Bentley Systems Announces the Acquisition of Keynetix, Provider of Geotechnical Data Management Cloud Services
28 May 2019
To
enable subsurface
digital twin services for infrastructure projects and
assets
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of
comprehensive
software and digital twins services for advancing the
design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced
the
acquisition of
Keynetix, a UK-headquartered provider of cloud-based
software for capturing, visualizing, modeling, and sharing of
geotechnical data. The addition of Keynetix software expands Bentley’s
geotechnical offerings and accelerates Bentley’s vision of enabling
subsurface digital twins for infrastructure projects and assets.
Subsurface digital twins can be vital for assessing and managing risks
in infrastructure projects, and to the planning, design, construction
and operations of infrastructure assets. The creation and curation of
subsurface digital twins involves modeling the underground
environment (geology, hydrology, chemistry, and engineering
properties, and the underground infrastructure), and utility networks,
structures, and tunnels – and then analyzing and simulating the
subsurface behavior. Supplementing borehole reports managed by Bentley’s
gINT software, Keynetix’s cloud-based geotechnical knowledge management
system captures and manages underground environment information for
Bentley’s geotechnical analysis applications, PLAXIS and SoilVision.
Mark Bevan, associate director, ground investigation data systems for
UK-based Structural Soils, Ltd., a member of the RSK Group Ltd., said,
“Bentley’s gINT and Keynetix’s HoleBASE software platforms are core,
business critical tools within our ground investigation (GI) businesses,
and have been so for more than 20 years. The acquisition of Keynetix’s
modern and innovative software into the Bentley portfolio, alongside the
mature and proven gINT platform, is a breath-taking and exciting
landmark moment within the GI digital landscape. The rapidly growing
Bentley geotechnical platform is helping to maximize the potential
positives of the digital shift we are experiencing within the GI
workplace. Ground investigation is truly going digital.”
Bob Mankowski, vice president and business unit executive of digital
cities for Bentley Systems, said, “Infrastructure professionals know
that the geologic, hydrologic, chemical and engineering properties of a
potential project site, and the infrastructure assets buried beneath the
soil,
roads, and other structures represent some of the greatest risks to
infrastructure project safety, budgets, and schedules. Having a
subsurface digital twin – a 3D representation of the subsurface coupled
with models to analyze and simulate behavior – will be immensely
valuable in all phases of the asset lifecycle. The Keynetix team and
their
technology bring decades of experience and cutting-edge cloud
services to Bentley’s already strong geotechnical portfolio – gINT,
PLAXIS, and SoilVision – and will accelerate the progress of our vision
for subsurface digital twins.”
Roger Chandler, managing director of Keynetix, said, “Today's
announcement provides our team, customers, and partners with a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to advance digital engineering in the
geotechnical industry. At Keynetix, our mission has always been to make
geotechnical data more broadly accessible and valuable. Today’s
announcement will truly open up geotechnical data collaboration across
Bentley, Autodesk, and other platforms.”
Greg Bentley, CEO for Bentley Systems, said, “My colleagues and I
welcome our new teammates from Keynetix, led by principals Roger
Chandler, Gary Morin, and Carl Grice, who for many years have envisioned
the potential and necessity of geotechnical and geoenvironmental data
management to enable better designs and more successful projects. The
geotechnical and infrastructure professions will benefit from their
continued and expanded leadership, now within Bentley Systems!”
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