Bentley Systems, Incorporated has announced the release of Bentley Water V8 XM Edition. This comprehensive water distribution industrial design software helps engineers and GIS professionals in water utilities and municipalities design, document, and manage potable water distribution networks more efficiently. Bentley Water V8 XM provides all the capabilities of Bentley Map including map management, thematic and overlay analysis features, business and topological rules enforcement, and accurate editing. In addition, it allows easy access to enterprise data to improve the management of the asset lifecycle. Because Bentley Water V8 XM integrates with Bentley’s industry-leading Haestad Methods hydraulic modeling and analyse software, users of WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, and HAMMER can share network connectivity, maintenance records, and operational data to run hydraulic simulations of their potable water distribution systems. Bentley Water V8 XM also interoperates with Bentley Geospatial Server for enterprise GIS implementation and enterprise collaboration, Bentley PowerMap Field to support field technicians using offline data, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher for publishing water infrastructure data to internal and external websites.

“Bentley continues to lead and innovate with this latest addition to its comprehensive solution for potable water networks,” said Olcay Ebcin, GIS manager, Istanbul Water & Sewerage Administration, which serves a city with a population of more than 11 million. “As users of both Bentley Water and WaterGEMS, we welcome Bentley’s efforts to provide us with a tightly integrated workflow between hydraulic modeling, asset management, and GIS.”