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Francois Valois, Product Manager

COMM3PR1 Managing Sustainable Communication Infrastructure Information with the Geospatial Server

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Agenda

• Why create the Bentley Geospatial Server?

• What is the Bentley Geospatial Server?

• How does Bentley Comms work with the Bentley Geospatial Server?

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Why create the Bentley Geospatial Server?

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The Information Explosion Era

• Information is exploding->becoming virtually impossible to manage without dedicated tools

• Unmanaged information-> constantly risking poor decision making

• Data formats, data quality, metadata must be managed

• Two types of information must be managed:– Structured information (fixed schema)– Unstructured information (no fixed schema)

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The Information Explosion Era

• 80 percent of business is conducted on unstructured information (Gartner Group).

• 85 percent of all data stored is held in an unstructured format (Butler Group).

• Unstructured data doubles every three months (Gartner Group).

Source: DCI Portals, Collaboration and Content Management conference in Miami, Zach Wahl from the Project Performance Corporation

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Problems

• Inefficiency in information management– Redoing the same work because users cannot quickly find the accurate as-built– Spending too much time/money looking for information– Receiving too much information from different sources in different formats and

ending up using e-mails as a backup system– Sometimes people re-organize their projects and it breaks all the references

that have been created– Once a project is completed we have no way to archive this data in its original

form to easily find it when our decisions are contested– We have a large, distributed team and we never know what is the latest version

of a particular document– We sometimes make decisions without all the right information at the right time,

even if this information exists in the organization– We don’t have a single source of truth for all our projects

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Problems

• Different systems can’t share information– Engineers can’t get data from the corporate spatial

database– Engineers can’t feed the corporate spatial

database directly – People can’t share part, or all of the engineering

information with other departments

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Problems• Inefficiency in project management

– No way of keeping track of project status– Sometimes people change a design and you don’t get notified

until it is too late, if you get notified at all– You have no way to evaluate different alternatives easily– You need to work on the same project for weeks before other

people are allowed to see it– You don’t know what project data was sent to a sub-contractor

and when– You have problems getting everyone to always use the correct

MicroStation workspace

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Problems• Inefficiency in the management of historical data

– You have no way to produce historical maps and reports to comply with governmental regulation

– You have no way to keep track of an asset over its full lifecycle– Producing historical maps/reports is too costly

• Inefficiency in the field – You have no digital tool to support work in the field– You have no good/fast internet access in the field and you

need to annotate or edit your designs/maps in the field

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Problems

• Cost of printing is too high– You are spending too much money on paper for

printing plans and maps– You are trying to reduce the environmental impact

of printing in your organization

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What is the Bentley Geospatial Server?

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What is the Bentley Geospatial Server?

• Bentley Geospatial Server = Enterprise GIS• Using a unique Federated Information Management

approach• The idea is simple:

– Index rather than convert– Find rather than search

• Allows managing, indexing, editing, and plotting of :– Structured information, fixed schema

• Spatial Database, DGN/XFM, Shapefile, …– Unstructured information, no schema

• Raw DGN, DWG, Word, PowerPoint, …

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The Traditional GIS Way

• Geographic Information System models the real world as features and typically works with homogenous data

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The Search Engine Way

Here is an example of how a search engine technology (Google in this case) works

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The Bentley Geospatial Server Way

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Bentley GIS/Geospatial Products

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What is the Bentley Geospatial Server?• A portfolio of the following products:

– ProjectWise Integration Server– Bentley Geospatial Management– ProjectWise Connector for Oracle– ProjectWise Interplot

• Integrated for geospatial needs• Five Services:

– Document Service– Spatial/Indexing Searching Service– Workflow Management Service– Spatial Database Service– Plotting Service

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Bentley Geospatial Server

Bentley Geospatial Server Architecture

Client Applications

Spatial Indexing/Searching Service

Plotting Service

Spatial Database ServiceWorkflow Management Service

Indexes, Metadata, Settings

Document Service

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Document service• Ability to store spatial and non-spatial files• Scalable solution• Ability to manage complex files with

references– (e.g.: DGN, SHP, MXD, DWG)

• CAD standards management• Multiple application integration

– (e.g.: Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, MicroStation, ArcMap)

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Spatial Indexing/Searching Service

• Why indexing?– Find information without conversion

• Fast and exact• Simple• Use the full value of data• Maintain data integrity• Using data quickly• Using many research criteria

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Spatial Indexing/Searching Service

• Two types of spatial indexing– Document/project extent

• Allow searching document/folder using spatial extents

– Document content• Allow searching document spatial (features) and

non-spatial content (text)

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Document/Project Extent Spatial Indexing

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Document/Project extent indexing

• A spatial location may be:– manually defined – inherited from the parent folder– scanned from the files (auto extract and batch)– imported from an external file– calculated (for a folder and files )– inferred from an attribute value

• It can be a gradual process (as with any other meta data)

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Document Content Indexing• Text indexing (Office, DGN, DWG, PDF)

– Run on the server on a scheduled basis – Can be used as research criteria– Can be combined with other criteria

• Feature indexing– Run on the server on a scheduled basis– Geometry and attributes are indexed– Find DGN files using spatial on non-spatial criteria on the

content– Produce report– Seamless display on a map– Documenting assets

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Document Content Spatial Indexing

