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Emirate of Sharjah's Directorate of Town Planning and Survey Deploys Bentley's
Cadastral Solution to Streamline Workflows
EXTON, Pa., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Moves to Bentley Geospatial Server for Enterprise GIS and
Bentley Cadastre for Data Editing
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing
comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our
world, today announced that the Emirate of Sharjah, Directorate of Town
Planning and Survey (DTPS), United Arab Emirates, has successfully deployed
Bentley's fully integrated cadastral solution. The solution incorporates an
enterprise geospatial information system (GIS) based on Bentley Geospatial
Server and a computer-aided design (CAD) data editing system based on Bentley
Cadastre. Called the Integrated Land Management Solution (ILMS), the new
system replaces one configured using separate GIS and CAD workflows. Because
data from each workflow was stored in independent silos, DTPS often faced
data inconsistencies between CAD files and the spatial data store, along with
data validation and quality control problems. In addition, the legacy system
failed to provide an enterprise workflow with standardized approval processes
or audit trails, leading to inefficiencies and further quality issues. The
new ILMS overcomes these challenges by integrating DTPS's GIS and CAD
workflows and creating a single spatial data store. As a result, all of the
departments within DTPS now benefit from standardized workflows and approval
processes, high-quality data, and enhanced efficiencies -- enabling them to
better meet the needs of the citizens and organizations they serve within the
emirate.
"Our frustration with the quality of data in our legacy GIS focused our
attention on integrating our GIS and CAD workflows," said Mr. Ahmed Al
Khatib, head of GIS data management, DTPS. "Bentley's ability to provide an
enterprise GIS that works seamlessly with Oracle Spatial met our needs for
standardized workflows, audit trails, security, enterprise printing and
plotting, and more. Moreover, the unique capabilities of Bentley Cadastre as
an editing environment are attractive to any organization involved with land
management and parcel management workflows."
Mr. Al Khatib continued, "The DTPS is a forward-looking and progressive
government corporation. Our mandate is to consistently provide the citizens,
businesses, industries, and institutions within the Emirate of Sharjah with
the highest level of services, and we firmly believe the capabilities of our
new Bentley cadastre and land management solution will enable us to do just
that."
The Bentley Geospatial Server provides the DTPS staff with ready access
to the spatial data store. This enables all of the departments within DTPS,
including survey, planning, public services, land registration, and GIS, to
leverage authorizations, audits, and logs of actions taken to help expedite
the services they provide. At the same time, those staff members editing CAD
files can access the spatial data stored in Oracle Spatial 10g to insure data
consistency and quality across the enterprise. The Bentley Geospatial Server
also provides DTPS with enterprise printing and plotting, and controlled,
standardized workflows for editing and approvals.
All data editing is being done using Bentley Cadastre's specialized
capabilities. Built on the powerful Bentley Map desktop GIS, Bentley Cadastre
is an efficient application for creating, maintaining, and analyzing land
information. It can address any type of land management requirement,
including parcel management and taxation, agricultural land management,
easement, and right-of-way maintenance.
DTPS has also implemented Bentley Descartes for imaging and document
conversion. Fully integrated with MicroStation, Bentley Descartes provides
high-performance raster operations and enables users to quickly warp,
reference, resample, mosaic, and reproject images. Users also can create
image scenes for visualization and analysis with 3D terrain draping.
For additional information about Bentley Geospatial Server, visit
About DTPS
The Directorate of Town Planning and Survey was established as a
government corporation on June 3, 1998. The objectives and tasks of the
directorate include developing a comprehensive regional land management plan
for the Emirate of Sharjah; preparing and reviewing individual plans for each
of the emirate's cities, suburbs, and districts; preparing standards and
regulations for the emirate's cities and basic utilities; preparing and
implementing a housing policy; allocating residential, industrial,
agricultural, and commercial lands; maintaining records of land use in the
region; land surveying; and keeping pace with the latest technologies used
for all of these purposes. For additional information about DTPS, visit
About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
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engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more
than 2,700 colleagues and offices in more than 45 countries, had 2008
revenues surpassing US$500 million, and, since 1995, has invested more than
US$1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
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Ron Kuhfeld
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SOURCE: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
CONTACT: Ron Kuhfeld of Bentley Systems, Incorporated,
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