"V8 Generation" Ushers in New Era of Integrated Engineering Content Creation, Management and Publishing

EXTON, PA - October 23, 2001 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, in a 90-minute presentation simulcast to 19 cities around the world, today announced the commercial availability of MicroStation V8, the most significant release to date in the evolution of the company's flagship product. MicroStation V8 is the first release of Bentley's V8 Generation, a new era of integrated engineering content creation, management and publishing across the boundaries of file formats, project teams and time zones.

"Bentley is following a deliberate strategy to advance computer-aided design from drawing and document production into engineering content modeling," said Keith Bentley, CTO of Bentley Systems, Inc. "MicroStation V8 focuses on improvements in three important areas: data exchange and interoperability; workflow efficiencies; and the enrichment of MicroStation as an application development platform."

MicroStation V8 provides a unified design environment for any project without the need to divide project teams or to re-train them based on file formats. No longer explicitly tied to the DGN file format, MicroStation V8 will natively reference and edit AutoCAD DWG files directly, making it the universal engineering design platform for the world's two most popular Computer-Aided Design formats. MicroStation V8 fully and transparently accommodates AutoCAD DWG data including graphics, layers, viewports and layouts. The information in DWG files and DGN files can be interchanged, even in the same session, via references. This makes back-and-forth or round-trip translations unnecessary even within projects where both AutoCAD and MicroStation are used.

MicroStation V8's new design history feature automatically maintains a complete change history in every DGN file, regardless of engineering discipline or application. Design history adds the dimension of time to design data through a comprehensive log mechanism called a history journal. The journal is the accountability trail that tracks all changes made on a design, including what changed, the date and time the changes were made, who made them and comments about why the changes were made. Empowered with this knowledge, project managers can more accurately monitor progress, predict project success, and track project metrics.

"Our engineers and architects involved in the beta program for MicroStation V8 find it to be the most powerful and compatible CAD software available," said Dan Steeley, director of design automation at LJB in Ohio. "The most outstanding aspects we see are our ability to directly edit data in DWG format and the inclusion of design history in DGN files. We expect to benefit immediately from the DWG feature as we routinely serve clients on multiple CAD platforms. The design history data lets us add the dimension of time to a drawing, which allows us to track all revisions and even return to a previous state of a drawing."

"Bentley has long been recognized for its strong technological vision, consistent delivery of high-function products, and standing as one of the market's leaders," said Bruce Jenkins, executive vice president of Daratech. "Now, with MicroStation V8's revolutionary support for both the DWG and DGN formats, its unique ability to track design history for management-of- change, and a strong portfolio of discipline-specific applications based on V8 technology, Bentley is positioned to further accelerate its progress in the market."

MicroStation V8 includes hundreds of other user- and application-level enhancements including automatic referencing and unit conversion, project standards libraries, AccuSnap, AutoLocate, embedded XML, and support for the industry-standard Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

Pricing and Availability MicroStation V8 is available for immediate web download or on a MySELECT CD to Bentley SELECT subscribers at http://selectservices.bentley.com/. MicroStation V8 is priced at $4,450 US for Bentley SELECT Certificate licenses. (All prices USD MSRP, actual pricing may vary).

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides the most comprehensive portfolio of solutions and professional services to the leading infrastructure engineering organizations around the world, including the majority of the ENR Top 500 Design Firms.

Since 1984, architects, engineers, builders and owner/operators have relied on these focused industry solutions that build upon Bentley MicroStation to help them effectively create, manage and publish engineering content critical to the profitable construction and management of infrastructure and facility assets. One of the largest software companies in the world, Bentley's reach spans the globe, serving more than 300,000 professionals and more than 20,000 companies and organizations.

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