Bentley rolls out GeoEngineering solution suite for municipalities; MicroStation GeoGraphics powers new products for land management and engineering services.SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1996--URISA '96-- 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) , Inc. (Exton, PA) today announced its new SpatialData(R) GIS solution suite for municipalities. The comprehensive, integrated suite improves the efficiency of local governments and agencies performing land management and engineering services. Specifically, the new offering includes products for managing spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. used in land planning, tax assessment, city utilities, environmental control, and emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' . Because SpatialData is based on MicroStation GeoGraphics(TM), it realizes the GeoEngineering promise of a unified system for planning and engineering. Previously, municipalities were forced to meet these needs with separate computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive (CAD) systems and geographic information systems (GIS). This new integrated solution suite combines with MicroStation GeoGraphics to improve municipal collaboration and reduce overhead. Jean-Baptiste Monnier, vice president of GeoEngineering at Bentley, comments, "Municipalities want powerful GeoEngineering systems to improve their efficiency. Moreover, they demand products that work together." Monnier continues, "SpatialData offers leading-edge products that allow the police, the road maintenance department, emergency medical personnel, city planners, and tax assessors to share a common system. And the total solution is provided by Bentley." The new municipal offering was developed by the SpatialData division of Alexander Engineering, Inc. (San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. , TX), which is a leader in end-user GIS solutions. Bentley and Alexander Engineering intend for SpatialData to become a Bentley Strategic Affiliate. Bentley began its Strategic Affiliate program in 1994. The program is designed to provide the world's best and most interoperable engineering applications to MicroStation(R) users. It involves intense technical and business collaboration with, as well as a corporate investment in, a select number of focused, luminary developers. SpatialData utilizes MicroStation GeoGraphics as its underlying platform. MicroStation GeoGraphics serves as a full-featured end-user tool and as a development platform for new GeoEngineering applications. The programmability of MicroStation GeoGraphics is provided by the MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. (TM) and MicroStation BASIC programming environments. The MDL environment provides API access to over 2500 functions, 350 specific to GeoEngineering. SpatialData also works with MicroStation Descartes(TM) for image management, MicroStation ReproGraphics Duplicating printed materials using various kinds of printing presses and high-speed copiers. (TM) for document conversion, MicroStation Field(R) for remote engineering, MicroStation TeamMate(TM) for document management, and Engineering Links(TM) for Web-enabled engineering. Like other Bentley products, SpatialData offers users their choice of platforms including DOS, Windows(TM), and Unix computers. SpatialData includes the following products: SpatialData PARCEL (cadastral/tax mapping), SpatialData ELECTRIC (electric utilities), SpatialData 911S (911 mapping and rural addressing), SpatialData SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. (tabular and graphic data query), and SpatialData VIEW CONTENTS (custom map viewing). It also contains libraries of landbase symbology sym·bol·o·gy n. 1. The study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism. 2. The use of symbols. symbology 1. the study and interpretation of symbols. Also called symbolism. . All products are sold and supported by Bentley. Comprehensive service and preferred licensing is available through the Bentley SELECT(SM) program. To receive more information on the SpatialData suite or Bentley, please contact the company at 1-800-BENTLEY, +1 610-458-5000 (US), +31 2356-85588 (Europe), +61 3-9699-8699 (Asia), via e-mail at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or through the World Wide Web at www.bentley.com. About SpatialData Since 1985, SpatialData has been a software development division of Alexander Engineering, Inc. a multi-discipline professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm specializing in large-scale electric power and communications design for the infrastructure and municipal markets. SpatialData has clients throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. including Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Virginia, ranging in GIS applications from 911 mapping/addressing, electric power, and parcel/assessment. More on Bentley Bentley Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in engineering software products and user services. The company now serves over 220,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, GeoEngineering, and mechanical engineering. Its MicroStation products are proven at over 70% of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation behind the engineering of well-known buildings, airports, hospitals, highways, machines, bridges and industrial plants throughout the world. With annual revenues of over $95 million in 1995, Bentley has risen to number three in 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 software segment and become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. -0- MicroStation and MicroStation Field are registered trademarks; Bentley, MicroStation GeoGraphics, MDL, MicroStation Descartes, MicroStation ReproGraphics, MicroStation TeamMate, and Engineering Links are trademarks; and Bentley SELECT is a service mark of Bentley Systems, Inc. SpatialData is a registered trademark of Alexander Engineering, Inc. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . 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