computer software . 1 founded 1984 ; 32 years ago 1984 exton pennsylvania headquarters exton pennsylvania key people greg bentley ceo keith a. bentley co founder barry j. bentley co founder raymond b. bentley co founder products see below . revenue 625 million usd 2014 number of employees 3000 2 website www.bentley.com bentley systems incorporated is an american multinational software development company that develops manufactures licenses supports and sells computer software and services for the design construction and operation of infrastructure . the company s software serves the building plant civil and geospatial markets in the areas of architecture engineering construction aec and operations . their software solutions are used to design engineer build and operate large constructed assets such as roadways railways bridges buildings industrial plants power plants and utility networks . the company actively re invests 20 % of their revenues in research and development 3 bentley systems is headquartered in exton pennsylvania united states but has development sales and other departments in over 50 countries around the world . the company had revenues of 625 million in 2014 . 4 5 contents 1 software 2 history 3 corporate acquisitions 4 bentley institute press 5 bentley infrastructure 500 5.1 2014 list 6 references 7 external links software edit bentley has three principal software solutions microstation projectwise and assetwise . microstation is a desktop 2d 3d cad platform upon which bentley and third party software vendors build more specific solutions . for example bentley map is an extension from bentley that runs on top of microstation adding gis and spatial capabilities to the cad program . projectwise is a project information management and cloud collaboration aeco solution for sharing project information . assetwise is bentley s project risk management aeco solution to determine how safe are infrastructure assets such as bridges roads power plants offshore platforms and so on . bentley is a provider of building information modeling bim solutions for the architecture civil structural and mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines . bentley also provides generativecomponents a parametric modeling solution used primarily by architects and engineers in building design . apart from desktop applications bentley also has a few server applications . the most prominent application created is a project information management and cloud collaboration aeco solution called projectwise . in 2014 bentley announced the connect edition 6 of its products which is built on the microsoft azure cloud computing platform . 7 bentley published a majority of its products in fall 2008 under the v8i brand . history edit keith a. bentley in conjunction with his brother barry j. bentley founded bentley systems in 1984 . 8 they introduced the commercial version of pseudostation in 1985 which allowed users of intergraph s vax systems to use low cost graphics terminals to view and modify the designs on their intergraph igds interactive graphics design system installations . 9 this greatly expanded access to such designs which could otherwise be accessed only through very expensive special purpose workstations . the product was shown to potential users who were polled as to what they would be willing to pay for it . the bentley brothers then decided to simply average the results thus arriving at a price of 7 943 . 10 the bentley s pseudostation experience convinced them that there was a ready market for a stand alone personal computer based cad system compatible with the intergraph cad file format . at the time the ibm at personal computer based on intel s 80286 microprocessor was just becoming available and their tests showed that it had enough processing power disk speed and graphics capability to do the job . microstation version 1 which allowed users to download files directly from their vax system to their pc to view and plot them a very primitive bentley view was introduced to the market in 1986 11 corporate acquisitions edit on june 18 1997 bentley acquired ideagraphix a developer of microstation based application software for architecture engineering and facilities management to provide more comprehensive aec solutions to customers . 12 on january 15 1998 bentley acquired jacobus and strengthens commitment to plant engineering and design industry . 13 on january 2 2001 bentley acquired intergraph s civil engineering plot services and raster conversion software businesses . 14 on october 17 2001 bentley systems buys geopak design software for road and rail infrastructure . 15 on july 30 2002 bentley systems acquired rebis to bring interoperable plant design to its users . 16 on january 6 2003 bentley to acquire infrasoft corporation ; software and services company specializes in infrastructure solutions for civil engineering 17 on august 2 2004 bentley acquires haestad methods inc. an international provider of water resources solutions . 18 on august 31 2005 bentley agrees to acquire netguru s research engineers international rei business which includes staad structural analysis and design product line . 19 on june 6 2006 bentley acquires gef ris ag known for providing solutions used in the design and management of multi utility infrastructure . 