奔特力工程软件系统有限公司（Bentley Systems, Incorporated）今天宣布，奔特力收购了ECT国际公司（ECT International, Inc.）的全球业务。ECT国际公司是电气控制系统高级计算机辅助工程设计工具的领先提供商。该公司的旗舰产品线promis*e包含使用方便的智能软件，这种软件能生成电气系统原理图和支持文档，使电气设计的时间缩短30%以上。该软件的内容储存库非常全面，含有200多万最新的元器件，因此，该软件结合MicroStation、MicroStation PowerDraft或AutoCAD使用时，可使电气设计过程更加精确。使用promis*e进行设计的各类原始设备制造商、电气系统集成商、设计/采购/施工（EPC）总承包商、电气系统元件供应商和厂商、设施业主企业之中包括：ABB公司、宝洁公司、伊顿公司（Eaton）、Solar Turbines公司、杜克能源公司（Duke Energy）、长岛铁路公司（Long Island Rail Road）、西门子公司。提供数据库内容的合作公司包括：罗克韦尔自动化公司、施耐德电气公司、美国泛达公司（Panduit）、Hoffman公司等。奔特力公司为过程装置、工厂、发电、电力事业、铁路与运输等提供完备的电气系统设计与运营软件产品组合，收购promis*e有效补充并进一步扩大了这一组合。

有了promis*e，奔特力公司就能更好地应对建筑工程、工厂设计、土木工程和地理信息基础设施领域的专业人士对包含电气接线、图表和出图（drawing production）功能在内的更全面的解决方案的需求增长。此外，promis*e把一些行业解决方案提供商带到奔特力公司，使奔特力在一个对于基础设施的创建日益重要的厂商群体内做出更大贡献。这些供应商在为现场装配而设计、配置、制造更大规模的模块的时候，承担了越来越多的项目设计工作，取代了传统的分段式规范和施工。这样一来，他们能够帮助业主运营商和EPC总承包商克服专业人员、原材料和技术资源的短缺。

奔特力公司软件业务高级副总裁Bhupinder Singh评价奔特力的这个最新收购项目时说，“实现电气控制系统设计的自动化能够产生重要的功效，有助于提高专业人员的生产率。不过尤为重要的是，奔特力的用户企业一直想让自动化的电气设计在基础设施整个生命周期与其他学科和工作流全面地集成。他们知道，这样的技术进步会成倍的提高生产率。

奔特力公司收购promis*e之后，就能推出他们一直在寻求的解决方案。利用此次收购，奔特力可以将promis*e的功能和庞大的内容储存库整合到我们为各类、各学科领域的基础设施提供的全面产品组合之中。总而言之，用户将从精简的控制系统设计工作流的内部协作之中受益，这样的协作是通过一个智能信息模型实现的。这样一来，工作效率和准确性都可以提高，从而降低了设计和施工的成本，缩短了交付使用的时间，缩减了运营成本和维护成本，使系统的持续修改更加方便，而所有这些将改善可持续基础设施的创建。”

ECT公司创始人，奔特力公司现任副总裁Art Sawall说，“，想到要与奔特力公司的员工成为同事，并且将能够把精深、广阔的奔特力完备的软件和服务产品组合带给我们的用户，整个ECT团队都感到非常振奋。双方有共同的愿景，一致认为开放式数据模型是实现互操作性，为用户创造最大价值的关键所在。这样的基础为重大的创新搭建了舞台，而这种创新单靠一方是无法完成的。”

奔特力公司负责工厂、建筑和结构开发业务的副总裁Rob Whitesell补充说，“此次收购对于工厂业主和建造商是特别的好消息。去年，奔特力公司推出了前所未有的解决方案，涵盖了从概念设计到详细工程设计再到生命周期数据管理的内部协作。由于这项突破，用户可以从双向的工作流之中受益，利用这种工作流，从模拟到流程和仪表图，到成本上接近最优的仪表和管路布局，再到管路压力分析，进行全面的互动式循环。收购promis*e让我们很快就能够为这个工作流电气控制系统设计添加新的功能——利用promis*e的智能数据库为图纸上的元器件的估算提供支持。此次收购为那些使用我们的产品组合中其他学科领域的应用软件的仪表和电气工程师提供自动化功能，从而扩大我们对实现全面的内部协作的承诺。”

