Bentley Systems Inc. has announced V8i, a comprehensive software portfolio for infrastructure. Encompassing products for all of the solution communities served by Bentley, the V8i portfolio leverages and extends core capabilities of its new interoperability platform to provide the breadth and depth of technology needed for fully integrated project delivery.
V8i’s interoperability platform enables Bentley applications to persist, share and visualize infrastructure asset data in a common way, promoting collaborative workflows. The result is a project environment that combines flexibility, scalability and robustness, and a portfolio that offers engineers, architects, GIS professionals, constructors and owner-operators unprecedented choices across discipline-specific integrated software and services incorporated in Bentley solutions. Developed as a collective whole, the V8i software portfolio facilitates streamlined workflows among multiple disciplines and across project teams throughout the infrastructure life cycle.
The benefits of the software include increased information quality, enhanced infrastructure asset quality, improved operational safety, reduced project costs and shortened delivery times. Among the many innovative core capabilities of V8i are intuitive design modeling, interactive dynamic views, intrinsic geo-coordination and incredible project performance.
“We are confident that the release of V8i, which began today and will be completed over the next 60 days, will introduce significant innovation and workflow improvements that set new benchmarks for infrastructure professions in virtually every discipline,” said Keith Bentley, the company's chief technology officer.
“Our virtually concurrent release of this comprehensive portfolio of products is, by any measure in the software industry, an ambitious undertaking," said Chief Executive Officer Greg Bentley. "Its timeliness is underscored by the importance of the challenges met by our users as they strive to sustain the world’s infrastructure and address such critical issues as aging bridges, water system losses, energy and commodity supply, building efficiency and environmental resilience.”
“We have developed V8i with these pivotal needs in mind, including the most critical challenge--the global shortfall in engineering resources in relation to infrastructure requirements," he continued. "Moving emphatically beyond merely computer-aiding the production of traditional ‘deliverables,’ including design, drawings and models, our mandate for the V8i portfolio has been to provide our users with the capabilities they need to increase their cost-efficiencies and maximize the return on their investments in innovation--empowering them to design, build and operate better-performing infrastructure projects and assets.”