20 on january 29 2007 bentley acquires kiwi software to deliver complete structural workflow solution 21 on may 12 2007 bentley acquires c.w. beilfuss & associates to deliver enhanced solutions and hosted services for oversize overweight and hazardous material truck permits 22 on may 9 2007 bentley acquires tdv gmbh analysis and design software provider for bridge engineering 23 on january 22 2008 bentley acquires hevacomp ltd. expanding portfolio of software to improve performance of buildings 24 on january 24 2008 bentley acquires leap software inc. expanding portfolio of software for analysis and design of concrete bridges 25 on january 29 2008 bentley acquires promis e product line from ect international s global business . 26 on may 28 2008 bentley systems buys common point to mainstream construction simulation . 27 on october 13 2009 bentley adds geotechnical and geoenvironmental capabilities through acquisition of gint software . 28 on february 9 2010 bentley systems announces two significant acquisitions exor corporation and enterprise informatics to launch its assetwise initiative for owner operators . 29 on march 2 2011 bentley systems acquires sacs . software for offshore structural analysis from engineering dynamics inc. 30 on december 10 2011 bentley acquires formsys to expand sacs offerings for floating structures . 31 on november 8 2011 bentley acquires pointools ltd. an england developer of point cloud software technology . 32 on march 7 2014 bentley acquires elcosystem software business of hannappel software 33 on may 18 2012 bentley acquires inspecttech systems usa a provider of field inspection applications and asset management services for bridges and other transportation assets 34 on september 19 2012 bentley acquires canadian based ivara 35 on november 12 2012 bentley acquires microprotol pressure vessel design and analysis software from euresearch . 36 on november 13 2012 bentley acquires specwave to bring enterprise level information management for specification services spanning project and asset lifecycles . 37 on march 14 2013 bentley acquires topograph a leader in surveying software 38 on october 8 2013 bentley acquires moses software business from ultramarine 39 on februray 25 2014 bentley acquires docqnet systems eb services bizdocqnet systems 40 on september 26 2014 bentley acquired siteops optimization software for enhanced land development site design from blueridge analytics . 41 on january 14 2015 bentley acquired c3global for predictive modeling . 42 on february 10 2015 bentley acquires acute3d to extend reality modeling portfolio . 43 on february 15 2015 bentley acquires reality modeling creator e on . 44 bentley institute press edit bentley systems also is a publisher of textbooks and professional references for the architectural engineering and construction aec operations geospatial and educational communities under the name bentley institute press 45 46 bentley infrastructure 500 edit main article bentley infrastructure 500 since 2010 bentley has created a worldwide ranking of the top owners of infrastructure around the world from both the public and private sectors that is published annually . 47 according to bentley the sum of all the infrastructure assets in the hands of these companies add up to us 16.7 trillion which is close to the annual gdp of the u.s. . 2014 list edit rank organization headquarters country infrastructure value millions usd 1 federal government of the united states united states 360 900 2 gazprom russia 248 401 3 exxonmobil united states 243 650 4 petrobras brazil 227 433 5 royal dutch shell netherlands 191 897 6 china national petroleum corporation china 190 424 7 highways agency united kingdom 185 875 8 lectricit de france edf france 172 839 9 chevron united states 164 829 10 rosneft russia 162 852 infrastructure value above as measured by reported net tangible fixed assets . 48 references edit company profile from hoover s bentley systems incorporated company profile from hoover s accessdate september 12 2016 exton s bentley systems buys oregon animation software company www.philly.com philly business 20150915 exton s bentley systems buys oregon animation software company.html accessdate september 14 2016 http www.bentleyannualreport digital.com bentleyannualreport annual report 2014 search term revenue & doc id 1 & search term revenue & pg 4 pg4 2014 bentley systems annual report http www.bentleyannualreport digital.com bentleyannualreport annual report 2014 search term revenue & doc id 1 & search term revenue & pg 4 pg4 2014 bentley systems annual report randall newton 18 may 2015 . 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jacobus and strengthens commitment to plant engineering and design industry ; sales of plantspace software show impressive growth in 1997 . free online library accessdate august 18 2016 bentley s acquires intergraph s civil engineering plot services and raster conversion software businesses bentley s acquires intergraph s civil engineering plot services and raster conversion software businesses accessdate august 18 2016 philadelphia business journal www.bizjournals.com philadelphia stories 2001 10 15 daily25.html accessdate august 18 2016 software equity group s client rebis acquired by bentley systems software equity group s client rebis acquired by bentley systems accessdate august 18 2016 free online library bentley to acquire infrasoft corporation ; software and services company specializes in infrastructure solutions for civil engineering . free online library accessdate august 18 2016 business wire www.businesswire.com news home 20040802005686 en bentley acquires haestad methods 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