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City of Franklin, Tennessee, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program


    Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of
    Franklin, Tennessee, has joined Bentley's Municipal License
    Subscription (MLS) program.

    Bentley's MLS offers municipalities all the software they need to
    design and manage all their infrastructure for a fixed annual fee
    based on population. The breakthrough program enables them to improve
    productivity and reduce administrative costs by outfitting their
    entire mapping and engineering organizations with fully integrated
    software for GIS and engineering workflows. This leads to improved
    services and more efficient government.

    Franklin, a fast-growing city in Tennessee just south of
    Nashville, serves a population of 48,000. The city uses Bentley's
    WaterGEMS water modeling product in its engineering and water
    departments and is expanding its use of WaterGEMS through Bentley's
    MLS. In addition, in the near future, Franklin will deploy
    MicroStation, StormCAD, and Bentley Fiber - with other Bentley
    software to follow.

    Said Mike Proctor, IT manager for Franklin, "A key benefit of our
    new MLS is the ability to provide improved services to our citizens.
    Take, for example, water and wastewater services, which are always a
    challenge in cities experiencing rapid population growth. Our expanded
    use of WaterGEMS will enhance our ability to continually remodel our
    water network to account for the city's many new subdivisions and,
    thus, maintain the required capacities.

    "In terms of our internal organization, the biggest benefits of
    the MLS will result from our ability to share data more effectively
    across departments and to quickly and easily access a wide array of
    software to support our infrastructure projects. For starters, our use
    of MicroStation will enable us to more effectively collaborate with
    the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which also relies on
    MicroStation for many of its projects. And our adoption of Bentley
    Fiber will allow us to better manage the city's 60 miles of fiber
    optic cabling, currently being managed using paper documentation."

    Bentley's MLS program provides municipalities with unlimited
    access to a comprehensive portfolio of integrated GIS and engineering
    software for all of their infrastructure, including:

    -- Public works - roads, bridges, water, sewer, and storm

    -- Land development

    -- E-government

    -- Light rail design

    -- Community broadband

    -- Water and wastewater treatment plant design

    -- Urban planning

    -- Cadastre management

    -- Public safety

    -- Municipal building design

    -- Mapping and 3D modeling

    Because the program's fee is fixed, Bentley's MLS guarantees
    predictable software costs and budgeting. In addition, it removes the
    administrative burden of complex software licenses, shortens
    procurement cycles, speeds project starts, and ultimately leads to
    more efficient government.

    For more information about Bentley's MLS program initiative and
    software or to contact a Bentley representative, visit
    www.bentley.com/MLS.

    About Franklin, Tennessee

    Franklin, Tennessee, is a special community. With few exceptions,
    residents believe that the city offers a high quality of life, and
    they rate this aspect as the most important factor affecting their
    decision to live in the community. Franklin has gained national
    recognition for its downtown revitalization and for devising impact
    fee strategies for new development.

    Franklin's population doubled in the 1990s and is currently about
    48,000. Its population is expected to double again over the next 20
    years. In addition to residential growth, Franklin has attracted a
    significant number of commercial and industrial employers, including
    many headquarters or regional offices. Numerous factors have fueled
    Franklin's growth. The most compelling appear to be the charm and
    historic small-town character offered by Franklin as one of America's
    quintessential small towns. For more information, go to
    www.franklin-gov.com.

    About Bentley

    Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
    of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio
    for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
    architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
    2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2000 colleagues around the
    world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the
    Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators
    and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software
    solutions in a recent Daratech research study.

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    online, go to www.bentley.com/annualreport.

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