Benefits From Ability to Provide Improved Services to City’s 48,000 Citizens
Exton, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the city of Franklin, Tennessee, has joined Bentley’s Municipal License Subscription (MLS) program.
Bentley’s MLS offers municipalities all the software they need to design and manage all their infrastructure for a fixed annual fee based on population. The breakthrough program enables them to improve productivity and reduce administrative costs by outfitting their entire mapping and engineering organizations with fully integrated software for GIS and engineering workflows. This leads to improved services and more efficient government.
Franklin, a fast-growing city in Tennessee just south of Nashville, serves a population of 48,000. The city uses Bentley’s WaterGEMS water modeling product in its engineering and water departments and is expanding its use of WaterGEMS through Bentley’s MLS. In addition, in the near future, Franklin will deploy MicroStation, StormCAD, and Bentley Fiber – with other Bentley software to follow.
Said Mike Proctor, IT manager for Franklin, “A key benefit of our new MLS is the ability to provide improved services to our citizens. Take, for example, water and wastewater services, which are always a challenge in cities experiencing rapid population growth. Our expanded use of WaterGEMS will enhance our ability to continually remodel our water network to account for the city’s many new subdivisions and, thus, maintain the required capacities.
“In terms of our internal organization, the biggest benefits of the MLS will result from our ability to share data more effectively across departments and to quickly and easily access a wide array of software to support our infrastructure projects. For starters, our use of MicroStation will enable us to more effectively collaborate with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which also relies on MicroStation for many of its projects. And our adoption of Bentley Fiber will allow us to better manage the city’s 60 miles of fiber optic cabling, currently being managed using paper documentation.”
Bentley’s MLS program provides municipalities with unlimited access to a comprehensive portfolio of integrated GIS and engineering software for all of their infrastructure, including:
- Public works – roads, bridges, water, sewer, and storm
- Land development
- E-government
- Light rail design
- Community broadband
- Water and wastewater treatment plant design
- Urban planning
- Cadastre management
- Public safety
- Municipal building design
- Mapping and 3D modeling
Because the program’s fee is fixed, Bentley’s MLS guarantees predictable software costs and budgeting. In addition, it removes the administrative burden of complex software licenses, shortens procurement cycles, speeds project starts, and ultimately leads to more efficient government.
For more information about Bentley’s MLS program initiative and software or to contact a Bentley representative, visit www.bentley.com/MLS.
About Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin, Tennessee, is a special community. With few exceptions, residents believe that the city offers a high quality of life, and they rate this aspect as the most important factor affecting their decision to live in the community. Franklin has gained national recognition for its downtown revitalization and for devising impact fee strategies for new development.
Franklin’s population doubled in the 1990s and is currently about 48,000. Its population is expected to double again over the next 20 years. In addition to residential growth, Franklin has attracted a significant number of commercial and industrial employers, including many headquarters or regional offices. Numerous factors have fueled Franklin’s growth. The most compelling appear to be the charm and historic small-town character offered by Franklin as one of America’s quintessential small towns. For more information, go to http://www.franklin-gov.com/.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With 2005 revenues of $336 million and more than 2000 colleagues around the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world’s No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
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