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Bentley Expert Designer Distribution Network Design for Electric and Gas Utilities

Agenda Expert Designer Product Overview −Background on Expert Designer −Product Information −Overview Demo −Questions & Answers Todd Rothermel Director, Geospatial Products Exton, PA Jim Lucas Service Director, Electric, Professional Services Austin, TX Larry Hurlbert Director, Business Development Austin, TX

Bentley Expert Designer Facility layout, optimization and automated compatible unit assignment to improve customer relationships at critical touch points A well-established solution for electric and gas utilities developed by Cook-Hurlbert, Inc. Bentley acquired Cook-Hurlbert in late 2005 Enhances Bentley’s Utilities Software Offerings

Bentley Solutions for Utilities Geospatial Information Technology −Geospatial Information Management −Geo Web Publisher −Mapping, Imaging, and Conversion Distribution −Design, Modeling, and Facility Management Transmission −Substation Design Water −Design, Modeling, and Facility Management

Bentley Expert Designer Enhancing the Design Process for Utility Engineers Increase Revenue −Build efficient designs −Reduce overall design to construction time Reduce Cost −Reduce Redundant Data Entry −Speed up design time −Automate communication of tasks and status −Get the right materials to the crew −Avoid errors

Expert Designer and Business Processes Improves Design Cycle Time −Increases productivity of designers −Provides immediate notification of designs to the primary geospatial environment −Auto-generates work management data −Provides reliable and consistent work packages to construction −Increases efficiency of as-built reporting −Provides interoperability with enterprise systems

Improves Knowledge of Facility Information −Spatial Data Attributes, connectivity, geometries, versions Map appearance −Work Data WMS materials, units, costs, crews −Engineering Information Analysis nodes, segments, characteristics, values Expert Designer and Business Processes

A Powerful Workflow Engine Automate complex processes, multiple workflows in utility environment Configuration allows as much or as little processing by the designer as required by business process Complex workflow and task routing Notification of pending and required tasks

Full Integration with Corporate Systems Ability to modify Work Management System information through Work Request integration Collection of asset data during the design and as-built phases Leveraging Expert Designer’s interface capabilities to transmit information to other systems

Unifies and Simplifies the Design and Work Management Environments Provides a variety of ways to view −Work Requests Folders −Overdue work −Work by district, type, or any −Park jobs, design before work request Manages Compatible Units and Material Items −Relevant to Design −Current Thousands of designs, Millions of dollars, and Thousands of construction units and material items

Performance Metrics Expert Designer provides an HTML-enabled browser built into Workplace Designer Screens Supervisor Screens Management Screens

A Flexible Architecture Oracle STORMS, SAP, Passport, Logica, Non- Commercial MicroStation, ArcGIS Smallworld, AutoCAD WMS Connectors and Geospatial Connectors Expert Designer Client Expert Designer Server Work Management Design Environment Expert Designer Server Background Processing Engine Relational Data Base Oracle Intuitive Interface VGIS & VWMS Interoperable Solution WMS and Geospatial Systems Configurable to any Data Model Configurable to any Work Management Structure Open Architecture COM, ADO, Visual C++ (MFC & ATL), VB

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