Bentley Wins FIATECH CETI Award

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has won a
FIATECH Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI)
Award in the Lifecycle Data Management & Information Integration
category. The award was accepted on behalf of Bentley by Dr. Manoj
Dharwadkar, Bentley director, technology management, and Rahul Patil,
Bentley software engineer, during FIATECH´s annual conference in New
Orleans. It honors Bentley for its collaboration on FIATECH´s
"Accelerating the Deployment of the ISO 15926" (ADI) project, and
recognizes Bentley´s extensive work this past year on the ISO 15926
international standard for process plant information, including:

-- Development of Adaptive Information Models based on ISO 15926
Reference Data Library.

-- Development of ISO 15926 adapters for Bentley products.

-- Development of Bentley Class Editor for managing the Adaptive
Information Models and data mappings and the implementation of
ISO 15926 Part 7 WIP facade (Web Services) within it. This
technology provides a user-friendly view of ISO 15926
information models to the domain experts who want to
contribute to the standard, as well as to the implementers who
want to write adapters to the neutral standard. Bentley has
offered complimentary copies of the Bentley Class Editor to
FIATECH and POSC Caesar members.

-- Collaboration with leading contractors on ISO 15926
implementation issues.

A direct result of this work was Bentley´s introduction at
daratechPLANT2008 of OpenPlant, the first range of software products
for the creation and management of plant infrastructure inherently
based on the ISO 15926 standard. Bentley´s OpenPlant products enable
collaboration by solving the problems inherent in a distributed
enterprise that spans disparate systems. The OpenPlant hallmark is a
seamless federation for sharing and reusing consistent and accurate
data among distributed teams and work packages throughout the plant
lifecycle. Bentley´s first ISO 15926-compliant offering was its
ProjectWise Lifecycle Server. At daratechPLANT2008, Bentley introduced
OpenPlant PowerPID, the only commercial P&ID solution to be based on a
completely open data model.

Commenting on Bentley´s award, Dr. Richard H.F. Jackson, director
of FIATECH, said, "Clearly, Bentley is steadfast in its commitment to
data interoperability using open industry standards and continues to
be a leader in providing the vision for and fostering the widespread
adoption of ISO 15926. Bentley is implementing ISO 15926 at the core
of its existing plant offerings and earlier this year said that all
future Bentley plant applications will be ISO 15926-based. This will
allow interoperability among Bentley´s software solutions and
third-party ISO 15926-based solutions in a consistent way."

"Bentley is honored by this recognition and looks forward to
continuing its work with FIATECH," said Rob Whitesell, vice president,
Bentley Plant, Building, and Structural development. "Without
question, FIATECH, in collaboration with POSC Caesar Association, has
made great strides in accelerating standardization activities around
ISO 15926. Bentley is actively engaged in these important efforts
through, for example, the contributions of Manoj, Rahul, and other
Bentley colleagues in support of the FIATECH ADI and POSC Caesar
projects. At the same time, Bentley is aggressively implementing
emerging interoperability standards in our comprehensive portfolio of
solutions and products."

Whitesell continued, "As CEO Greg Bentley announced at
daratechPLANT2008, Bentley has become the first plant creation
software vendor to deliver truly open solutions, including our
adoption of ISO 15926 data models as the basis for the next version of
all of our plant applications. By basing our OpenPlant products on ISO
15926, we are enabling project teams and plant owner-operators to
reduce downtime, increase plant safety, and deliver greater
flexibility and productivity to stimulate innovative engineering and
operations for sustaining infrastructure."

About ADI

More than 30 FIATECH owners, contractors, equipment suppliers, and
software providers are working together in the jointly funded ADI
project, along with the POSC Caesar Association and DNV, to create a
WIP ISO 15926 online reference data library. This library includes
lifecycle information models as well as software interface tools for
process industry lifecycle information integration.

About OpenPlant´s ProjectWise Lifecycle Server

ProjectWise Lifecycle Server supports Bentley´s standards-based
engineering data warehouse, addressing engineering automation and
other asset information management needs for the full plant lifecycle.
Built on ISO 15926, ProjectWise Lifecycle Server accordingly offers
unprecedented interoperability - providing the ability to share data
across Bentley and competitive plant applications, and with enterprise
IT environments. For more information about ProjectWise Lifecycle
Server, visit www.bentley.com/lifecycleserver.

About OpenPlant PowerPID

Bentley´s OpenPlant PowerPID is the only commercial software for
process and instrumentation diagrams to be based on a completely open
data model. Because the native data model schema for OpenPlant
PowerPID is ISO 15926, any data that is mapped to the ISO 15926 schema
can natively interoperate with OpenPlant PowerPID. This means that any
plant schematics created with OpenPlant PowerPID can be shared without
the need for complex application programming interfaces. The data is
stored and maintained in a neutral, nonproprietary format that can be
accessed by any application that is mapped to the ISO 15926 schema.
For more information about OpenPlant PowerPID, visit
www.bentley.com/PowerPID.

About FIATECH

FIATECH is an industry consortium that provides global leadership
in identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration, and
deployment of fully integrated and automated technologies to deliver
the highest business value throughout the lifecycle of all types of
capital projects. For more information about FIATECH, visit
www.fiatech.org.

About POSC Caesar Association

POSC Caesar is a global, nonprofit organization that promotes the
development of open specifications to be used as standards for
enabling the interoperability of data, software, and related matters.
For more information about POSC Caesar, visit www.posccaesar.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
revenues now surpassing USD 400 million annually, and more than 2,400
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 Daratech research study.

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