City of Helsingor, Denmark, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program



    Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of
    Helsingor, in the north of the Danish island of Sealand, has joined
    Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program. The city will
    use its new MLS to enhance the services it provides to its more than
    60,000 citizens.

    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.

    Helsingor provides its citizens with a full range of services,
    including public works, electric power, district heating, water and
    wastewater treatment, public safety, and mapping - among many others.
    With the help of Bentley Geo Web Publisher, the city publishes all
    services-related data on the Internet and its intranet, providing city
    staff and the public with easy access to this information.

    As comprehensive as its service offerings are, the city is always
    looking for opportunities to enhance them. As Anja Jerow, technical
    designer for Helsingor, explained, "We are particularly interested in
    elevating the level of our GIS capabilities, offering the entire GIS
    staff access to Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of geospatial
    software. Acquiring this access the old-fashioned way, through the
    purchase of additional licenses, would be far too costly and would
    make pilot deployments of additional solutions prohibitively
    expensive."

    Jerow continued, "With our MLS, we can deploy any Bentley solution
    in the program at no additional charge and, therefore, experiment with
    new solutions while maintaining tight control of our budget. Better
    still, because our entire organization has access to the software, we
    can spread the program's cost evenly among our departments,
    simplifying budgeting.

    "More importantly, through our new MLS, the needs of our citizens
    are better met - a direct result of our ready access to a
    comprehensive selection of advanced software. At the same time, future
    service expansions or enhancements are easier to plan for since we are
    no longer hampered by the budget approval process typically needed to
    acquire new software for service upgrades."

    One of the additional Bentley solutions being considered for
    future deployment by Helsingor is ProjectWise, a scalable
    collaboration system for connecting people and information across the
    distributed enterprise. Said Jerow, "We will likely implement
    ProjectWise for use by the electric power department. ProjectWise
    would help streamline our documentation workflows and improve data
    exchanges among the Helsingor staff, our subcontractors, and
    third-party suppliers."

    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

    -- Electric and gas distribution networks

    -- Urban planning

    -- Cadastre management

    -- Public safety

    -- Municipal building design

    -- Mapping and 3D modeling

    Because program fees are 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 Helsingor

    Helsingor is located in the north of the Danish island of Sealand,
    in the middle of an area known as "The North's Riviera." No matter
    where you are in this city of more than 60,000, beaches and forests
    are close by.

    In the spring of 2004, Helsingor City Council adopted a local plan
    that paved the way for one of the most significant urban regeneration
    projects in the city's recent history. It will include the development
    of The Culture Yard, a new area for cultural activities and
    institutions to be established on the city's former shipyard site,
    which closed in 1983 after more than a century of operation. The
    Culture Yard is an important element of the City Council's vision of
    culture, creativity, and knowledge being the engine that drives
    development in Helsingor and the surrounding region.

    It will be developed in several stages and eventually become a
    separate district in the city, interlinking the city, the harbor, and
    Kronborg Castle. The first stage includes Helsingor Central Library,
    two multipurpose halls, exhibition galleries, conference facilities, a
    cafe, a shipyard museum, open plan offices, and facilities for
    associations and an IT, media, and development workshop. For more
    information, visit www.visithelsingor.dk.

    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
    revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400
    colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software
    to the Engineering News-Record Top 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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