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BentleySystems, Incorporated is an American-based software development company that develops, manufactures, licenses, sells and supports computer software and services for the design, construction, and operation of infrastructure. The company's software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. Their software products are used to design, engineer, build, and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, railways, bridges, buildings, industrial plants, power plants, and utility networks. The company re-invests 20% of their revenues in research and development.[2]

Bentley Systems is headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, United States, but has development, sales and other departments in over 50 countries. In 2021, the company generated revenue of $1 billion in 186 countries.[3]

Bentley has three principal software product lines: MicroStation, ProjectWise, and AssetWise.[citation needed] Since 2014, some products have been based on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.[4][5]

Keith A. Bentley and Barry J. Bentley founded Bentley Systems in 1984.[6] They introduced the commercial version of PseudoStation in 1985, which allowed users of Intergraph's VAX systems to use low-cost graphics terminals to view and modify the designs on their Intergraph IGDS (Interactive Graphics Design System) installations.[7] Their first product was shown to potential users who were polled as to what they would be willing to pay for it. They averaged the answers, arriving at a price of $7,943.[8] A DOS-based version of MicroStation was introduced in 1986.[9]

On June 18, 1997, Bentley acquired IdeaGraphix, a developer of MicroStation-based application software for architecture, engineering, and facilities management.[15] On January 15, 1998, Bentley acquired Jacobus.[16] On January 2, 2001, Bentley acquired Intergraph's civil engineering, plot-services and raster conversion software businesses.[17] On October 17, 2001, Bentley Systems bought Geopak design software for road and rail infrastructure.[18]

Bentley Systems acquired Rebis in 2003,[19] Infrasoft Corporation in 2003,[20] Haestad Methods, Inc. in 2004,[21] and then agreed to acquire netGuru's Research Engineers International (REI) business which included its STAAD structural analysis and design product line on August 31, 2005.[22] Bentley acquired GEF-RIS AG in 2006,[23] KIWI Software in 2007,[24] C.W. Beilfuss and Associates in 2007,[25] and TDV GmbH, an analysis and design software provider for bridge engineering, in May 2007.[26]

On October 13, 2009, Bentley added geotechnical and geoenvironmental capabilities with the acquisition of gINT Software.[31] On February 9, 2010, Bentley Systems announced two acquisitions: Exor Corporation and Enterprise Informatics.[32] On March 2, 2011, Bentley Systems acquired SACS software for offshore structural analysis from Engineering Dynamics, Inc.[33] Also in 2011, Bentley acquired FormSys[34] and Pointools Ltd., a British developer of point-cloud software technology.[35]

In 2012, Bentley acquired the elcoSystem software business of Hannappel Software,[36] as well as InspectTech Systems, USA, a provider of field inspection applications and asset management services for bridges and other transportation assets.[37] Also that year it acquired Canadian-based Ivara,[38] the Microprotol pressure vessel design and analysis software from EuResearch,[39] and SpecWave.[40]

On January 23, 2018, Bentley acquired S-Cube Futuretech Pvt Ltd. to expand its offerings specific to the concrete engineering design and documentation software users in India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.[49][50] On April 26, 2018, Bentley acquired Dutch geotechnical modelling company Plaxis B.V.[51]

On July 15, 2018, Bentley acquired Canadian geotechnical modeling company SOILVISION Systems Ltd. in order to enhance its 3D geotechnical offerings.[51] Also in 2018, the company acquired Synchro,[52] Agency9,[53] LEGION,[54] ACE enterprise Slovakia,[55] and Alworx.[56] In 2019, Bentley acquired SignCAD Systems,[57] Keynetix,[58] and Citilabs, Inc. & Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies.[59]

In 2020, Bentley acquired UK based consultancy Professional Construction Strategies Group (PCSG),[60] and SRO Solutions.[60] In 2021, Bentley acquired Ontracks Consulting,[61] INRO Software,[62] SPIDA Software,[63] and Seequent Holdings Limited,[64] and in 2022 acquisitions included Power Line Systems,[65] ADINA R&D, Inc.,[66] and Eagle.io.[67]

In 2023, Bentley acquired Salt Lake City, Utah-based Blyncsy, a provider of breakthrough artificial intelligence services for departments of transportation to support operations and maintenance activities.[68][69]

Bentley Systems also is a publisher of textbooks and professional references for the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC), operations, geospatial, and educational communities, under the name Bentley Institute Press.[70][71]

A virtual representation of a physical object or system, a digital twin uses real-time data and other sources to enable learning, reasoning, and dynamic recalibration and control for improved decision making.

