CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 June 2007
Implementation Investments
City of Tilburg, Netherlands, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that Tilburg, the sixth largest city in The Netherlands, has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program. Tilburg will use its new MLS to provide its staff with a broader array of advanced software to satisfy the growing demand for infrastructure among its 200,000 citizens spread across almost 46 square miles.
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 by outfitting their entire mapping and engineering organizations with fully integrated software for GIS and engineering workflows. This leads to improved services and more efficient government.
Said Peter Emmen, Tilburg's CAD information coordinator, "The workflows and, hence, productivity of many of our city's 2200 staff members, including 86 CAD professionals and 150 additional staff who regularly review their output, depend heavily on our engineering, design, and GIS software. As a result, we did a careful analysis before joining Bentley's MLS program. We determined that increases in productivity provided by shorter software deployment times and fast, easy access to software upgrades will result in a substantial return on our investment."
A growing number of Tilburg's departments, including Land Surveying, Traffic Design, Urban Development, Sewer, and City Management, rely on Bentley software to design and manage the city's infrastructure, as well as to collaborate on projects. For example:
• MicroStation and Bentley Redline are used to help design the city's unique mix of traditional and contemporary infrastructure.
• Bentley Descartes XM is used to process aerial photography for mapping projects.
• MicroStation GeoGraphics provides the city with a range of mapping, analysis, presentation, project management, coordinate transformation, data creation, validation, and cleanup tools for a variety of GIS projects.
• The ProjectWise collaboration system helps staff members in various departments manage, find, and share CAD and geospatial content, project data, and Office documents.
• RoPlan, which is specially designed for municipalities in The Netherlands, is used for land management and land development projects to ensure conformity to Dutch standards for data sharing and cadastral records.
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 - roads, bridges, potable water, wastewater, and storm water infrastructure
• Land development
• E-government
• Light rail design
• Community broadband
• Electric and gas network design
• Water and wastewater treatment plant design
• Urban planning
• Cadastre management
• Public safety
• Municipal building design
• Mapping and 3D modeling
Said Emmen, "Although we are already using a number of Bentley's products and solutions, we look forward to piloting additional applications since we now have access to the entire MLS portfolio. Future deployments of Bentley software are likely to include Bentley Facilities Manager, Bentley Fiber, and Bentley Map."
Because program fees are fixed, Bentley's MLS guarantees predictable software costs and budgeting. In addition, it removes the administrative burden of complex software licenses, 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 http://www.bentley.com/MLS .
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