GTAA, a long-time user of Bentley products, is responsible for all building, site, and utility information for Toronto Pearson's rapidly expanding facilities. The staff of its Technical Data Center (TDC), which serves as the organization's central data custodian, continually investigates new advances that could make GTAA's substantial spatial datastores more readily available to end users and provide them with richer content.
Mike Robertson, manager of the GTAA's TDC, Facilities Engineering, said, "Bentley's introduction of the Geospatial Server, combined with XML Feature Modeling technology, enables the TDC to migrate core GTAA data sets to an enterprise-wide GIS with only superficial changes to the maintenance environment and applications. This helps avoid large training exercises or the retooling of existing workflows and facilitates a rapid rollover to the new environment."
The new system helps GTAA streamline workflows and integrate spatial information from across the entire enterprise. In addition, it facilitates collaboration, as well as compliance with GTAA's strict standards, among groups such as Project Services, Airside Engineering, Planning, Professional Services, and contractors.
Bentley's XML Feature Modeling capabilities allow GTAA data editors to perform real-time updates in the field using tablet PCs loaded with a MicroStation-based GIS application. The Bentley Geospatial Server brokers geospatial data review/approval workflows to update Oracle Database and manages access to, and the editing of, drawings in DGN, DWG, TIF, and PDF formats. Its ProjectWise Connector for Oracle enables it to use the full capabilities of Oracle Spatial.
Oracle Spatial provides data management and analysis for as-built drawings and thematic maps such as airport statistics by feature type, geospatial aspects of leases, feature coverage areas, and infrastructure overlays. Oracle Spatial support for Web Services also enables data to be published over an intranet for staff that need browser-based access to critical infrastructure information.
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About Oracle Spatial
Oracle Spatial is an option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition that extends Oracle Locator, a geospatial engine included with every Oracle Database edition. Oracle Spatial provides advanced geospatial data models and analyses to support applications in domains such as defense, homeland security, energy, utilities, and business geographics. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/database/spatial.html.
About ProjectWise Connector for Oracle
Bentley ProjectWise Connector for Oracle enables Bentley applications to interoperate with any native Oracle Spatial 9i or 10g datastore. Moreover, it preserves the definition of the geospatial data as specified by the user organization, rather than placing vendor-dictated restrictions on the Oracle Database definition. For more information about Bentley ProjectWise Connector for Oracle, visit www.bentley.com/ProjectWiseConnectorforOracle.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,500 companies that deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information, visit oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com.
About GTAA and Toronto Pearson International Airport
Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport, currently handles more than 1200 arrivals and departures every day. By the year 2020, the number of travelers passing through the airport's gates is expected to climb from 31 million recorded in 2006 to 50 million.
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is a not-for-profit corporation with a mandate to provide the Greater Toronto Area with a regional system of airports that meets the current and future demands for air services. When the GTAA took over responsibility for the operation of Pearson International Airport from Transport Canada in 1996, it took on major challenges. To maximize efficiency and to minimize cost, a bold plan was developed to phase the construction of a revitalized airport the size of a small city. For more information, visit www.gtaa.com.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world's No. 2 provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
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