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Workflow management service

• Allow enforcing work processes• Workflow is a set of states (e.g. initial,

design, 75% design, complete) successively traversed by an object– For each state different security can be enforced

on objects stored in the system – For each state it is also possible to have specific

communication enforced through emails

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Spatial Database Service• Excellent Oracle database citizen

– Create 100% Oracle Spatial standard data– Use Oracle Spatial metadata and coordinate

systems– Use Oracle standard versioning (Workspace

Manager)– No proprietary schemas, tables or fields (no

MSLink) required– Implementation reviewed by Oracle Spatial team

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Interoperability with Oracle Spatial

Bentley Geospatial Server

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Architecture

Bentley Geospatial Desktop

Bentley Geospatial Industry Applications

Bentley Geospatial Server

Oracle LocatorOracle Spatial

Bentley GeoWeb Publisher

−Direct editing of Oracle Spatial databases−Full support of Oracle 10G topology model−Short transactions

− Simultaneous Multi User Editing− Long transactions, optimistic

and pessimistic locking− Time component

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Bentley Geospatial Server-Oracle Spatial•Live viewing/editing•Disconnected editing•Long transaction pessimistic•Long transaction optimistic

•Multi-user editing on same area•Conflict resolution

•Geometry and topology support•Coordinate systems•Text, feature-linked text•Coded domains•Loading tools (DGN2SDO)•Time component support•Fully customizable – web services

Bentley Geospatial Desktop

Bentley Geospatial Industry Applications

Bentley Geospatial Server

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Live Database Document

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Demo

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Disconnected Database Document

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Plotting Service

• Complete plot management• Hard copy plot creation• Digital plot creation, storage and distribution

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Utilities companies use the Bentley Geospatial Server for• Information management• Work order management• Workflow management• Disconnected spatial database editing• Organization: IRIDE Energia, Torino, Italy

– Department: IT– Department focus: IT infrastructure for electric, district heating, gas and water networks– Products used: Bentley Geospatial Server, Bentley Geo Web Publisher, Bentley Map– Project: Bentley Geospatial Server and Bentley Geo Web Publisher integrated to provide

a web interface for work order management as well as integration with different web services (Spatial Database Service, SAP, etc). done by Bentley Professional Services

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Airports use the Bentley Geospatial Server for• Data editing and permitting management• Workflow management• Spatial database support• Collaboration among colleagues• Collaboration with external contractors • Organization: Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), Toronto,

Canada– Department: Technical Data Center– Organization focus: Managing airport infrastructure data: sites (water, electric, road,

runway), space (building, rental, terminal), mapping, report productions, internal web site, diffusion of base data

– Products used: Bentley Geospatial Server, Bentley Geo Web Publisher, Bentley Map– Project: Owner-operator doing all the work

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Mining companies use the Bentley Geospatial Server for• Data editing• Workflow management• Spatial database support• Collaboration among colleagues• Management of historical data• Organization: Mibrag, Germany

– Department: Topographic survey– Organization focus: Managing mine data, surveying the mine, updating mine

data, mapping, reporting– Products used: Bentley Geospatial Server, Bentley Map– Project: Bentley Professional Service and Owner-operator

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Local Governments use the Bentley Geospatial Server for• Data editing project management• Workflow management• Spatial database support• Collaboration among colleagues• Organization: City of Montreal, Canada

– Department: Geospatial– Organization focus: maintain base geospatial data for other departments.– Products used: Bentley Geospatial Server, Bentley Map– Project: Water network data update - Bentley Professional Services

provided installation and configuration support

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How does Bentley Comms work with the Bentley Geospatial

Server?

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Bentley Comms and Bentley Geospatial Server• Document Service

– Comms is capable of storing and retrieving documents

• Spatial Indexing and Searching Service– Bentley Geospatial Server is capable of indexing the

extent of any Comms DGN– Bentley Geospatial Server can is capable of

indexing the Comms features having graphics (e.g.: cable)

• Plotting Service– Comms DGN can be plotted

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Bentley Comms and Bentley Geospatial Server• Workflow Service

– Comms is fully integrated with Bentley Geospatial Server workflow service

• Spatial Database Service– Comms support the following:

• Live Database Document• Optimistic locking• Pessimistic locking

– Comms doesn’t support yet:• Disconnected database documents• Time component

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What’s coming?

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What’s coming in the future

• Document Service– Delta file transfer

• Spatial Indexing and Searching Service– Simplified searches– Better background map

• Using Bentley GeoWeb Publisher Engine• Better performance• More formats

– Live Oracle Spatial, Live DGN, SHP, WMS

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What’s coming in the future

• Spatial Database Service– Oracle GeoRaster– Oracle Cartographic Text

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Oracle Georaster

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What’s coming in the future

• Web– Standard OGC: WFS, WMS– Standard IT: SOAP, WSDL– Geospatial Web Part

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Geospatial Federated System

Ex: PODS

APDM

SAP,

Maximo, …

Documents MapsSpatial DB ERP, Work Mngt

GIS & Engineering Resources Other resources

Desktop Web Browser Mobile

Enterprise Service Bus

Service Orchestration (BPEL)

WMS/WFS

SOAP/WSDL

WMS/WFS

APDM

Index

SOA

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Summary

• Problems– Inefficiency in information management– Different systems can’t share information– Inefficiency in project management – Inefficiency in the management of historical data – Inefficiency in the field – Cost of printing is too high

• Solution– Bentley Geospatial Server with Bentley Comms