Helping its users achieve their digital transformation and business goals, the company collaborates closely with Microsoft to develop groundbreaking solutions to empower engineers, constructors, and owner-operators to design, build, and operate infrastructure assets that are more cost-effective, resilient, and sustainable.

Though artificial intelligence (AI) research and development has been a promising part of the technology ecosystem since the 1950s, in just the past five years there has been a rapid evolution and the emergence of megatrends that signify a golden age of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Sectors including infrastructure, finance, defense, and space are already making use of sophisticated applications of these technologies.

Bentley is now driving real value for its users with AI and machine learning. Advances in hardware and processing power have enabled neural network computing. Big data, whether in the public sector or commercial, has massive storage requirements that cloud is uniquely able to accommodate. Cloud infrastructure is democratizing this technology, making it available to a broad set of stakeholders.

Applying AI and advanced analytics to solve real-world infrastructure challenges, Bentley is helping its users answer urgent questions, such as: How do we continue to deliver the service levels expected from our infrastructure in an environment of reduced government budgets, aging assets, and a workforce cycling through new generations without relevant experience and historical perspective?

By federating and aggregating data from multiple sources into a digital twin, applications can now begin to apply AI and machine learning to operate and reason across these datasets, many of which were previously locked away in silos or inscrutable formats. Addressing the challenges of infrastructure owners and the engineering ecosystem, Bentley is bringing AI to manage data in the digital twin, identifying patterns, doing predictive analytics, and isolating anomalies to solve complex problems crucial to sustaining the environment and growing economies.

Bentley believes that its relationship with Microsoft allows it to bring its solutions forward to achieve better outcomes for its users. Microsoft technology has helped Bentley grow from a leader in computer-aided design and drafting, to modeling and geographic information systems (GIS) and IoT, and now, going beyond, to 4D digital twins.

Azure enables organizations of all sizes and across industry verticals to achieve their short- and long-term goals with a proven cloud infrastructure designed to help create and align business and technical strategies. With Azure AI services, organizations can build mission-critical solutions to analyze images, comprehend speech, uncover latent insights, and make predictions using data from across all their business.

Bentley recently committed to funding a multimillion-dollar investment to accelerate infrastructure digital twin technology by helping grow an ecosystem of developers and partners to apply digital twins across multiples industries and domains. The company offers a comprehensive range of world-class integrated solutions tailored to meet the demands of multidiscipline project teams in a wide range of industries.

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction provides power generation and engineering and construction services in South Korea. Doosan worked with Bentley Systems and Microsoft to develop a digital twin of its wind farms, allowing operators to remotely monitor equipment performance and predict energy generation based on weather conditions. The Azure-powered digital twin combines real-time and historical IoT, weather, and other operational data with physics-based and machine learning-based models to accurately predict production output for each turbine in the farm. Based on the simulated models, Doosan can adjust the performance of individual turbines, maximizing energy production and generating insights that will improve the design of its next-generation wind turbines.

Bentley is using Azure Mixed Reality services and Microsoft HoloLens 2 to improve bridge inspection for innovative states and engineering firms, such as Minnesota Department of Transportation and Collins Engineers. In the United States alone, there are more the 600,000 bridges, a key part of the infrastructure that keeps the country running. Using drones to capture high-resolution images, users can create precise digital twins for a bridge. Azure Remote Rendering services produce real-time, high-fidelity renderings of the bridge so that multiple experts can view large sections of the structure at the same time. Leveraging the power of HoloLens 2 devices, inspectors can visualize sections of the bridge, adding spatial notes, dimensions, and other markings for detailed, contextual information on the structure. This combination of Bentley solutions and Microsoft technologies can save 40 percent in total costs for each bridge inspection. Using these powerful new tools on just 10 percent of their total inventory of bridges, the state of Minnesota Department of Transportation is projecting a savings of USD 4 million per year, which can be used to fix aging infrastructure.

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