word “applied” in the title for a reason—we are committed to making what we do relevant to you. Of course, we could go way off the deep end. A great movie, but perhaps not the best business plan. So we have chosen to execute on our mission much in the same way each of you changes the world. One project at a time. New Applied Research Group Will “Work the Future” I n his 2007 BE Conference opening remarks, Bentley’s Buddy Cleveland, senior vice president, Applied Research, noted that while Bentley has always invested in research, much of it was product-focused and, therefore, “subject to fairly short time horizons.” Bentley’s new Applied Research group, on the other hand, will work beyond the horizon. This new group will focus on applied research so its work is always relevant to the needs of Bentley users, and the research will be done in much the same way users change the world—“one project at a time.” Moreover, it will include partnering with universities such as Johns Hopkins, McGill, Polytechnic, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and Virginia Tech. The Applied Research group will work on three types of projects: s Software that implements new capabilities in existing areas or provides capabilities in totally new areas s The incorporation of new technology into existing Bentley products, such as dynamic pen and dynamic plot and their integration with ProjectWise to communicate, capture, and vectorize ink-markups, query the ProjectWise database for provenance, and automatically attach vector references to the originals, stored in ProjectWise, for reuse s The application of existing products to ” new areas—for example, prototyping a general framework for real-time assets and providing capabilities for managing and accessing those devices using ProjectWise. 26 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 4, Issue 3 http://stream.bentley.com/mediasite/viewer/?peid=c9407d16-d321-4930-ba05-ef474a6b59ec

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Contents Rising to the Challenge News BE Newsletter Highlights More ITS Sightings Racing Concrete Canoes Lights, Camera, Action! Making the Cut People’s Choice Awards 2007 Executive Keynotes Building Clear Vision of a Dream Concrete Results Reaching New Heights Building News From Bentley Golden KIWI Awards 2007 Civil A Coordination of National Highway Proportions Training Troops Beautifying Highways, One Sign at a Time Civil News From Bentley Geospatial Facility Facelift Planning for Uncertainty Geospatial News From Bentley MicroStation at the Heart of LiDAR Surveying Solutions Plant Making the Grade Data Deja Vu Data Clouds Provide Clear Visual of Underground Saving Precious-Metal Mining Time Plant News From Bentley Advertisers Index Special/Academic The Art of Visualization Training Is Key To Delivering State-of-the-Art Solutions Bridging the Information/Infrastructure Gap

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 3

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