Bentley OpenUtilities is a desktop application that fulfills the core requirements to model, document, and manage as-built infrastructure asset information for electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities and to design and cost estimate plans for infrastructure extension, renewal, and maintenance activities. The core foundation builds on MicroStation CAD technology and Bentley Map 2D and 3D Spatial technology to address the unique and challenging needs of organizations that map, plan, design, build, and operate the world´s infrastructures. To meet the challenge, Bentley OpenUtilities provides three distinct installable modules: Workflow Manager, Design Editor, and Job Processor.

Workflow Manager

The Workflow Manager is an installable component of Bentley OpenUtilities that secures data access, streamlines Job and task management from current user to the next user, and increases collaboration and access to information. It accomplishes this through Group Roles assigned to users, the management of job status and states, and User Role based portals that include user tasks and metrics. The system can also be easily integrated with work and asset management systems and with ProjectWise.

Design Editor

The Design Editor provides the core GIS, Design, Visualization, and Editing environment to create, manage, analyze, and report on as-built utility infrastructure asset information, and to create, manage, analyze, cost estimate, and report on design plans for utility asset infrastructures. The tools in Design Editor can be categorized into two distinct groups: the Map tools and the Design Assistant.

The Map tools provide the primary graphical view of the data. A variety of tools are provided to model, document, analyze, and report on the infrastructures as well as advanced GIS 2D and 3D data manipulation and analysis tools and print preparation tools.

The Design Assistant tools are available in edit sessions where design plans are created and manipulated. The design tools provide the capability to assign compatible units to work locations in designs for infrastructure extension plans, maintenance plans, and renewal plans. The assignment of a compatible unit associates units of material, labor type, and cost for generation of cost estimates, Bills of Material, cost comparison purposes, and so forth. This information becomes immediately reportable. The design tools can be integrated with work and asset management systems.

Job Processor

The Job Processor is an installable component of Bentley OpenUtilities that executes and monitors job processing tasks as batch operations. Data is relayed to and from other systems while the Job Processor runs invisibly in the background. Jobs are processed according to job types, which are configured as a set of scheduling, priority, and failure notification preferences. Authorized users can view current job activity as well as information about logged events.

By performing routine or time-consuming tasks with little user intervention, the Job Processor expedites production and data maintenance processes. Users can perform their work without interruptions and delays and without competing for system resources