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Media Contact:

Richard Zambuni

Global Marketing Director - Geospatial and Utilities

richard.zambuni@bentley.com

12 November 2012

News Brief

Forthcoming releases ofBentleys WaterCAD

and WaterGEMS V8i (SELECTseries 4)

Bentley will release WaterCAD and WaterGEMS V8i(SELECTseries 4) versions in early 2013.

WaterCAD and WaterGEMSare Bentleys modeling products for the analysis and design of

water distribution systems. They are used by thousands of engineers around the world to

improve the efficiency and reliability of existing networks and develop new networks cost-

effectively.

Effective with the release of SELECTseries 4, operations-related features will be improved for

energy cost and flushing analyses. In addition, a new capability to view hydraulic modeling

results in the control room will be available as a technology preview for SCADAConnectusers

who would like to test it and provide our development team with feedback related to the

specific needs of their respective organizations.

The SCADAConnectmodule for WaterCAD and WaterGEMS already enables users to bring

operational data into hydraulic models to provide the initial/boundary conditions as well as

historical and real-time data to calibrate the model. With the release of the control room

capability, water models will be brought into the control room, increasing information mobility

across utilities engineering and operation departments.

Advance Look at Capabilities and Benefits

The new capabilities and benefits users will get from using the V8i(SELECTseries 4) releases are:

Operations-related capabilities: These features will help users optimize the efficiency ofwater distribution systems, minimizing operational costs and improving emergency

response. Specifically:

o Energy cost improvements will enable users to aggregate energy costs acrosspumping stations and to compute energy costs using complex tariffs. In addition,

non-model-related energy costs will be included. Ultimately, this will help users

minimize energy costs in their systems.

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o Enhanced pipe flushing analysis will allow users to perform flushing studies withmultiple flushing runs and flushing areas, and new flushing reports will be included.

These new reports will show the location of valves and hydrants that field staff need

to operate when

o carrying out their flushing programs. This will help improve users understanding offlushing-related operations.

Improved IT performance: Improved hardware and software performance will improveusers productivity, especially when working on complex models. Specifically:

o The new SQLite database format will solve existing limitations of the MDB format(for example, 2GB maximum file size). In addition, the new file format stores data

more efficiently, decreasing database file size by 50 percent on average.

o An enhanced interface will include new capabilities, such as background layer andelement symbology copy/paste, symbology definition import/export, and property

search to filter element properties. This will improve usability and users

productivity.

o The 64-bit support, already available in WaterCAD and WaterGEMS, to increaseaddressable memory and performance, will also enable users to run WaterCAD for

AutoCAD or WaterGEMS within the 64-bit version of AutoCAD 2013.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial

professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for

sustaining infrastructure. Additional information about Bentley is available atwww.bentley.com

and inBentleys annual report.

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