What Analysts, Technology Partners and Users are Saying
“Bentley’s announcement of its AssetWise initiative to improve infrastructure asset operations is the right move at the right time. In today’s challenging economy, owner-operators, including government organizations, have shifted their focus from new capital projects to improved lifecycle management of existing infrastructure assets. This requires an IT strategy that provides owner-operators the ability to quickly access and visualize complex information related to infrastructure asset operations from multiple sources. At the same time, they must know the data is complete and trustworthy, and be able to easily share it for improved decision making.
“Thanks to its information modeling expertise, knowledge of infrastructure, and commitment to interoperability, dynamic collaboration, and sustaining infrastructure, Bentley is in a unique position to help organizations improve their infrastructure asset operations through information management to achieve a strategic advantage.”
– Andy Chatha, president and founder, ARC Advisory Group
“Organizations that are selecting, are deploying or have deployed asset- oriented MDM solutions for design/construction and operational use cases (building and constructing businesses, as well as operating businesses) should look at technologies [for managing asset-oriented master data for design, construction and operational use cases] for managing well structured master data and highly unstructured content as one across complex, heterogeneous environments. There is a strong business value proposition for managing well-structured master data and highly unstructured content across complex, heterogeneous environments that need to manage the data as one.”
– Andrew White, research vice president, Gartner, and co-author of the Gartner research note “Cool Vendors in Master Data Management, 2009”
“Bentley’s acquisition of Enterprise Informatics makes perfect sense from a business, market, and technology perspective. Enterprise Informatics’ eB, when combined with the rich product portfolio of Bentley’s infrastructure solutions, enables a comprehensive asset information management solution that spans the lifecycle of infrastructure – design, licensing, construction, operations, maintenance, and eventually decommissioning.”
– Martin Gander, associate senior research analyst, Ovum – Butler Group
“As economics pressures existing infrastructure and new build projects, there is an increasing sense of urgency to manage the operation and sustainability of mission-critical infrastructure assets. Bentley Systems is extending its solutions for infrastructure design and build phases through the acquisition of Enterprise Informatics to support its strategic initiative to provide products and solutions for the operation and sustainability of infrastructure assets. Enterprise Informatics’ flagship product, eB, brings enterprise-class technology proven in the nuclear industry for configuration and change management. These solutions fully leverage Microsoft technologies for enterprise scalability, reliability, and collaboration.”
– Jon Arnold, managing director, Worldwide Power & Utilities Industry,
Microsoft Corporation
“We were pleased to learn that Bentley Systems has acquired Enterprise Informatics. Ameren has used both MicroStation and eB for many years, and we rely on both products at different phases of asset development and maintenance. Bentley’s strategic initiative to build a platform to support the management of intelligent asset information for facility operations and maintenance will provide a missing link that we’ve considered creating internally for quite a while.”
– Scott Clardy, Configuration Management supervisor,
AmerenUE Callaway Nuclear Power Plant
“Bentley Systems’ acquisition of Enterprise Informatics places two products we rely on under the umbrella of one strong, forward-thinking company that will support and enhance our software solutions. Having products we already use be optimized by Bentley to support asset management from development through operations and maintenance will save us time and money, and provide solutions that will improve efficiency and ensure information integrity.”
– Thomas Stotlar, supervising engineer, Configuration Management,
AmerenUE Callaway Nuclear Power Plant
“The operation and maintenance of complex infrastructure is dependent on configuration and change management processes and best practices to manage the lifecycle of operational assets. With the acquisition of Enterprise Informatics’ eB, Bentley has added an industry-proven configuration and change management solution to its operations application portfolio that has been certified by the Configuration Management Process Improvement Center (CMPIC) as compliant with the CMPIC configuration management framework.”
– Steve Easterbrook, president, CMPIC LLC
“At the beginning of October 2010, Crossrail successfully launched the first phase of its implementation of the eB Document Control system, covering three large contracts and around 240 users. Eventually we anticipate eB will store, manage, and transmit over 2 million project-critical documents by over 2,000 people, and so far so good. Our users have quickly taken to the new software, impressed not only by its ease of use, but also the significant improvement we have seen against our old transmittal processes, cutting the time taken to complete these from hours to minutes.”
– Malcolm Taylor, Head of Technical Support Services for Crossrail
“With the new release of eB Insight, the market is finally getting what it has been looking for – Asset Lifecycle Information Management software that can address both operational optimization of asset performance and engineering content from modifications and upgrades to existing assets. This puts Bentley in the singular position of being able to improve infrastructure asset operations across the entire lifecycle – delivering Project Information Management through Bentley’s ProjectWise and Asset Information Management for engineering and operations content through AssetWise.”
– Sid Snitkin, vice president and general manager, ARC Advisory Group
“The new major release of eB Insight, one year after the acquisition of Enterprise Informatics, demonstrates that Bentley has successfully integrated the development teams and is executing on its commitment to the AssetWise initiative. The ability to control information visibility with role-based security for large diverse project teams is well suited for asset information management for operations of complex infrastructure projects.”
– Martin Gandar, Associate Senior Research Analyst, Ovum – Butler Group
“By integrating eB into Energy Solutions’ business processes, we have been able to establish a suite of robust systems that support over 5,000 users worldwide, meeting our specific needs for document control, human performance, condition reporting, requirements management, and occupational medicine. As a result of these systems, we have realized marked improvements in quality and efficiency within our records management, document control, and condition reporting processes. In 2011 Energy Solutions will expand deployment of eB Nuclear across three business groups around the globe.”
– Philip Coretti, Vice President, Environmental, Health, Safety, Quality, and Security, Government Group, Energy Solutions