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Sunday, May 31. 2009
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Podcast: Exclusive Interview with Greg Bentley, CEO, Bentley Systems
Recently, Editor in Chief Joe Francica met with Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, the geospatial and engineering software and solutions company. He sat down with Bentley at his office in Exton, PA and discussed the company's focus on infrastructure, a timely topic given the global investments being made by many countries to stem the economic downturn. Bentley discussed the company's financial position and how the economy has affected revenue performance. He mentioned that the company reached two significant milestones this year: Bentley attained $500M in revenue in 2008 and it will also celebrate 25 years in business. This audio interview lasts approximately 25 minutes and was recorded on May 19th, 2009.
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Wednesday, May 27. 2009
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Bentley Integrates Anoto Technology into ProjectWise
The solution is called ProjectWise Dynamic plot. The Bentley data is printed from data stored and managed in ProjectWise. The plot includes a printed grid used to track markup done with a special pen. When the pen in docked, the markup is made available as a layer to the appropriate design files. Bentley has licensed technology from Anoto to put the "dots" on the paper through its printing/publishing software. Bentley sells the Anoto pens directly.
I first saw this technology at a BE Event several years ago as part of Bentley's Applied Research Labs exhibit.
In a virtual press conference today Joe Croser, Global Marketing Director, Platform at Bentley referred to the solution as non-disruptive. John Simons, Director, Product Management explained that the big difference in this solution in comparison to Adapx solution (which works with ArcGIS, based on the same technology) is that this solution is distributed. The pen does not require synchonization - that is, just start drawing with the pen on the paper. Notification of changes is done via a separate notification system in ProjectWise. A 600 or 1200 DPI color printer is required, but it fairly common in engineering shops.
Details of pricing were not shared since they vary from country to country.
The product is available as of today.
- press release
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Tuesday, May 19. 2009
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Podcast: DigitalGlobe IPO: Pushing Geospatial into IT?
This week DigitalGlobe joined the ranks of other companies that are publicly traded. Does this move and the related buzz help move geospatial technology into the realm of the broader information technology space? How should we see this change? Also: concerns about GeoEye-1 push that company's stock down.
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Tuesday, April 21. 2009
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Podcast: Exploring the Geospatial Lexicon
This week we look at some new and old terms creeping into and out of conversations about location technology. Have you heard about Hybrid GIS or Dislocation Intelligence? What words stay with us and which disappear?
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Wednesday, March 11. 2009
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Bentley Systems Profiled in Philadelphia Business Today
Philadelphia Business Today profiled Bentley Systems as company likely to benefit from the U.S. economic stimulus package. The TV news program reported that the company made $500 in revenues last year with a substantial portion of that coming from foreign sources. CEO Greg Bentley was asked about some of the work being done by his employees based in foreign countries like Pakistan.
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Friday, March 6. 2009
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Bentley Updates BE Conference to Online Seminar Series
I read about this earlier in the week on Matt Ball's blog. I didn't cover it since I expected it'd be "news" everywhere by now. It's not.
Some are saying BE is "cancelled," though Bentley is positioning the change as a response to its users' situations. Somewhere wrapped in, I'm confident, the plan change reflects Bentley's situation as well. The event, for those who've not attended, struck me as on the "fancy" side of those I've attended. The "dress up" BE Awards really did have an Academy Awards feel. The awards event, renamed Be Inspired Awards, will be held in the fall as a one day affair for finalists.
What interested me about this change is that the news came not from Bentley (at least to date), but via two blogs. Matt, as I noted posted about it on Wednesday and yesterday Ralph Grabowski noted it on his WorldCAD Access blog. CAD guy Brad Holtz from Cyon just twittered about it yesterday. The only other tweeting on the matter is between someone who "respectfully disagrees" and a person I gather to be a Bentley user.
- Be Connected Event





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