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City of Toronto, Canada, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program


    Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of
    Toronto, Canada, has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription
    (MLS) program. Toronto's new MLS agreement will increase its
    engineering capabilities and help it better serve the infrastructure
    needs of its 2.6 million 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.

    Commenting on the city's new MLS, Wally Kowalenko, Toronto's
    director, Survey and Mapping, said, "We can now equip our GIS and
    engineering teams with the very best in GIS and engineering solutions
    from Bentley irrespective of the list price of the software. We expect
    this to make us a more effective and efficient organization in the
    longer term.

    "Moreover, our MLS will also help us standardize our GIS and
    engineering platforms and this, too, will make us more efficient. We
    will have fewer types of file formats to manage, and training can be
    focused on a single, unified set of software solutions. In addition,
    software acquisition and procurement procedures will be streamlined."

    Nearly all of Toronto's departments, including technical services,
    transportation, police, fire, ambulance, and water, already deploy
    Bentley solutions. Two sister organizations, Toronto Hydro and Toronto
    Transit, use Bentley software for electric power distribution and bus
    and light rail services, respectively, while the city's GIS team uses
    Bentley's geospatial products to maintain core GIS data. The data
    includes cadastral information, parcel information, street center
    lines, addresses, topography, aerial photography, and the enterprise
    GIS databases used by other departments.

    Bentley software solutions currently employed by Toronto include
    MicroStation, Bentley I/RAS B, InRoads, InRoads Site, InRoads Storm
    and Sanitary, and InRail. However, this list will grow substantially
    as a result of the city's new MLS.

    Said Kowalenko, "We will immediately begin to deploy more of the
    InRoads software. We are also exploring the possibility of deploying
    ProjectWise in conjunction with our enterprise workflow system to help
    share data and manage our engineering project documentation. In the
    longer term, we expect to deploy many new Bentley software solutions."

    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

    -- Electric and gas network design

    -- Water and wastewater treatment plant design

    -- Urban planning

    -- Cadastre management

    -- Public safety

    -- Municipal building design

    -- Mapping and 3D modeling

    Because the program's 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.

    As Kowalenko continued, "We expect that the MLS program will be a
    prime agent in improving the services that we deliver to our citizens.
    Citizens don't see what is behind the delivery of a service, but they
    certainly know, and appreciate, when it is delivered in an optimal
    manner.

    "Behind improved service delivery are harmonized business
    processes, harmonized software platforms, standards-based development,
    integration with enterprise systems, better reporting, and better
    mobile solutions for field technicians. We are beginning to map out
    how additional software from Bentley will positively impact all of
    these elements of our local government operation and look forward to
    its deployment."

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

    About Toronto

    Toronto is Canada's largest city and sixth largest government, and
    home to a diverse population of about 2.6 million people. It is the
    economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative
    cities in North America. In the past three years Toronto has won more
    than 50 awards for quality and innovation in delivering public
    services. Toronto's government is dedicated to prosperity,
    opportunity, and liveability for all its residents. For more
    information, visit www.toronto.ca.

    About BE Conference

    The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee
    satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley
    user organizations offering professional training, technology updates,
    keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees
    better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways
    they can improve the world's infrastructure.

    For more information on BE Conference 2007, taking place this week
    at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, go to www.be.org.

    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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    online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport.

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