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Dear Readers, “We need to take out the information hidden behind various technical jargon”. Yesterday, Barbara J Ryan had cited so, in the geospatial session in the afternoon. What she tried to portray were translations of the technical ‘tools and jargon—display’ onto real life cases and deliverables that help in serving the nation and its surrounds. This day again had some such amazing case presentations. The technical keynotes in the earlier part of the day aggressively put Bentley’s steadfast vision of empowering its users in the long term and showcased various situations of Bentley usage across the globe. But before I go into the keynotes, let me first mention about the exciting evening before, where the BE 2004 Awards were handed out to 21 agencies moving towards geospatial excellence over of the 163 nominees. In brief, the days here surely portray, a focused and dedicated group with a mission to address, empower and solve problems of our day to day functioning in minimum possible platforms and tools. Welcome to the second and final part of the Live Report of BE 2004 Conference from Florida. Regards, Ayon Tarafdar, Assistant Editor, GIS Development ayon@gisdevelopment.net BE Awards 2004 Amidst the celebrations and reception in the evening, Bentley Systems, announced the winners of the BE Awards of Excellence that honours ‘Bentley users and their extraordinary works improving the world’s infrastructure’. Twenty-one projects received BE Awards in the evening in Orlando, Florida. These projects were supposed to be chosen by the jury because they have set benchmarks for their industries and ‘they showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations’ that created them. The winners were announced during the dinner hosted by Alan Farkas of Farkas Berkowitz & Company, a Washington-based management consulting firm specializing in infrastructure. The BE Awards jurors, which included accomplished Bentley users and industry experts, selected the winning projects from more than 160 nominees. For a full list of the 164 nominees and for more information on the conference, visit http://www.be.org/ “Bentley is proud to recognize the critical role our users play in creating and maintaining the infrastructure of the world, thereby supporting all human endeavors,” said Greg Bentley, CEO. “The skill, innovation, and leadership demonstrated by the BE Award winners, and by all the nominees, raises the standard for all of us who are dedicated to improving the world’s infrastructure.” The winners of the BE Awards of Excellence Plant: Technology Keynote Tuesday started off with a great keynote session that supposedly gave in-depth glimpses of Bentley’s ‘edge’ over its similar products. Forward looking and definitely captivating speeches coupled with audio-visuals from three main Bentley personnel summed up this keynote session that had about 1500 attendees in the grand Pacific Hall of the World Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort. “Microstation can support all your needs!” : Bhupinder Singh (Vice President, Platform Products, Bentley) Bhupinder made an elaborate speech that touched on various technical updates of Bentley products as a whole, while keeping his speech at the conceptual level primarily. He mentioned in detail about Microstation V8 and took up its 4 extensions individually and elaborated on their updates – “Don’t settle for anything less than DGNV8!” : Keith Bentley (Director and Chief Technical Officer, Bentley) Keith Bentley spoke for about 45 minutes enthralling the 1500+ crowd with his dynamic style and interspaced humour. He traced back the twenty years of Bentley since 1984 on a number of counts. He compared the evolution and growth of various facets of the IT industry and the geospatial domain in the last 20 years and brought the role of Bentley into it. In 20 years, Bentley has risen quite a bit. In 1984, it was started by 4 people. By 1994, it had 200 colleagues and 25 million USD businesses. By 1999, it grew to a 950 strong enterprise with over 100 million USD business. Today it stands as a 1500 person united organization with over 260 million USD in its flow. Keith compared the workstation industry in general over the last 20 years in terms of its capacity, performance, cost and networking ability trying to derive a pattern of magnanimous growth in general. He then finally compared the growth and evolution of Microstation in the last 20 years. He stated that the launch of Microstation Version 4 in 1991 was revolutionary in the evolution of Microstation. Similarly, he stated that the Version 8 (2002) is also a generational change. Bentley’s DNA over the 20 years has been, as per Keith : In his concluding section he spoke of DWG Vs DGN. This he termed as a comparison not even close. He went on to give 10 reasons for stating so. These ten reasons revolved around the following ‘edge’ functionalities of DGN:
Objectives of standardization: Alton made a short and precise speech, which reaffirmed what users, investors and every geospatial and AEC community person can expect from Bentley in the longer run. He mentioned on three key areas, which drive Bentley and its work – A) Listen: Everyone can expect Bentley to listen to him or her. It remains dedicated to utilize feedback from its users and promises them about ‘what next’. B) Innovate: Everyone can expect Bentley to innovate. Constantly it drives its forces and expertise to create newer dimensions of tools and platforms that can leverage our problems and areas of growth. C) Deliver: Everyone can expect Bentley to deliver. Deliver in time, quantity and quality. The tech keynote was also interspaced with visual presentations from Patrick P Gilsinger of Intel and from Microsoft , who mentioned of their commitment and ease to work with Bentley for mutual gains and the AEC community at large. Intel also spoke of the 3DIF, which is on the cards and presently under R&D in collaboration with industry leaders. 3DIF is an industry forum to set a new set of standards for any 3D work of the future. Guest Speaker – Barbara J Ryan Barbara J Ryan, Associate Director for Geography, United States Geological Society (USGS) had given a speech of high significance, the day before, in the geospatial session. In brief she reminded most of us that tools are important, but so are the application of these tools finally into deliverable results. If tools are there in the market and its use still remains limited, there is a situation of concern yet. She spoke at length of the National Map agenda of the US and gave numerous examples of how the National Map program is a support to various services of the nation. She also stated that the application of these map data wouldn’t have been possible without the tools required and available in the industry. “Partnering with anyone in need and anyone ready to contribute is empowering people geospatially…” Bentley Geospatial Agenda Around 700 attendees gathered in parallel all over second half of Tuesday as the geospatial sessions simultaneously kicked off in two distinct wings. The Geospatial track provided professionals with insight into the tools to design, build and manage towns, cities, and the infrastructure that supports them taking cases from across the globe. The last two days had and tomorrow has Focused User Seminar Tracks on various critical areas of workflows as - Similarly there were four other agenda and tracks running parallel as highlighted below – The Building Track This track focused on how to leverage Bentley building information modeling (BIM) to capture essential building concepts and information beyond drawings, as well as provide a managed environment for building projects and operations. The Civil Track The Civil track gave an inside look at Bentley's full range of infrastructure life cycle solutions, from the design capabilities of GEOPAK, InRoads and MX, to operations and management solutions for truck permitting, right-of-way management and transportation data management. The Plant Track The Plant track was for owner/operators and EPCs looking to optimize competitive advantage, reduce cycle time, enable increased reliability and facilitate maximum uptime. The MicroStation/ProjectWise Track This track highlighted Bentley's collaborative solutions for design and engineering professionals. Learn how to best take advantage of MicroStation and Bentley's servers as a unifying platform for your existing AEC and enterprise systems, leveraging wider and easier access to AEC content through secure distribution. Technology Exhibition 32 exhibitors displayed their products and services along with the four main sponsors of the event as enlisted below. The exhibition area saw quite an amount of interaction and activity as the 1500+ crowd thronged the area during the timeslots kept specifically for the exhibition. Sponsors |
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