Thursday, May 29. 2008

Bentley Cited as #2 Geospatial Provider by Daratech

Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems cited a report from Daratech, the market research firm, that had named his company the #2 provider of geospatial software in the world. In the report, Daratech puts ESRI @ ~$540 Million and Bentley at ~$200 Million in revenues for geospatial software. Bentley said, "There is not any avenue of our solutions that is separated from geospatial."

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Tuesday, May 20. 2008

Bentley Wants Leadership Role in Energy Analysis Solutions

Citing several acquisitions made by the company within the last year, Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, illustrated for attendees at this year's BE Conference in Baltimore how he wants his company to lead the way in providing solutions for energy consumption, analysis and conservation. 2007 was a record year for technology acquisitions for the company to support this vision:

• LEAP Software - analysis and design for concrete bridges; ProConcrete will be available at the end of 2009.
• ECT International Inc - electrical control systems for reducing electrical design time.
• Hevacomp Ltd. - virtual energy models and software tools for electrical design and to promote low energy solutions; it is the largest UK building services provider which also provides HVAC solutions; Hevacomp's software was originally designed used to increase productivity for design tasks and is used to improve energy efficiency of buildings with an energy analysis package.
• Environmental Design Solutions Ltd. and Bentley have agreed to a worldwide distribution of EDSL’s Tas software – an easy to use fluid dynamic software modeling solution.

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