TELECOM ITALIA Weaves a Web with Bentley Software

Business Wire, Jan 5, 2000

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

ROME--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2000

Telecommunications giant expands its use of Bentley software, taking advantage of its intranet to distribute cartographic and network data

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Exton, PA) today announced that TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A., Italy's largest, and one of the leading European telecommunications companies, has extended its use of software in the area of IT data distribution using Bentley's ModelServer Discovery(R).

Telecom Italia, already a user of over 2,000 Bentley software licenses, is ending its internal tests of the WebCAD application, which will be put in production at the very beginning of year 2000.

The main goal of this Internet application is to make the graphic and alphanumeric information from Telecom Italia's network available, bringing the advantages of Web technology to about 3,000 users connected now to its intranet.

The use of ModelServer(R) technology has allowed Telecom Italia to deploy, in a short time frame, a very complex application that is fully compatible with its existing MicroStation-based applications. The ability to view such data by taking advantage of the intranet and Web tools will allow Telecom Italia to increase quality and to speed up working procedures.

Also the internal users that do not use CAD or GIS tools will be able to access the data made available to them by the WebCAD application.

More on Telecom Italia S.p.A. (www.telecomitalia.it)

Telecom Group operates predominantly in Italy and its core business is telecommunications services. At the national level, this sector comprises the following activities: fixed telephony, managed by Telecom Italia; mobile telephony, managed by TIM; satellite telecommunications, managed by Telespazio, information technology and innovative network services, managed by Finsiel, Telesoft, Saritel and Sodalia; manufacturing, managed by Italtel; and installations, managed by Sirti.

Seventy percent of Telecom's affiliates are located in Europe, with approximately 25 percent of these located in Latin America and the remainder located throughout the world. Sales and services revenues for the first half of 1999 were 25.382 billion ITL ($12.8 billion USD) with operating Income of 6.308 billion ITL ($3.2 billion USD). The overall number of employees is 125,552.

More on Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated is a worldwide leader in aecXML-ready, project-oriented engineering software. The Bentley Continuum(SM) is the company's project engineering strategy comprising products, services, and strategic affiliations. The company serves more than 300,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, geoengineering, and manufacturing engineering.

With annual revenues of over $175 million, Bentley is the number two software provider in the worldwide architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C) market, according to Daratech, and is the world's largest software company primarily dedicated to A/E/C.

Bentley's MicroStation and ModelServer engineering products are essential to successful projects at over 70 percent of the largest U.S. engineering firms, and the owners of their engineered assets.

Bentley is the leader in project engineering, providing engineering information management, management of change, and engineering transaction management through its ProjectBank(TM) technology and ProjectWise(R) products.

Bentley's software is sold and implemented through Bentley Integrators and MVARs, on a one-to-one basis for user organizations that create and operate the world's infrastructure, including landmark buildings, roadways, manufacturing facilities, and utility and telecommunications networks. The Bentley SELECT(SM) subscription program now reaches more than 200,000 users.

For more information on Bentley, please contact the company at 1-800-BENTLEY, 1 610-458-5000 (Americas), 31 23-556-0560 (Europe, Middle East, Africa), 61 3-9699-8699 (Asia/Pacific), through E-mail at Rachael.Schroeder@Bentley.com or through www.bentley.com.

Bentley, MicroStation, ModelServer, ModelServer Discovery and ProjectWise are registered trademarks; ProjectBank is a trademark; Bentley Continuum and Bentley SELECT are service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or Bentley Software, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.