CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 September 2007
Implementation Investments
City of Magdeburg, Germany, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that the city of Magdeburg , Germany, has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program. The city will use its new MLS to further expand services to its almost 230,000 citizens - highlighted by enhanced city planning data and a wider variety of thematic maps on Magdeburg's public Web portal. All of this is made possible through the city's deployment of Bentley solutions for local governments.
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 Udo Seipold, project manager, Internet/GIS Team of KID Magdeburg, the city's outsourced IT department, "Magdeburg has long relied on a number of Bentley's products and solutions for its infrastructure design and management needs. MicroStation, ProjectWise InterPlot, Bentley Geo Web Publisher, Bentley Descartes, Bentley I/RAS B, and InRoads are all critically important to the city's departments for everything from preparing data for Web services to land-use planning, plotting maps, road cadastre, city park maintenance, and the list goes on.
"As you can imagine, the administrative work involved in managing all that software for all those tasks was quite demanding. Someone had to constantly check to see which staff members were using what licenses and then juggle priorities if requests for new deployments exceeded available licenses. And anyone looking to purchase new software could wait a year or more for budgetary approval."
Continued Seipold, "With our new MLS, all of these problems have disappeared. Licenses are immediately available to meet staff members' needs - no matter how many licenses are already in use. And beyond the initial budget approval for the program, no signatures are needed to acquire additional software applications."
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
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.
Added Seipold, "Our ability to acquire additional software applications without paying more money makes it very easy for us to try out new solutions. It means that we have everything to gain and virtually nothing to lose from a pilot application. As a result, Magdeburg already has a number of new deployments queued up, including two new InRoads seats, speedikon products for some of our architectural needs, 10 additional Bentley Geo Web Publisher seats, some Bentley PowerMap Field licenses for data processing in the field, as well as MicroStation TriForma and InRoads Suite."
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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