奔特力公司是在Daratech公司的工厂设计制图市场排名之中领先的企业，也是集成型内部协作FEED工作流领域的领先企业；公司将在本周举行的daratechPLANT2008大会上结合MicroStation PowerDraft展示promis*e的最新配置。此外，公司还将展示promis*e和奔特力的工厂设计应用软件借助ISO 15926开放式数据标准实现的互操作性，并探讨promis*e与奔特力最新推出的OpenPlant产品系列的集成计划。

关于promis*e

promis*e是一款智能软件应用产品，能够利用电子数据表来生成电气系统原理图和支持文档，例如布置图、材料清单、接线表、端子图、拉线表（cable pull list）和互联图。promis*e结合MicroStation、MicroStation PowerDraft或AutoCAD使用，或者在独立环境中使用时，可将图纸文件连接到SQL和Oracle数据库，从而提高控制系统设计和文档处理工作流的生产率。promis*e的内容储存库非常全面，包含200多万最新的元器件符号。

promis*e全面支持IEC/DIN和ANSI/IEEE/JIC电气图纸页面格式及符号格式。新增加了液压、气动和过程控制系统的符号库，以及领先元器件生产商的零件数据库。对话框和菜单可配置成汉语、英语、法语、德语、意大利语、西班牙语等语言。

如需了解奔特力promis*e的详细情况，请访问：www.bentley.com/promis*e。

关于奔特力公司

奔特力工程软件系统有限公司提供用于全球基础设施领域各个环节的软件。公司为建筑、工厂、土木和地理信息垂直市场提供综合性解决方案，涵盖AEC和营运等各个方面。公司年收入现已超过4亿美元，全球已有2400多名员工，是为《工程新闻记录》评出的一流设计企业以及各大业主运营商提供AEC软件的领先供应商，在Daratech公司一项研究中被评为全球第二大GIS/地理信息软件解决方案供应商。

如需即时获得奔特力公司新闻，请访问 www.bentley.com/bentleywire。如需了解更多信息，请访问：www.bentley.com。如需在线查看奔特力公司2007年4月发布的年度报告副本，请访问：www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport。

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( BW)(TX-BENTLEY-SYSTEMS) Bentley Acquires promis*e Product Line to Further Extend Electrical System Design Portfolio

    Software Addresses Need to Automate and Improve Productivity of Control System Design and Documentation Workflows

    Business Editors/Technology Editors
    daratechPLANT2008

    HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2008--Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has acquired the global business of ECT International, Inc., the leading provider of advanced computer-aided engineering design tools for electrical control systems. The company's flagship product line, promis*e, comprises intelligent, easy-to-use software that generates electrical system schematics and supporting documentation, reducing electrical design time by more than 30 percent. The software, in combination with MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, or AutoCAD, also makes the electrical design process more accurate by virtue of more than 2 million up-to-date parts in its uniquely comprehensive content repository. Among the diversity of original equipment manufacturers, electrical systems integrators, engineering/procurement/construction (EPC) firms, suppliers and vendors of electrical system components, and facility owners designing with promis*e are ABB, Procter & Gamble, Eaton, Solar Turbines, Duke Energy, Long Island Rail Road, and Siemens. Partner companies providing database content include Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Panduit, and Hoffman, among others. The acquisition of promis*e complements and further extends Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of software for the design and operation of electrical systems for process plants, factories, power generation, electric utilities, rail and transit, and more.

