7 November 2008

The Bentley Community of Greater Philadelphia event was held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Philadelphia, this year

Bentley Systems has released V8i, which it claims is the most comprehensive software portfolio for infrastructure to be assembled in a single release. Bentley used its Philadelphia user group event, and a global broadcast online, to explain how it has grouped its solutions into the V8i portfolio and added the core capabilities of its new interoperability platform to provide the breadth and depth of technology needed for fully integrated project delivery.

V8i’s interoperability platform can enable Bentley applications to persist, share, and visualise infrastructure asset data in a common way, promoting collaborative workflows. The result, says Bentley, is a project environment that combines flexibility, scalability, and robustness, as well as a portfolio that offers engineers, architects, GIS professionals, constructors, and owner-operators unprecedented choices across discipline-specific integrated software and services incorporated in Bentley solutions. Developed as a collective whole, the V8i software portfolio facilitates streamlined workflows among multiple disciplines and across project teams throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

As well as interoperability between Bentley products, V8i also supports international standards for data integration. Bentley claims that among the innovative core capabilities of V8i are intuitive design modelling, interactive dynamic views, intrinsic geo-coordination, and incredible project performance. V8i delivers a series of productivity and accessibility gains through accelerated file transfer between locations – with 10x performance gains being the norm for average files sizes – and full read/write integration with Microsoft SharePoint provided for improved overall usability.

“We are confident that the release of V8i will introduce significant innovation and workflow improvements that set new benchmarks for infrastructure professions in virtually every discipline,” said CTO Keith Bentley.

We are confident that the release of V8i will introduce significant innovation and workflow improvements that set new benchmarks for infrastructure professions in virtually every discipline

Keith Bentley, CTO CEO Greg Bentley added: “V8i moves emphatically beyond merely computer-aiding the production of traditional ‘deliverables,’ including design, drawings, and models. Our mandate for the portfolio has been to provide our users with the capabilities they need to increase their cost-efficiencies and maximise the return on their investments in innovation, empowering them to design, build, and operate better-performing infrastructure projects and assets.”

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