Bonneville Power Administration Chooses Bentley Solutions for Design and Engineering Operations; Multi-Year Agreement Gives Firm Access to More Than 500 Software Licenses.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers daratechPLANT2003 HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2003 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 today announced that Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a U.S. self-financed federal agency which transmits and sells wholesale electricity in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. (BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. ), a federal agency, under the U.S. Department of Energy, has chosen Bentley solutions for its long-term design and engineering operations under a multi-year Enterprise Subscription License. BPA, already standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. on Bentley MicroStation(R) since 1992, will now have access to the full breadth of Bentley's product line including MicroStation, Bentley discipline-specific vertical applications, and Bentley collaboration servers for 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 content management and publishing. Bentley will also provide integration and implementation services, training and support. BPA markets wholesale electrical power and operates and markets transmission services in the Pacific Northwest. Their service territory covers all of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and western Montana
Western Montana is the western region of the state of Montana, United States. Western Montana is usually considered to be administered by the Missoulian, and the city of Missoula; Billings , as well as small contiguous portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and eastern Montana The Great Plains stretch across Eastern Montana, an area that consists of the eastern half of the U.S. state of Montana and the north-central portion near Great Falls. The area is drained by the Missouri River, which originates in SW Montana, and by its tributaries, the Milk, the . Their wholesale customers include public utilities, public utility districts, municipal districts, public cooperatives, some investor-owned utilities and a few large industries such as aluminum companies. "BPA manages a multitude of engineering projects with distributed project teams," said Malcolm Walter, Bentley's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "Under this agreement, BPA has the ability to accommodate typical business cycles by allowing the number of licenses they use to fluctuate with current needs." MicroStation will continue to serve as the agency's primary engineering design platform, augmented by Bentley vertical solutions for building design, plant design, facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. , civil engineering and geospatial applications. BPA is also implementing a document management system for engineering content centered on Bentley ProjectWise(R). This software was chosen for its ease of use, simplified bulk loading capability, integration with the existing email solution and clear user and administrative interfaces. BPA is evaluating their use of Bentley products including digital plotting and publishing tools that will allow them to share valuable information in a secure environment. "Bonneville Power Administration has a public responsibility to assure an adequate, economical, efficient and reliable power supply to the Pacific Northwest," said Pat Berger, CAD Coordinator, BPA. "To be successful, we require a broad range of integrated solutions that allow us to optimize transmission operations and planning. This agreement with Bentley provides us not only easy access to the technology to be successful, but also a simplified and very cost effective licensing alternative that allows us to easily track individual product licenses and effectively collaborate with all remote offices." Bentley Enterprise Subscription License Program Bentley's Enterprise Subscription License is an annually renewed subscription program that entitles user organizations to full on-demand access, through Bentley SELECTserver(TM), to virtually the entire Bentley portfolio of AEC applications and collaboration servers. Enterprise Subscriber organizations are also entitled to a comprehensive range of Bentley SELECT services including enhancements, home licenses, training, technical support, on line resources, and other program benefits. Bentley's Enterprise Subscription License frees the organization's users from the administrative burden of individual procurement decisions in the deployment of Bentley technologies for fullest and fastest return on AEC content investments. About Bentley Bentley Systems, Inc., a global software vendor founded in 1984, provides software solutions to create, manage, and publish architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) content. Bentley enables leading AEC firms and owners to design, build, and operate facilities, industrial plants, roadways, and other essential infrastructure assets. Bentley delivers integrated building design, plant design, civil engineering, and geospatial solutions for transportation, process and discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. , government and public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. , building, and utilities. Bentley's 2002 revenues reached $230 million. Bentley software plays a mission-critical role in over two-thirds of the work of the Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Top 500 Design Firms. For more information, call 800/BENTLEY or visit us on the Web at www.bentley.com. Bentley, the "B" logo , ProjectWise and MicroStation are registered trademarks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or Bentley Software, Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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