City of Toronto, Canada, Joins Bentley's Municipal License Subscription Program.

To Equip its Teams With the Best Engineering Solutions Available and Help it Better Serve the Infrastructure Needs of its 2.6 Million Citizens

LOS ANGELES -- Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of Toronto, Canada, has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription

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.

Commenting on the city's new MLS, Wally Kowalenko, Toronto's director, Survey and Mapping, said, "We can now equip our GIS and engineering teams with the very best in GIS and engineering solutions from Bentley irrespective of the list price of the software. We expect this to make us a more effective and efficient organization in the longer term.

"Moreover, our MLS will also help us standardize our GIS and engineering platforms and this, too, will make us more efficient. We will have fewer types of file formats to manage, and training can be focused on a single, unified set of software solutions. In addition, software acquisition and procurement procedures will be streamlined."

Nearly all of Toronto's departments, including technical services, transportation, police, fire, ambulance, and water, already deploy Bentley solutions. Two sister organizations, Toronto Hydro and Toronto Transit, use Bentley software for electric power distribution and bus and light rail services, respectively, while the city's GIS team uses Bentley's geospatial products to maintain core GIS data. The data includes cadastral information, parcel information, street center lines, addresses, topography, aerial photography, and the enterprise GIS databases used by other departments.

Bentley software solutions currently employed by Toronto include MicroStation, Bentley I/RAS B, InRoads, InRoads Site, InRoads Storm and Sanitary, and InRail. However, this list will grow substantially as a result of the city's new MLS.

Said Kowalenko, "We will immediately begin to deploy more of the InRoads software. We are also exploring the possibility of deploying ProjectWise in conjunction with our enterprise workflow system to help share data and manage our engineering project documentation. In the longer term, we expect to deploy many new Bentley software solutions."

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, water, sewer, and storm

* 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 the program's 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.

As Kowalenko continued, "We expect that the MLS program will be a prime agent in improving the services that we deliver to our citizens. Citizens don't see what is behind the delivery of a service, but they certainly know, and appreciate, when it is delivered in an optimal manner.

"Behind improved service delivery are harmonized business processes, harmonized software platforms, standards-based development, integration with enterprise systems, better reporting, and better mobile solutions for field technicians. We are beginning to map out how additional software from Bentley will positively impact all of these elements of our local government operation and look forward to its deployment."

For more information about Bentley's MLS program initiative and software or to contact a Bentley representative, visit www.bentley.com/MLS.

About Toronto

Toronto is Canada's largest city and sixth largest government, and home to a diverse population of about 2.6 million people. It is the economic engine of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative cities in North America. In the past three years Toronto has won more than 50 awards for quality and innovation in delivering public services. Toronto's government is dedicated to prosperity, opportunity, and liveability for all its residents. For more information, visit www.toronto.ca.

About BE Conference

The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley user organizations offering professional training, technology updates, keynotes, and best practice sharing. At these sessions, attendees better themselves, better their organizations, and better the ways they can improve the world's infrastructure.

For more information on BE Conference 2007, taking place this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, go to www.be.org.

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.

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