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Bentley Systems, Microsoft join hands for smart city urban planning
Oct 21, 2020 12:07 PM
Bentley Systems a leader in engineering software for professionals to design build operate and maintain critical infrastructure such as road and rail networks and public works and utilities will collaborate...
Bentley Systems, a leader in engineering software for professionals to design, build, operate and maintain critical infrastructure such as road and rail networks, and public works and utilities, will collaborate Microsoft to develop new smart city solutions.
The alliance will see the combination of Microsoft’s Azure IoT Digital Twins and Azure Maps with Bentley Systems’ iTwins platform, enable engineers, architects, constructors and city planners to work within a comprehensive city-scale digital twin, empowering better decision-making, optimizing operational efficiency, reducing costs and improving collaboration.
The companies will explore opportunities for digital twins in urban planning and citizen engagement for cities around the world.
The collaboration will enable improved decision-making and increased productivity through Microsoft Teams for infrastructure engineers.
"At Bentley we believe that infrastructure digital twins can empower engineers, constructors and owner-operators to design, build and operate infrastructure assets that are more cost-effective, more resilient and more sustainable," remarked its CEO Greg Bentley.
"With Azure as the foundation of our cloud services, our offerings are more broadly scaled and differentiated by the further integrations of Microsoft technologies. We are excited to extend our partnership to bring new digital twin advances to infrastructure engineering organizations and their constituents," he stated.
Casey McGee, vice president Partner Development, US One Commercial Partner, Microsoft, said: With Azure IoT, Azure Digital Twins and Bentley’s iTwins platform, the world’s infrastructure — vital to our economies and environment — stands to gain so much by enabling people to create comprehensive digital models of an entire environment."
“Our expanded strategic alliance with Bentley Systems opens up new opportunities for innovation and will accelerate the benefits of digital twins for infrastructure engineering organizations and, more broadly, society at large,” he added.