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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