Bentley Receives Oracle Spatial Excellence Award

Bentley Systems, USA, has received the 2011 Oracle Spatial Excellence Award for Partnership. The award recognises Bentley's long-term, broad support of Oracle Spatial in its extensive portfolio of geospatial desktop and server products, including Bentley Map, Bentley Electric, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Water, Bentley Gas, Bentley Geo Web Publisher and Bentley Geospatial Server. Bentley is a Gold-level member in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).  

This acknowledgement by Oracle underscores Bentley's commitment to advancing geographic information systems (GIS) for infrastructure through initiatives that enhance interoperability, including support of industry and de facto standards. Being a "good citizen" of Oracle Spatial streamlines users' workflows, ensures data integrity, and helps users align with their enterprise IT strategies when Oracle is one of their preferred vendors.

Robert Mankowski, Bentley Vice President, Simulation Product Management, said that key components of Bentley's geospatial strategy to advance GIS for infrastructure include empowering its users to employ Oracle Spatial data natively and extract the maximum value from it. The data can be used across extended workflows and is easily accessed by industry-specific applications for the design and maintenance of infrastructure assets. These objectives continue to drive Bentley's close and extensive work with Oracle.

Ron McLeroy, Technical Services Manager, Huntsville Utilities, has the experience that one of the primary reasons that Huntsville Utilities chose Bentley's utility distribution design products was because they work natively with Oracle Spatial, their corporate standard database. This interoperability ensures data quality, which in turn leads to shorter project cycles for the design of new electric, gas, and water utility infrastructure.

With Bentley software, users can confidently create standard Oracle Spatial data and, without having to employ proprietary schemas, tables, or fields, benefit from the use of: native 2D and 3D Oracle Spatial geometry data types, standard metadata and comprehensive coordinate systems support of Oracle Spatial or Oracle standard versioning (via Workspace Manager).

Bentley users can access Oracle Spatial data by attaching or opening the data directly from Oracle Database 11g, or by importing the data from Oracle Database 11g. Teams working in the field can edit their Oracle Spatial data even when they are not directly connected to it.

Bentley software provides transaction modes that support both direct editing and disconnected editing in either optimistic or pessimistic locking modes. With Bentley Map Enterprise or Bentley Geospatial Server, this support is elevated to include multi-user editing with audit trails providing short transactions without edit conflicts, long transactions with or without edit conflicts, history and valid time support.

Data types supported by Bentley's geospatial desktop and server products include geometry, topology, coordinate systems, text and feature-linked text, coded domains, Oracle Spatial 11g 3D (e.g., buildings, utilities, roads), and Oracle Spatial GeoRaster.