Bentley Now Shipping ModelServer Discovery for Navigating Geoengineering Projects on the Web.

KEYSTONE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 1998--Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Exton, PA) is now shipping ModelServer Discovery(TM), which allows planners, engineers and managers of distributed engineered assets to navigate geoengineering projects from a simple Web browser. This new server software distributes feature and attribute data to any browser-based user and enables them to query projects that span multiple files and formats.

To date, geoengineering project navigation has required complex desktop applications, severely limiting information access. ModelServer Discovery offers immediate, interactive access to geoengineering data to all project participants in utility companies, transportation departments, and other asset owners and service providers.

PEPCO, an electric utility whose 1995 operating revenue totaled more than $1.8 billion, is already using ModelServer Discovery for operating areas that need to view assets before and while performing field work. Trouble crews and maintenance crews are now able to find asset information on manholes, transformers and power lines quickly and easily.

Peggy Bultman, operations research analyst at PEPCO, comments, "ModelServer Discovery is giving us an advantage by saving time and allowing easy data access. The immediate availability of up-to-date data through a thin client makes a difference to the whole enterprise, particularly our field crews." She adds, "It puts more information at the fingertips of those people who need it the most, which helps PEPCO satisfy our customer's needs."

"Users of ModelServer Discovery are finding that it brings geoengineering to the enterprise and provides a low cost of administration through server technology," states Dr. Jean-Baptiste Monnier, vice president of geoengineering products at Bentley. "As part of the Bentley Continuum, managers, planners and engineers across entire enterprises - and if need be the public - can interact with and perform queries on data with a browser with no need for heavy desktop applications."

The next version of ModelServer Discovery includes a Java-based viewer. The Java viewer will be customizable and allow users to have a higher level of interaction with the data. Users will be able to drill down in key maps and add thematic mapping, such as parcel assessment values. Users of ModelServer Discovery will receive these and other improvements at no further cost through the Bentley SELECT(SM) technology and service subscription program.

ModelServer Discovery is both an end-user product and a development platform that can be enhanced and customized with MDL(R), MicroStation(R) Basic, and/or Java. The product can be used with any MicroStation project using MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics(R) or Intergraph MGE from Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ:INGR) project data. Graphical information is currently published through all standard Internet formats including SVF, CGM and JPEG.

Availability and Pricing

ModelServer Discovery is now available. Server prices range from $9,950 (US) to $17,950 (US), depending on the number of CPU servers.

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a worldwide leader in enterprise engineering software for large-scale projects in building/plant engineering, geoengineering, and mechanical engineering. With an installed base of over a quarter million users and annual revenues over $150M, Bentley was listed as the second largest privately held company in the 1997 Softletter 100 and named to the 1998 Upside Hot 100.

The Bentley Continuum is the company's comprehensive engineering IT strategy comprising products, services, and strategic affiliations. MicroStation desktop and ModelServer(TM) Internet/intranet/extranet-based products form the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and facilities around the world. The Bentley SELECT technology and service subscription program reaches over 150,000 subscribers. Focused on developing markets, Bentley Strategic Affiliates provide project services and high-performance, interoperable engineering applications.

Bentley Strategic Affiliates include GEOPAK, providing civil engineering software and advanced traffic management systems for worldwide transportation projects; HMR, developing advanced imaging for engineering and geoengineering; Jacobus Technology, offering products and services for plant engineering and design; NetSpace Systems, providing solutions to utility and telecommunications companies managing distributed engineered assets and municipal geoengineering solutions; and WorkPlace System Solutions, providing asset-centric engineering information management.

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