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News Release from: Bentley Systems | Subject: WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 August 2006
Bentley ships WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition
2006 winner of the AWWA People's Choice Award as the most useful new product, WaterGEMS V8 XM goes beyond GIS-centric products, providing a true data-centric solution.
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the commercial release of WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, the only water distribution modeling solution to unify modeling across MicroStation, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and stand-alone platforms The 2006 winner of the AWWA People's Choice Award as the most useful new product, WaterGEMS V8 XM goes beyond GIS-centric products, providing a true data-centric solution
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This means that water utilities and consulting firms can, for the first time, leverage the benefits of ArcGIS integration without sacrificing interoperability with the AutoCAD, MicroStation, and stand-alone platforms.
"Because every modeling project we do is a brand new challenge, we need water resources technology that enables us to stay flexible," said Earl Schneider, a senior associate at Hatch Mott MacDonald, a full-service engineering company.
"Though we typically use the readily accessible stand-alone environment for the majority of our modeling work, the new WaterGEMS also gives us the ability to deliver CAD-based models while still achieving high levels of functionality, performance, and integration with ArcGIS".
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Commenting on the new WaterGEMS, Robert Mankowski, director of geospatial product management for Bentley, said, "After introducing the first-ever ArcGIS-integrated water model in 2002, we are now delivering a much faster and tighter integration for ArcGIS users without suffering the restrictions of a GIS-centric paradigm".
"With WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition, a single geodatabase can be shared and collaboratively maintained by ArcGIS, AutoCAD, stand-alone, and now MicroStation users".
WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition extends every piece of functionality across all the included CAD, GIS, and stand-alone platforms.
For example, GIS users can now exercise total control over engineering units directly within ArcGIS's attribute tables, using the same FlexTables technology they can find in the other included platforms.
Additional new features of WaterGEMS V8 XM include:.
* Criticality Analysis Center: This comprehensive utility helps identify critical assets in water distribution infrastructure and evaluate the risk associated with their failure.
* New modeling elements: Hydrants, isolation valves, and variable speed pump batteries have been added to the framework to support asset management and hydraulic modeling workflows.
* Pressure-dependent demands: Users can define demands as a function of pressure to effectively model intermittent water supply scenarios, sprinkler heads, and unaccounted-for water.
* Centralized water demand management: Users can streamline water consumption estimation with new geospatial demand allocation methods, unit demand engineering libraries, and global management for simple, composite, and pressure-dependent demands.
WaterGEMS V8 XM Edition is available to all Bentley SELECT subscribers.
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