Bentley Systems, a leading company providing software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, is set to launch its new OpenUtilities product line that will extend the capabilities of its utilities designer to the company’s sisNET user base in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Capabilities unique to the sisNET product line will also be included along with the functionality of WaterCAD and SewerCAD to support typical distribution designs, said a statement from Bentley.

The OpenUtilities product line consists of three offerings - Map, Designer and PowerView, it stated.

OpenUtilities Map is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) for multi-utilities, while  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 visualisation and editing tool suitable for all utilities,

Daniel Steinhilber, GIS administrator/quality assurance lead, wesernetz Bremen, 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," he noted.

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, said the company statement.

Water and wastewater utilities will benefit from the incorporation of the hydraulics and hydrology modelling capabilities of Bentley’s WaterCAD and SewerCAD, it added.-TradeArabia News Service