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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