Bentley Introduces New Geospatial Product Portfolio

Bentley Systems (MD, USA) has introduced a new geospatial product portfolio with powerful GIS capabilities that supports infrastructure engineering workflows across the entire asset lifecycle, from planning, design, and construction to operations and decommissioning. These products synthesise engineering and geospatial workflows, dispensing with data silos and bridging the traditional divide between GIS specialists and the engineering community.

Newly introduced products in the portfolio include Bentley Map and Bentley Cadastre as well as Bentley Geospatial Server. These new geospatial products will be deployed across multiple solution communities, including cadastre and land development, electric and gas utilities, water and wastewater utilities, communications service providers, and others.

Bentley Map and Bentley Cadastre

Bentley Map is software for managing the world's infrastructure in a geospatial context. Bentley Map combines powerful GIS functionality with all of the editing precision and graphics capabilities of MicroStation to support extensive spatial analysis, thematic mapping, presentation, and plot production.

Using the software's Geospatial Administrator, end-users can configure business and topological rules without programming. In addition, Bentley Map can edit Oracle Spatial and other GIS data types, including ESRI SHP files. Its flexible output includes 2D and 3D PDFs.

Bentley Geospatial Server

Bentley Geospatial Server extends ProjectWise capabilities, adding powerful enterprise access to Oracle Spatial and other enterprise GIS data stores. Bentley Geospatial Server also provides unique enterprise access to heterogeneous engineering documentation, whether spatial or nonspatial in nature, through a spatially enabled interface. Bentley Geospatial Server is a federated environment that unites information independently of its source, allowing users to leverage and unify information stored in both spatial databases and as unstructured documents. In addition, it enables live Oracle Spatial editing with long transactions through Bentley Map, intelligent, distributed printing and plotting, and support for enterprise collaboration and configurable workflows.

Additional Products in the Geospatial Portfolio

Bentley's wider portfolio of geospatial products includes products for high productivity visualisation, raster-to-vector document conversion; extending spatial data into the field to support offline access to enterprise data; and products for publishing spatial and nonspatial data over the web to intranets, extranets, and public websites. In addition, Bentley provides products that support geospatial and engineering workflows in specific industries, including water and wastewater utilities, electric and gas utilities, and communications service providers.