City of Alpena, Michigan, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program.Will Use Its Unlimited Access to Comprehensive GIS and Engineering Software Portfolio for Fixed Annual Fee To Build 21(st) Century GIS EXTON, Pa. -- 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 the City of Alpena, Michigan Alpena is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,304. It is the county seat of Alpena County6. The city is on the shore of Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, with Alpena Township surrounding it on land. , has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS See multilevel security. ) program. This community of 11,000 on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. will use its new MLS to help it implement road, water, sewer, and other infrastructure projects, as well as to build a 21st century GIS. Bentley's MLS offers municipalities all the software they need to design and manage all their infrastructure for a fixed annual fee based on population. The breakthrough program enables them to improve productivity and reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. by outfitting their entire mapping and engineering organizations with fully integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. for GIS and engineering workflows. This leads to improved services and more efficient government. Said Steve Shultz, assistant city engineer for Alpena, "Our engineering department has long used MicroStation, GEOPAK, MicroStation GeoGraphics, Bentley Water, Bentley Wastewater, and WaterCAD to design and manage the city's infrastructure with EarthTech, our sewer and water management contractor. However, in smaller cities such as ours, each extra piece of software has to be extensively justified and its efficiency tracked. This has limited our ability to build out the Bentley software functionality we would like to have in our technology toolbox. "With our new MLS, we can access all the software we need for a very attractive price with no procurement hassles. Already, we have benefited from access to new software packages such as Bentley Fiber, which we expect to deploy shortly to support the building of a fiber optic network." Continued Shultz, "We are also planning to deploy Bentley Geospatial Management so that we can interact with our subcontractors more effectively and share data with the County in the future. Although not all the software used by those we interact with is Bentley software, Geospatial Management is able to handle all file types, including ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. SHP files. As a result, we are expecting a huge increase in productivity as files and projects are exchanged or shared across different organizations." Bentley's MLS program provides municipalities with unlimited access to a comprehensive portfolio of integrated GIS and engineering software for all of their infrastructure, including: * 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. - roads, bridges, water, sewer, and storm * Land development * E-government * Light rail design * Community broadband * Water and wastewater treatment plant Wastewater treatment plant also called wastewater treatment works
* Urban planning urban planning: see city planning. urban planning Programs pursued as a means of improving the urban environment and achieving certain social and economic objectives. * Cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. management * Public safety * Municipal building design * Mapping and 3D modeling Because the program's fee is fixed, Bentley's MLS guarantees predictable software costs and budgeting. In addition, it removes the administrative burden of complex software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. , shortens procurement cycles, speeds project starts, and ultimately leads to more efficient government. Said Shultz, "With our MLS, not only are we able to cap our annual software costs, but we also can start new projects and complete them more quickly and cost effectively. For example, we plan to deploy SewerCAD to help document our sewer network. Once this is digitized, we will be able to do away with expensive and difficult-to-manage paper trails. All those developing and managing the sewer network will be able to access the network data and edit it in real time. We expect this to reduce costs and save a lot of time." For more information about Bentley's MLS program initiative and software or to contact a Bentley representative, visit www.bentley.com/MLS. About the City of Alpena Incorporated in 1871, the City of Alpena overlooks Lake Huron's picturesque Thunder Bay. The wood, cement, and heavy machinery industries of Alpena stemmed from a long industrial heritage that started with logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. the 1800s. Besides these industries, Alpena offers to the public an abundance of businesses, along with a community college and a regional medical center. Throughout the 8.93 square miles that make up the City of Alpena are many inviting residential areas and recreational activities for its more than 11,000 residents and visitors to continuously enjoy. For more information, visit www.alpena.mi.us. About Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (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 operations. With 2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2000 colleagues around the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's May 2006 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/May2006annualreport. Bentley, the "B" logo, Municipal License Subscription, MicroStation, GEOPAK, MicroStation GeoGraphics, Bentley Water, Bentley Wastewater, WaterCAD, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Geospatial Management, and SewerCAD are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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