The geospatial managed environment
Custers, Oscar
Bentley has been involved in the geospatial world since the early days. Especially in the data creation stage MicroStation as graphical platform has always played indeed: is still playing -- an important role. Thousands of organizations across the globe use Bentley products to create, manage and publish CAD en GIS data. For the last couple of years, Bentley Geospatial has been working on evolving its products and solution portfolio from workstation oriented products to an enterprise-wide architecture called the Geospatial Managed Environment. The Geospatial Managed Environment is Bentleyys response to an ever growing demand for data accuracy and quality. It is a multi-tier architecture combining flexibility on the Desktop using XML Feature Modelingg with a server-driven controlled environment ProjectWise connected to enterprise data stores like Oracle Spatial databases. Adding Oracle connectivity was crucial milestone for Bentley in designing the managed environment architecture. For many, Oracle Spatial is the de facto standard for enterprise geospatial data stores. The Geospatial Managed Environment now offers a multi-user, scalable gateway to Oracle with true semantic interoperability. This way, Bentley positions itself as the natural partner for data accuracy and quality within Oracle Spatial data stores. By avoiding the pitfall of adding its own idiosyncratic ways of dealing with data, the solution instead concentrates on faithfully reproducing what is in the data store. In short: it plays by Oraclees rules, without cheating. Delivering true Oracle Bentley interoperability is the result of years of cumulative investment. As one of the first to identify the potential of the Oracle platform, Bentley is again breaking new grounds by evolving from a two-tier to a multi-tier architecture. It believes this to be a necessary step to tackle current and future demands in the Geospatial world.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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