IRIDE Energia, part of the IRIDE Group, is one of the main Italian multi-utilities comprising companies that manage water, electricity, public lighting, gas and district heating networks.

In 2006 the company began developing a new GIS, with an objective to achieve a minimum increase in productivity of 20% across many functions such as planning, engineering design, field engineering and customer service, all of whom use the new system.

The new system is built around Bentley’s V8 XM Edition products, all of which are XML Feature Modeling (XFM) enabled. The system utilizes Bentley Map™ for map management, engineering design and data update processes. The Bentley® Geospatial Server™ supports a number of functions including enterprise access to Oracle Spatial, workflow management, enterprise printing/plotting/publishing, and engineering doc umentation management across a distributed enterprise. In addition, IRIDE Energia uses Bentley Geo Web Publisher™ for publishing GIS and engineering information to the company’s Intranet.