Bentley Delivers New 3D City GIS Information Modeling Software to Enhance Design and Operation of Intelligent Cities

Leveraging Its Leadership in Information Modeling, Bentley Advances GIS for 3D Cities by Releasing V8i (SELECTseries 1) Versions of Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher

EXTON, Pennsylvania, February 18, 2010 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing
comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our
world, today announced breakthroughs in 3D geospatial information systems
(GIS) software to support the design and operation of intelligent cities.
Intelligent cities, and the intelligent infrastructure they incorporate, take
full advantage of information modeling best practices. As a result, they are
able to provide better performance with respect to safety, energy, lifecycle
costing, and operational efficiency. Bentley's intra-operable portfolio of
software features lifecycle support across all classes of intelligent
infrastructure, including land management, power generation and energy
delivery, water and wastewater networks, roads, bridges, rail, communications
networks, and buildings. The just-released V8i (SELECTseries 1) versions of
Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo
Web Publisher further extend this portfolio to include new 3D City GIS
capabilities.

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Commenting on Bentley's new software, Richard Zambuni, Bentley global
marketing director, said, "All around the world, city governments are looking
for ways to improve the sustainability of their intelligent city
infrastructure to deliver a better quality of life to their citizens.
Bentley's newly released 3D City GIS products enable them to adopt
information modeling best practices that enhance their ability to perform
urban planning, noise simulation, shadow analysis, natural disaster
mitigation, public relationship management, and 3D analysis and design.

"Moreover, through the deployment of Bentley's ProjectWise collaboration
services, multidisciplinary, distributed municipal project teams will be
better able to connect people with information, enabling streamlined,
collaborative workflows. In addition, they'll benefit from improved change
management to sustain the value of information throughout the infrastructure
lifecycle."

Bentley Map V8i is at the core of the Bentley 3D City GIS product
portfolio. Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1) now allows advanced visualization
of smart 3D models; creates thematic maps; captures smart 3D features of
buildings, roads, and other infrastructure; integrates 3D data from different
sources; performs smart 3D object editing and quality control on the 3D data
model; and creates realistic renderings and animations. Moreover, its spatial
database capabilities have been enhanced through the introduction of Oracle
Spatial 11g 3D object support, enabling new and unmatched enterprise
workflows.

The product's standard integration with Safe Software's FME Desktop
technology enables the use of multiple 3D formats such as CityGML and
introduces a number of new extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities to
the Bentley Map workflow. Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1) also offers an
extensive and well-documented API to allow rapid enhancement of the new
functionality.

Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1) in combination with Bentley Descartes
V8i (SELECTseries 1) offers raster digital elevation model support and the
editing of 3D raster images. By providing raster 3D editing capabilities,
Bentley Descartes can be used to improve building textures.

Andre Tanguay, technical lead, Department of Design, Architecture and the
Environment, Quebec City, commented, "In Quebec City, we have been using
Bentley products for many years to execute our 3D City projects because of
the benefits these products bring to both our city planning workflows and to
our citizens. In workflow terms, it makes processes such as the advanced
rendering of 3D City models or 3D design superimposition more efficient.
Moreover, outcomes can be shared easily with various stakeholders.
Nontechnical stakeholders like the richness and reality of 3D - it makes it
easier for them to reach decisions with confidence. We look forward to taking
advantage of the new 3D capabilities of Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 1)."

Bentley Geospatial Server V8i (SELECTseries 1) plays a major role in the
Bentley 3D City GIS product portfolio by managing 3D models, textures, and
workflows. It complements Bentley Map V8i's Oracle Spatial 11g 3D object
support by adding disconnected editing, long transactions, and support for
Oracle Database's time components. Bentley Geospatial Server V8i
(SELECTseries 1) provides a unique way to combine 3D GIS and 3D
engineering/Building Information Modeling information by leveraging Bentley
innovations such as i-models for semantically rich and secure file-based
information sharing. An i-model is a container for open infrastructure
information exchange featuring provenance (that is, knowledge of its origin
and evolution).

Bentley Geo Web Publisher V8i (SELECTseries 1) supports users with the
ability to quickly and easily create Web 2.0 3D GIS applications by
publishing 3D models to KML/Collada-compliant clients. The software publishes
3D City models in a highly-optimized multi-resolution data structure suitable
for web data streaming.

Bentley's 3D City GIS product portfolio is an integrated suite of
products allowing the creation of smart 3D City models and the management of
these models across the lifecycle. It also provides a rich set of tools to
use the 3D City model in a variety of activities. GIS professionals, urban
planners, designers, project managers, engineers, and citizens alike will
benefit from going beyond traditional 2D GIS technology and using Bentley's
newest 3D City GIS products.

For additional information about Bentley's 3D GIS capabilities please
visit:

www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Map

www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Descartes

www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Geospatial+Server

www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+Geo+Web+Publisher

www.bentley.com/en-US/Solutions/Cadastre+and+Land+Development/3D+City+GIS.htm

www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/Publications/White+Papers

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects,
engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more
than 2,700 colleagues and offices in more than 45 countries, achieved in 2008
the milestone of US$500 million in revenues, and, since 1995, has invested
more than US$1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

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    ron.kuhfeld@bentley.com

Ron Kuhfeld of Bentley Systems, Incorporated, +1-610-321-6493, ron.kuhfeld at bentley.com