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GEOSPATIAL Publisher provides a robust environment for publishing geospatial and AEC content over the Web in rapidly created map-based interfaces. For our comprehensive portfolio of intraoperating geospatial and civil applications, I would direct your readers to www.bentley.com to review our April 2007 Annual Report, as well as our Year in Infrastructure publication, which features hundreds of projects nominated for BE Awards of Excellence, including many deserving nominees and award winners in India. In short, we foresee great opportunity and advancement for Bentley and for all of us in the geospatial space over the next several years. I am particularly looking forward to visiting India early in 2008 to share and discuss the very interesting and gratifying progress we’re making together there in advancing GIS for infrastructure. This article was originally published in GIS Development, August 2007, and can be found on the publication’s Web site, www.gisdevelopment.net. Copyright 2007 GISdevelopment.net. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. knowledge and successful entrepreneurs to strengthen our management team and grow with Bentley. Our acquisitions are increasingly international, bringing us geographic diversiﬁcation and “last-mile” solutions coverage. Speciﬁcally in the geospatial arena, we have recently made key acquisitions to accelerate development. A good example is R&D contributions of Google, also. Google Earth™ and SketchUp can both add value in geospatial workﬂows, and we have been very proactive in technically enabling drag-and-drop capabilities to incorporate such content into and around engineered infrastructure asset models, and vice versa. We expect signiﬁcant joint endeavors and announcements with Google over time. Our acquisitions are increasingly international, bringing us geographic diversiﬁcation. Cook-Hurlbert, acquired at the end of 2005, for electric utilities. Cook-Hurlbert gave us the technology that you now ﬁnd in Bentley Expert Designer XM and the knowhow that we have leveraged into the powerful GIS capabilities of Bentley Electric XM. Then GEF-RIS, acquired in Germany in 2006, brought us powerful multi-utility GIS solutions, with new capabilities for district heating, for example. On the civil side, we just acquired TDV of Austria, so we now provide the most capable bridge design software in the world— being applied zealously, for instance, in South Korea and China. There will be continued acquisitions of applications across all of Bentley’s verticals. We have a good pipeline in process, and we have a great track record in assimilating and globalizing acquired products and teams within our ever-more-comprehensive portfolio. How are you associated with Google and Microsoft, and what is your experience working with them? How do you see the position of Bentley in the geospatial industry vis-à-vis its competitors? Microsoft is a strong partner of Bentley. We commonly have Microsoft representatives working with us at our headquarters campus here in Exton. Microsoft products are prerequisites for everything we do, including server-level ProjectWise, which takes advantage of Microsoft SharePoint. We and our users beneﬁt a great deal from Microsoft’s technology initiatives at the server level as well as the desktop level. We make sure our users beneﬁt from the We are not trying to compete across the broad spectrum of GIS applications. Rather, our solutions revolve around the intersection of infrastructure engineering and GIS technology. We want to present GIS capabilities seamlessly and appropriately across the entire lifecycle of infrastructure assets. This focus on advancing GIS for infrastructure corresponds to the priorities for a very large portion of the geospatial universe—in fact, independent market analyst Daratech’s most recent study of market shares ranked us second in geospatial software globally. We have been making strong advances in our geospatial technology development, and we are now seeing the fruits of the most recent round of development based on the MicroStation V8 XM platform. Bentley’s updated geospatial platform packaging will be introduced this fall with our Geospatial Extension superseding MicroStation GeoGraphics, and with Bentley Map offering new levels of performance for desktop GIS. At the server level, we offer the Bentley Geospatial Server, which extends ProjectWise for geospatial users. The Bentley Geospatial Server provides the essential federated environment for querying and accessing geospatial and engineering content, workﬂow capabilities to facilitate collaboration, and interoperability with enterprise systems. And Bentley Geo Web G E O S PAT I A L N E W S FROM BENTLEY Bentley’s Haestad Methods Solutions Selected No. 1 Water Resources Modeling Software in National Survey >>more Stadtwerke Mainz Selects Bentley for Multi-Utility GIS and Infrastructure Engineering Solutions >>more City of Magdeburg, Germany, Joins Bentley’s Municipal License Subscription Program >>more Bogota Water and Sewer Utility Selects Bentley SewerGEMS >>more 38 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 4, Issue 4 http://www.bentley.com/en-us/ http://www.gisdevelopment.net/ http://www.gisdevelopment.net/ http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+4/No+1+Water.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/Stadtwerke.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/Magdeburg.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/Bogota+Water.htm

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

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