Sharjah dept deploys Bentley's IT solution

Bentley Systems, a leading infrastructure software solutions provider, announced that Sharjah's Directorate of Town Planning and Survey (DTPS), has deployed its fully integrated cadastral solution.

The solution incorporates an enterprise geospatial information system (GIS) based on Bentley Geospatial Server and a computer-aided design (CAD) data editing system based on Bentley Cadastre.

Called the Integrated Land Management Solution (ILMS), the new system replaces one configured using separate GIS and CAD workflows. Because data from each workflow was stored in independent silos, DTPS often faced data inconsistencies between CAD files and the spatial data store, along with data validation and quality control problems.

In addition, the legacy system failed to provide an enterprise workflow with standardised approval processes or audit trails, leading to inefficiencies and further quality issues. The new ILMS overcomes these challenges by integrating DTPS's GIS and CAD workflows and creating a single spatial data store. As a result, all of the departments within DTPS now benefit from standardised workflows and approval processes, high-quality data, and enhanced efficiencies - enabling them to better meet the needs of the citizens and organisations they serve within the emirate.

'Our frustration with the quality of data in our legacy GIS focused our attention on integrating our GIS and CAD workflows,' said Ahmed Al Khatib, head of GIS data management, DTPS.

'Bentley's ability to provide an enterprise GIS that works seamlessly with Oracle Spatial met our needs for standardized workflows, audit trails, security, enterprise printing and plotting, and more.'

'Moreover, the unique capabilities of Bentley Cadastre as an editing environment are attractive to any organisation involved with land management and parcel management workflows.'