City of Lakeland, Florida, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program.To Make its Engineers More Productive, Expand Their Access to Advanced Software, and Enable the City to Deliver Enhanced Services to its Citizens LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- 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 Lakeland, Florida Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States, located approximately midway between Tampa and Orlando along Interstate 4. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 78,452 and is the largest city in Polk County. According to the 2004 U.S. , has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS See multilevel security. ) program. The city will use its new MLS to make its engineers more productive and expand their access to advanced software. This will enable Lakeland to deliver enhanced services to its citizens at the lowest reasonable cost while maintaining its reputation as a low-tax city. 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. Lakeland provides its 91,623 citizens with a complete array of services, including electric power, water, wastewater and stormwater management (within the city's 72.2-square-mile area), land development, road maintenance, 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' , to cite just a few. It also generates and distributes electric power from its city-owned-and-operated power utility to 253,405 residents spread over a 246-square-mile area. Said Tracy Kirkpatrick, Lakeland's assistant director, Department of Information Technology, "With our MLS, for close to the same price as our former subscription, we can access more than 10 times the number of Bentley products and solutions. Given the breadth of services that Lakeland delivers to its citizens, this is clearly an opportunity to which we had to say yes." He continued, "There are a number of products we are anxious to test and possibly deploy - for example, Bentley Expert Designer to improve the productivity of our engineers when designing and operating our electric distribution network. However, at the top of our list is Bentley's ProjectWise collaboration system. Its implementation will help us support our site development workflows and eventually make Lakeland an excellent example of e-government in action." Lakeland believes that site development automation will bring substantial savings through data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. among city departments and external contractors and developers. In the medium term, the city foresees all of the paper in the site development process being replaced by digital documents posted to ProjectWise - available to users through secure log-ins and privileges. Currently, every time a contractor applies for a permit on a project, it has to submit 10 paper copies of all the specifications and drawings. Benefits Lakeland is already enjoying from its new MLS include the ability to provide project teams with an increased number of licenses for the Bentley products it is currently deploying. Among these are MicroStation, Digital InterPlot, InRoads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ , PlantSpace, and SewerGEMS. As Kirkpatrick explained, "With our MLS, our engineers don't have to wait for access to, say, a MicroStation license. Previously, we sometimes had to ask field engineers to bring in their laptops after just 48 hours in order to free up licenses for more pressing assignments. Now, our field engineers can keep their laptops and MicroStation licenses out in the field for months at a time. The same holds true for the other Bentley products we regularly deploy." In addition, the city is saving both time and money as a result of dramatic reductions in software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. times. As Kirkpatrick said, "With our old subscription it would take us a year to go through our planning and budgeting process, followed by a lengthy procurement process once the budget had been approved. Today, we just download the software we need and go from there. Without question, the MLS is making us a more nimble and responsive organization." 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 * Electric and gas network design * 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 fees are 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. For more information about Bentley's MLS program initiative and software or to contact a Bentley representative, visit www.bentley.com/MLS. About Lakeland, Florida Centrally located between Tampa and Orlando, the City of Lakeland, Florida, offers its 91,623 residents and many visitors a wide variety of sports, entertainment, cultural, and educational opportunities. Lakeland is the heart of Polk County Polk County is the name of twelve counties in the United States, all except two named after president of the United States James Knox Polk:
Lakeland has received the distinction of being on Money Magazine's "Best Place to Live in America" list. In addition, Lakeland is home to Publix Supermarkets and Florida Southern College History The college was founded in Orlando in 1883, and moved to Leesburg in 1885 (some debate this to be the true establishment) under the sponsorship of the United Methodist Church and was open to both male and female students. , which hosts the largest one-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, and has been the winter host home to the Detroit Tigers for over 65 years. For more information, visit the official City of Lakeland site at www.lakelandgov.net. About BE Conference The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley user organizations offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure. For more information on BE Conference 2007, taking place this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. in California, go to www.be.org. 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 revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top 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 April 2007 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport. Bentley, the "B" logo, BE, Bentley Expert Designer, Municipal License Subscription, MicroStation, ProjectWise, Digital InterPlot, SewerGEMS, InRoads, and PlantSpace 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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