Bentley Ships V8 XM Edition of Market-Leading ProjectWise

At this inaugural BE Conference in Europe, Bentley
Systems, Incorporated today released the newest version of its
market-leading ProjectWise - a system of collaboration servers that
enables distributed enterprises and related organizations to
successfully deliver infrastructure projects.
The ProjectWise V8 XM Edition provides powerful new tools
specifically for organizations running a portfolio of projects,
including:

-- A project framework offering capabilities to find and reuse
content across projects

-- Standards management tools that increase the quality and
consistency of work on all MicroStation- or AutoCAD-based
projects

-- Load balancing and clustering for scaling the solution to a
portfolio of projects and optimizing performance across a
distributed enterprise

Commenting on ProjectWise, Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president,
Bentley Software, said, "Nine of the top ten ENR Top 500 Design Firms
are already successfully delivering projects with ProjectWise. Last
month, we extended this power to the entire population of projects -
regardless of size - with ProjectWise StartPoint."
He continued, "ProjectWise V8 XM Edition now builds on this market
leadership. Organizations working across a portfolio of projects will
experience powerful benefits in faster start-up times, the ability to
reuse content, and enforced standards of work across the portfolio."

A summary of the new tools in the V8 XM Edition includes:

-- Project framework: Search tools make cross-project queries
simple, while templates and inherited properties speed the
process of creating new projects.

-- Standards management: The association of workspaces to project
folders, cache management of workspaces, and support of
AutoCAD profiles all help administrators maintain CAD
standards across multiple projects and multiple offices.

-- Scalability: Network load balancing ensures high performance
during periods of high demand and clustering provides
fail-over security for mission-critical projects; users can
also now quickly access very large images through streaming
raster services.

-- Usability/administration enhancements: Editable workflows and
environments increase the administration flexibility of
projects in progress, and centralized view management provides
a common view of project documents for all users across all
projects.

-- SharePoint integration: With ProjectWise support for WebParts
and SharePoint, users can access ProjectWise content from a
Web browser and SharePoint-based applications can be connected
to ProjectWise and all its content.

The complete system of ProjectWise collaboration servers includes:

-- ProjectWise Integration Server with user synchronization,
orchestration, automation, distribution, and indexing services

-- ProjectWise Caching Server

-- ProjectWise Lifecycle Server

-- ProjectWise Plot Server

-- ProjectWise Web Server

-- ProjectWise Publishing Server

-- ProjectWise StartPoint

ProjectWise V8 XM Edition is now available to all Bentley SELECT
subscribers.
For more information on ProjectWise V8 XM Edition, go to
www.bentley.com/ProjectWise.

About ProjectWise

ProjectWise is a system of collaboration servers that enables
distributed enterprises and related organizations to successfully
deliver infrastructure projects. Its core capabilities allow users to
manage, find, and share CAD and geospatial content.
ProjectWise StartPoint provides an entry-level collaboration tool,
while ProjectWise Integration Server provides federated content
management. ProjectWise also includes servers for caching data in
multiple locations, for managing and automating plotting and
publishing, and for connecting with enterprise systems.

About BE Conference Europe

The inaugural BE Conference Europe (www.be.org) is being held this
week in Prague, Czech Republic. This new once-a-year learning
opportunity for the European infrastructure community is modeled after
the highly successful BE Conference held in the United States.
The BE Conference is an annual gathering of Bentley software users
and their managers 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, 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
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.
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