    With promis*e, Bentley will be better able to respond to a growing need among building, plant, civil, and geospatial infrastructure professionals for more comprehensive solutions incorporating electrical wiring, diagramming, and drawing production. In addition, promis*e adds to Bentley's contributions within a vendor category of rapidly growing significance for infrastructure creation – industrial solution suppliers. These suppliers are assuming more and more of the engineering on projects as they design, configure, and fabricate modules of larger scope for assembly on site, superseding traditional piecewise specification and construction. By doing so, they help owner-operators and EPC firms overcome professional, materials, and crafts resource shortages.

    Commenting on this latest Bentley acquisition, Bhupinder Singh, senior vice president, Bentley Software, said, "Automating the design of electrical control systems results in important efficiencies, leading to increased professional productivity. But especially, Bentley user organizations have wanted automated electrical design to be fully integrated with other disciplines and workflows across the infrastructure lifecycle. They know that this advancement would multiply, many times over, their productivity improvements.

    "Bentley's acquisition of promis*e will result in the solution they've been looking for. It will enable Bentley to integrate promis*e's functionality and extensive content repository with our comprehensive portfolio for infrastructure facility types and disciplines. So finally, users will benefit from streamlined control system design workflows intra-operating by way of an intelligent information model. This will provide increased efficiencies and accuracies that cut design and construction costs, shave time from delivery schedules, reduce operations and maintenance costs, and make it easier to implement ongoing system modifications - all of which enhance the creation of sustainable infrastructure."

    Said Art Sawall, founder of ECT and now Bentley vice president, "The entire ECT team is excited about becoming Bentley colleagues and being able to offer our users the tremendous depth and reach of Bentley's comprehensive portfolio of software and services. Our two organizations share the common vision that open data models are the key to achieving interoperability and maximum value for users. That foundation sets the stage for significant innovations that could not be accomplished separately."

    Added Rob Whitesell, vice president, Bentley Plant, Building, and Structural development, "This acquisition is particularly auspicious for plant owner and creators. Last year, Bentley unveiled solutions that unprecedentedly span intra-operating from conceptual design through detailed engineering to lifecycle data management. With this breakthrough, users benefit from bidirectional workflows that allow them to iterate from simulation to process and instrumentation diagrams, to economically near-optimum instrumentation and pipe routing, to pipe stress analysis, all interactively. Our acquisition of promis*e enables us to soon add to this workflow electrical control system design - supporting drawing takeoffs from the promis*e intelligent database. This will extend our commitment to comprehensive intra-operations by providing automation for instrumentation and electrical engineers that works with the other discipline applications in our portfolio."

    Bentley, the leader in Daratech's plant schematics market rankings and in integrated, intra-operating FEED workflows, will showcase at daratechPLANT2008 this week the latest promis*e configuration, with MicroStation PowerDraft. In addition, it will demonstrate interoperability between promis*e and Bentley's plant applications through the open ISO 15926 data standard, and will discuss plans for integrating promis*e with Bentley's newly announced OpenPlant product range.

    About promis*e

    promis*e is an intelligent software application that generates electrical system schematics from spreadsheets and supporting
documentation such as panel layouts, bills of material, wire lists, terminal plans, cable pull lists, and interconnect diagrams. Combined with MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, or AutoCAD, or in a stand-alone environment, promis*e links drawing files to SQL and Oracle databases to improve the productivity of control system design and documentation workflows. It incorporates more than 2 million parts in its uniquely comprehensive and current content repository.

    promis*e fully supports both IEC/DIN and ANSI/IEEE/JIC page and symbol formats for electrical drawings. Additional symbol libraries are available for hydraulic, pneumatic and process control systems, as are parts databases from leading component manufacturers. Dialogs and menus can be configured for languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

    For more information about Bentley's promis*e, visit www.bentley.com/promis*e.

    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 AEC and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.

    To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. To view a copy of Bentley's April 2007 Annual Report online, go to www.bentley.com/April2007annualreport.

    Bentley, the "B" logo, MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft, OpenPlant, and promis*e are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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