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Server-level Information Broker for Engineering Projects Gains New Power to Integrate Information from Diverse Sources

Philadelphia, PA, Bentley International User Conference - September 28, 1999 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Exton, PA), today announced that its Web-based ModelServerr IntegratorT product includes support for eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and aecXML.

ModelServer Integrator is an information broker for engineering projects that enables engineering enterprises to assemble information from multiple databases and software applications and present relevant, timely, and accurate information to users throughout the organization.

ModelServer Integrator's support of XML allows users to take full advantage of the wealth of rapidly emerging support tools, technology, and standards built around XML in such areas as e-commerce and data exchange. Important among these is the industry-wide aecXML effort which Bentley initiated earlier this year (www.aecxml.org). In this initiative, the aecXML Working Group is a forum for industry, government, research communities and end users to contribute to an XML schema particularly suited for architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C).

"Through ModelServer Integrator and its support of XML, it is possible to first process a very unstructured 'world' of diverse enterprise information based on business rules unique to an enterprise, and then create a structured view of that information that is tailored to the needs of the end user," said A. B. "Buddy" Cleveland, senior vice president of Bentley's ModelEngineering Business Group. "By providing the view of the enterprise in an XML-compatible form, engineering organizations can take full advantage of the many present and forthcoming industry-standard tools to present and query the structured information."

ModelServer Integrator, with support for XML, will be available in the fourth quarter of 1999.

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a worldwide leader in aecXML-ready, project-oriented engineering software. The Bentley ContinuumSM is the company's project engineering strategy comprising products, services, and strategic affiliations. The company serves more than 300,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, geoengineering, and manufacturing engineering. With annual revenues of over $175 million, Bentley is the number two software provider in the worldwide architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C) market, according to Daratech, and is the world's largest software company primarily dedicated to A/E/C.

Bentley's MicroStationr and ModelServer engineering products are essential to successful projects at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms, and the owners of their engineered assets. Bentley is the leader in project engineering, providing engineering information management, management of change, and engineering transaction management through its ProjectBankT technology and ProjectWiseT products. Bentley's software is sold and implemented through Bentley Integrators and MVARs, on a one-to-one basis for user organizations that create and operate the world's infrastructure, including landmark buildings, roadways, manufacturing facilities, and utility and telecommunications networks. The Bentley SELECTSM subscription program now reaches more than 200,000 users.