City of Overbetuwe, Netherlands, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of
Overbetuwe, in The Netherlands, has joined Bentley's Municipal License
Subscription (MLS) program. The city will use its new MLS to help
improve its highways, bridges, railways, and other infrastructure and
deploy a more advanced geographical information system (GIS).

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.

Said Gerrit Jakobs, Overbetuwe's GIS coordinator, "We decided to
join Bentley's MLS program for several reasons. First of all,
Bentley's portfolio provides most of the products and solutions
required by our city's Information and Automation plan. As a result,
we will be able to implement our strategy of deploying advanced
technology with built-in efficiencies to increase the productivity of
our project teams.

"Second, because the program gives us unlimited access to all of
the software in the portfolio, it will help us handle new demands
being made on Overbetuwe's service organizations. These demands will
only increase as our population grows an anticipated 20 percent in the
next three to four years, from 42,500 to somewhere around 51,000."

Already, expanding residential and industrial centers are creating
a need for newly designed highways, bridges, and railways to eliminate
periodic congestion. These and other infrastructure projects will be
much easier and less expensive to implement now that the city can
deploy as many licenses as it needs for whatever applications it
requires without incurring additional costs.

Continued Jakobs, "Third, to ensure the quality of our projects
and also meet increasingly restrictive statutory obligations, we need
a software vendor that not only provides inherently reliable software
offering standardized workflows, but also is committed to evolving
those products over time. As a global provider of field-proven
engineering design and geospatial software for more than 20 years,
Bentley meets these requirements and is a partner that we can count on
to be around for the long term."

A number of Overbetuwe's departments have long used Bentley's
products in the design and management of the city's infrastructure
projects. For example:

-- The Public Works Department uses MicroStation extensively for
the city's water and wastewater system, roads and bridges,
street lights, and other public lighting systems.

-- The Environmental Development Department uses Bentley's
geospatial solutions in developing plans and making proposals
for new urban areas, industrial and recreational parks, and
other city developments.

-- The Department of Public Safety uses MicroStation to develop
routing plans for all public and industrial buildings to
facilitate the transport of police, fire, and rescue crews to
and from public and industrial buildings during natural
disasters and other emergencies.

-- The Population Affairs Department uses address and building
data provided by Bentley's geospatial solutions to complement
its census data.

-- The Facility Department supports all of the city's mapping and
GIS functionalities using MicroStation and Bentley's
geospatial 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, potable water, wastewater, and
storm water infrastructure

-- 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 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.

Said Jakobs, "Now that we can cost-effectively pilot software
solutions in Bentley's portfolio, we will be deploying a number of new
applications in the near future. Our first implementation will be to
advance our GIS capabilities so we can open up our back-office
geospatial information to our internal project teams as well as to the
public. We'll disseminate this information over intranets and the
Internet using Bentley Geo Web Publisher.

"In addition, we plan to deploy a solution specially developed for
municipalities in The Netherlands called RoPlan. This software is used
for land management and land development projects to ensure conformity
to Dutch standards for data sharing and cadastral records.

"And this fall, we will implement Bentley's ProjectWise
collaboration system, initially for geospatial document information.
Later on, we want to integrate ProjectWise with our own distributed
information system called Corsa. ProjectWise is the ideal solution for
this because it readily accommodates all types of file formats,
including vector-based files.

"To make all of these new deployments as transparent as possible
to our workflows, we also joined Bentley's Enterprise Training
Subscription (ETS) program from Bentley Institute. The ETS offers
unlimited training on Bentley software products for a fixed annual
fee, so our entire staff will be able to quickly become productive on
our new software."

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

About the City of Overbetuwe

Overbetuwe, a city of 42,500 in the province of Gelderland in the
eastern Netherlands, was formed on 1 January 2001 as a merger of three
municipalities: Elst, Heteren, and Valburg. It lies in the center of
an urbanized area and is bordered in the north by the river Rhine and
in the south by the Waal.

About BE Conference Europe

BE Conference Europe (www.be.org) is taking place this week at the
Hilton London Metropole in the United Kingdom. This once-a-year
learning opportunity is modeled after the highly successful BE
Conference held in the United States.

The BE Conference is an annual gathering of Bentley user
organizations who want to sharpen their skills and expand their
knowledge. Attendees better themselves, better their organizations,
and better the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure. Year
after year, the BE Conference scores a 99 percent satisfaction rating
among attendees.

For more information on the BE Conference, 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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