December 28, 2014 - Bentley Systems is pleased to announce it will soon launch a new OpenUtilities product line that will extend the capabilities of Bentley Utilities Designer to Bentley’s sisNET user base in EMEA. Capabilities unique to the sisNET product line will also be included along with the functionality of WaterCAD and SewerCAD to support typical distribution designs.
Daniel Steinhilber, GIS administrator/quality assurance lead, wesernetz Bremen GmbH, said, “We are very excited about OpenUtilities providing a promising future for the sisNET community. Bentley has been keeping us involved in their plans for moving their utilities products forward. We are currently aligning our plans to ensure that we can make a smooth transition once OpenUtilities becomes available to us.”
The OpenUtilities product line consists of three offerings. OpenUtilities Map is a desktop GIS for multi-utilities. OpenUtilities Designer is an enterprise-level GIS for large utilities that also includes design workflow management and on-the-fly estimating during intelligent design. OpenUtilities PowerView is a light GIS visualization and editing tool suitable for all utilities. The launch of OpenUtilities in early 2015 will enable all users to benefit from the most current Bentley Map capabilities and its use of open spatial databases, as well as leverage Bentley’s mobile GIS applications. Water and wastewater utilities will benefit from the incorporation of the hydraulics and hydrology modeling capabilities of Bentley’s WaterCAD and SewerCAD.
