Bentley Systems
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| Bentley Systems, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | Exton, Pennsylvania (1984) |
| Headquarters | Exton, Pennsylvania |
| Key people | Keith Bentley, Co-Founder Barry Bentley, Co-Founder Greg Bentley, CEO |
| Industry | CAD/CAM Software [1] |
| Products | See below. |
| Revenue | ▲ $450 million USD (2007) |
| Employees | 2600 |
| Website | bentley.com |
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. Their software solutions are used to design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, railways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks.
Bentley Systems is based in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA but has development, sales and other departments in 51 countries around the world. The company had revenues exceeding $450 million in 2007[1].
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[edit] Software
Bentley's principal software solution is MicroStation. MicroStation itself is a 2D/3D CAD platform from which Bentley software divisions and third-party software companies can build more specific solutions. For example, GeoGraphics is an extension from Bentley's Geospatial vertical which adds geographic and spatial capabilities to MicroStation. Bentley has a history of buying companies that fit into their four product verticals. For example, in July of 2004 Bentley purchased Haestad Methods to add water/wastewater modeling tools and simulation engines to their Geospatial software lineup.
Bentley also has a technical document / project control management solution called ProjectWise.
Bentley is a leading provider of Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for the Architecture, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical engineering disciplines. These BIM solutions are used on many of the largest, most complex and most innovative building projects around the world.
Bentley also provides GenerativeComponents a parametric modeling solution used primarily by architects and engineers in building design.
The current versions of Bentley products were published in summer 2006 and are branded XM Edition and numbered 8.9.
Bentley Geospatial in the Netherlands is mostly represented by a company formerly known as ISIS Benelux B.V.
[edit] See also
Bentley competes with Intergraph, Autodesk, ESRI and AVEVA in the AEC, GIS and CAD software markets.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Bentley Systems web site
- BE.org site - Projects and people who use Bentley software
- BE Communities by Bentley
- Bentley site for Building Information Modeling
- GenerativeComponents web site
- Bentley Structural solutions web site
- BIM Executive Summits sponsored by Bentley
- Advanced Parametric design conference site featuring Bentley software users
- Independent help and Forum Group for users of Bentley's GenerativeComponents software
