Having grown from three MicroStation licenses purchased in 1993, Bentley technology is now the Council’s corporate standard. MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics, and Bentley GeoOutlook are being used in every department requiring a CAD or mapping-based solution to cut costs and save time. In one case, a project’s timeline was cut from four years down to just four months.

Located in the northwest of England, between the city of Manchester and the Yorkshire Moors, Oldham was one of the world’s leading cotton spinning towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, Oldham is a thriving cultural and business centre that’s home to more than 210,000 people, and Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (Oldham MBC) provides a wide range of services to its citizens.

In an effort to streamline the delivery of these services and increase efficiency among its departments, Oldham MBC sought an integrated solution to create a seamless data flow of property-related information. All departments can now access each other’s information through a single, common graphical interface, whether it be a map and associated attribution data created by Land and Property, a road design scheme created by Highways, a building plan created by Architects or a school design scheme created by Education.

Bentley’s products—from creation tools to back office data management, integration to publishing solutions—also aid the Borough in meeting their e-Government strategy of an integrated property data model.