Bentley Acquires Jacobus and Strengthens Commitment to Plant Engineering and Design Industry; Sales of PlantSpace Software Show Impressive Growth in 1997.GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 1998--Jacobus Technology, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, today announced that is has been fully acquired by Bentley in a move that further strengthens the company's standing in the plant automation market. The acquisition comes following record sales and impressive growth of over 200 percent in the past year. "Jacobus has shown remarkable performance in 1997, both in delivery of leading-edge products and in penetration of the plant automation market," says Greg Bentley Gregory "Greg" Bentley (born 9 April 1987) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Recruited from Rosebud/Dandenong U18 in Victoria, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006. , president of Bentley. "Our full equity investment in Jacobus will provide the company the resources necessary to continue this momentum -- which shows every sign of strong upward growth." 1997 marked the achievement of many goals for Jacobus, from the unveiling of Internet-based global engineering tools to the delivery of a complete system for 3D plant modeling, PlantSpace(R) Design Series. The PlantSpace system is the first 3D plant design system to support the needs of owner/operators, addressing full life-cycle requirements. Other milestones for the company included the release of PlantSpace P&ID, for intelligent process and instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. diagramming di·a·gram n. 1. A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole. 2. , and the release of PlantSpace Schedule Simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. (TM), for construction simulation. In less than 12 months, major plant EPC (1) (Entertainment PC) See HTPC. (2) (Electronic Product Code) A standard code for RFID tags administered by EPCglobal Inc. (www.epcglobalinc.org). (engineering/procurement/construction) firms and owner/operators have begun to not only adopt but also to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on Jacobus' PlantSpace system. "The real difference that Jacobus has to offer is the ability of our plant automation technologies to provide bottom-line business value," says A. B. Cleveland, president of Jacobus. "For perhaps the first time in our industry, we've truly opened the doors between the different engineering and design disciplines and provided a basis for life-cycle creation of plant data." Jacobus and Bentley share a unique vision, providing global project continuity with data models and focused Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technologies that can be leveraged across the plant enterprise throughout the plant life cycle. Jacobus' Plant Continuum Continuum (pl. -tinua or -tinuums) can refer to:
Jacobus has extensive collective experience in the plant industry -- executives and senior management at the company average over 16 years' experience developing, implementing, and supporting applications for plant engineering and design. Jacobus is the first company to complete an object-oriented system for plant engineering and design and the only company to provide an open system that allows users to incorporate and use plant data from competing plant systems for a variety of purposes. Jacobus will continue independent operations of the company's technology development and activities. In addition, Jacobus will oversee new sales and marketing structures that will achieve greater penetration of the plant industry by Jacobus and Bentley. For more information on the Plant Continuum, contact Jacobus today at 800/724-8741 or 301/926-0802 and request the white paper, Plant Continuum: Solutions for the Global Dimensions of the Plant Industry. About Jacobus, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate Jacobus Technology, Inc., provides software products and services to the AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission and plant operations communities, with concentration on the process and power industries. Maker of the PlantSpace line of object-oriented software based on JSpace(TM) architecture, Jacobus is regarded as the premier life-cycle solutions provider by plant owners/operators and engineering/procurement/construction firms worldwide. The company provides applications for computer-aided plant design and engineering, 3D real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. design review, project management, information management, and global engineering on the Internet and corporate intranets/extranets. Jacobus is a Bentley Strategic Affiliate. Jacobus Technology can be reached - By telephone at 800/724-8741 or 301/926-0802 - By FAX at 301/926-2313 - By email at info@jacobus.com - On the World Wide Web at http://www.jacobus.com About Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. Its products are proven at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. engineering applications to Bentley users. Bentley's Strategic Affiliate program involves an intense technical and business collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. with, as well as corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. Bentley Strategic Affiliates include GEOPAK Corporation; HMR HMR Hazardous Materials Regulations HMR Human Resources HMR Home Meal Replacement HMR Hamrun (postal locality, Malta) HMR Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal, Canada) , Inc.; Jacobus Technology, Inc.; NetSpace Systems, Inc.; and WorkPlace System Solutions, Inc. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at http://www.bentley.com . PlantSpace is a registered trademark; and JSpace and Schedule Simulator are trademarks of Jacobus Technology, Inc. Bentley and MicroStation are registered trademarks of Bentley Systems, Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cissell Consulting Jackie Cissell, 205/536-2822 jackie.cissell@jacobus.com |
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