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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: Municipal License Subscription
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial Team on 25 December 2006

Alpena, Michigan joins subscription
program

Alpena uses its unlimited access to comprehensive GIS and engineering software portfolio for fixed annual fee to build 21st century GIS

Bentley Systems has announced that the City of Alpena, Michigan, has joined Bentley's Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program This community of 11,000 on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay will use its new MLS to help it implement road, water, sewer, and other infrastructure projects, as well as to build a 21st century GIS

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 organisations with fully integrated software for GIS and engineering workflows.

This leads to improved services and more efficient government.

Said Steve Shultz, assistant city engineer for Alpena, "Our engineering department has long used MicroStation, GEOPAK, MicroStation GeoGraphics, Bentley Water, Bentley Wastewater, and WaterCAD to design and manage the city's infrastructure with EarthTech, our sewer and water management contractor.

However, in smaller cities such as ours, each extra piece of software has to be extensively justified and its efficiency tracked.

This has limited our ability to build out the Bentley software functionality we would like to have in our technology toolbox.

"With our new MLS, we can access all the software we need for a very attractive price with no procurement hassles.

Already, we have benefited from access to new software packages such as Bentley fibre, which we expect to deploy shortly to support the building of a fibre optic network".

Continued Shultz, "We are also planning to deploy Bentley Geospatial Management so that we can interact with our subcontractors more effectively and share data with the County in the future.

Although not all the software used by those we interact with is Bentley software, Geospatial Management is able to handle all file types, including ESRI SHP files.

As a result, we are expecting a huge increase in productivity as files and projects are exchanged or shared across different organisations".

Bentley's MLS program provides municipalities with unlimited access to a comprehensive portfolio of integrated GIS and engineering software for all of their infrastructure.

Because the program's fee is 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.

Said Shultz, "With our MLS, not only are we able to cap our annual software costs, but we also can start new projects and complete them more quickly and cost effectively.

For example, we plan to deploy SewerCAD to help document our sewer network.

Once this is digitized, we will be able to do away with expensive and difficult-to-manage paper trails.

All those developing and managing the sewer network will be able to access the network data and edit it in real time.

We expect this to reduce costs and save a lot of time". Request a free brochure from Bentley Systems ...

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