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Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping & Cadastre Selects Bentley.


PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1998--

Signs $1.9M Contract for Land Register Information System

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.) Thursday announced that the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and 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.  (CUZK) has selected Bentley in a public tender to provide software for ISKN ISKN informacný systém katastra nehnutelností , the Czech land register information system.

CUZK is purchasing a range of Bentley products, including MicroStation(R), MicroStation(R) GeoOutlook(R), MicroStation(R) PowerScope(TM), and ModelServer Continuum(TM), as well as implementation and training services provided by Bentley and developers Berit and Geovap. The total value of the 5-year contract is more than $1.9 million (US).

ISKN is a comprehensive project that includes development of a new land registration information system for restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the  of ownership, compensation and new land purchases. The information system will manage this new infrastructure and become the information source on the legal status and valuation of both public and private property.

The ISKN will contain geographical data and official maps as well as survey data, property attributes, and fund documentation.

"The Czech Republic's ISKN is a key part of the country's reform process that includes restitution and restoration of property titles annulled under communism, as well as recording new ownership through privatization privatization: see nationalization.
privatization

Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned
," explains Jiri Kratky, executive vice president, Bentley Central & Eastern Europe Eastern Europe

The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991.
.

He adds, "Establishing this information system is a prerequisite for the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the

European Community
."

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  • Charles XIV John, Charles XIV John, born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte.
  • Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist and novelist.
 Monnier, Bentley's vice president of geoengineering products says, "ModelServer Continuum technology allows the CUZK to combine 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.  -- cadastre maps and aspatial -- land data."

He continues, "This creates a single geoengineering information system and supports the comprehensive needs of ISKN. The multi-tier IT architecture allows for variable types of use of the data, including editing, reviewing and viewing, all pointing to server-based open data-stores."

CUZK purchased ModelServer Continuum, the first commercial information system to span enterprise and engineering data. Enterprises, government agencies, and organizations with heavy investments in engineering assets have long sought such a "contiguous" database.

Utility and telecommunications companies See telecom company. , highway departments, facility owners, and others using ModelServer Continuum can add critical engineering and spatial data to their business applications.

For example, Oracle(R) Universal Server Spatial Cartridge plus ModelServer Continuum allow asset planning, customer information, and maintenance scheduling systems to incorporate engineering details and provide map-based user interfaces.

Bentley and its strategic affiliates are committed to supporting the needs of large geoengineering users, such as the Czech Cadastre. NetSpace, which is a wholly owned strategic affiliate of Bentley, is focused on geoengineering solutions for utilities, telecommunications and municipalities.

Together with its partners, NetSpace offers products and services that focus on integration of geoengineering within the enterprise IT environment.

For more information on Bentley products, please contact Bentley at 1/800-BENTLEY, 610/458-5000 (Americas), +31 23/556-0560 (Europe, Middle East, Africa), +61 3/9699-8699 (Asia/Pacific), through E-mail at rachael.schroeder@bentley.com, or through http://www.bentley.com. The Bentley Wire automatically delivers company press releases through E-mail within minutes of being issued.

To subscribe, click http://www.bentley.com/news/bwire/.

More on the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (CUZK)

CUZK, as the central authority of state administration of surveying and land register, ensures the uniform execution of land register administration in the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , the construction and maintenance of point fields, the production and publishing of fundamental and thematic state maps and other publications, creation and management of automated surveying and land register information system and documentation of results of land surveying activity.

CUZK also coordinates land survey and land register research and coordinates an international survey and land register cooperation. CUZK directs the Land Survey Office, the surveying and cadastral ca·das·tre also ca·das·ter  
n.
A public record, survey, or map of the value, extent, and ownership of land as a basis of taxation.



[French, from Provençal cadastro, from Italian
 inspectorates and the cadastral offices. Presently, 115 of the cadastral offices with more than 5000 employees fall under the jurisdiction of CUZK.

More on Bentley

Bentley Systems Inc., is a worldwide leader in engineering software and user services. The Bentley Continuum(TM) is the company's comprehensive engineering IT strategy comprising products, services, and strategic affiliations. The company now serves over a quarter million professionals in building/plant engineering, geoengineering, and manufacturing engineering Manufacturing engineering

Engineering activities involved in the creation and operation of the technical and economic processes that convert raw materials, energy, and purchased items into components for sale to other manufacturers or into end products for
.

With revenues now over $150M annually, Bentley was listed as the largest privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 on the 1998 Softletter 100 and named to the 1998 Upside Hot 100.

Bentley's MicroStation(R) desktop and ModelServer(TM) Internet/intranet/extranet-based products are used at over 70% of the largest U.S. engineering firms. They form the software foundation of well-known buildings, roadways, machines, and industrial plants around the world. The Bentley SELECT(SM) technology and service subscription program now reaches over 150,000 users.

Bentley Strategic Affiliates, including GEOPAK, HMR HMR Hazardous Materials Regulations
HMR Human Resources
HMR Home Meal Replacement
HMR Hamrun (postal locality, Malta)
HMR Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal, Canada) 
, Jacobus Technology, NetSpace Systems, and WorkPlace System Solutions, provide project services and the world's best and most interoperable engineering applications to Bentley users. More information about Bentley and Bentley Strategic Affiliates is available at www.bentley.com.

Bentley, GeoOutlook, and MicroStation are registered trademarks, PowerScope, ModelServer Continuum, ModelServer, and the Bentley Continuum are trademarks; and Bentley SELECT is a service mark of Bentley Systems Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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