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Recent Acquisition

Bentley Systems acquires Cesium to consolidate a growing portfolio of accessible digital twin tools for infrastructure
clients

Published: September 9, 2024

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This week, Bentley Systems, a leading provider of infrastructure engineering
software, acquired Cesium’s 3D geospatial application creation platform in a move that
consolidates each group’s platforms and users to provide open framework digital
infrastructure solutions.

According to Julien Moutte, Chief Technology Officer at Bentley Systems , who wrote a
blog post on the acquisition, ” tens of thousands of developers use Cesium, and each month,
1 million active devices access Cesium ion, a SaaS platform for 3D geospatial data,”
showcasing a thriving spatial data platform.
Rory Greener
The acquisition comes as Bentley Systems acknowledges a transition in the infrastructure
industry, seeing leading firms become more data-centric. Therefore, digital twins are becoming critical
technology solutions that many professional sectors leverage to better collaborate on data-heavy workflows.

Digital twins allow businesses to leverage a high-quality 3D render of a real-world asset – in infrastructure that
could be a road or a bridge – that also includes deep data sets related to that object.

The Cesium acquisition follows Bentlely Systems’ step towards developing a framework for rich spatial data
assets, such as its first-party digital twin solution iTwin.

Bentley Systems can now leverage additional tools and standards from the Cesium portfolio, including
frameworks such as gITF and 3D Tiles, which offer professional applications for storing and streaming spatial
data.

Moutte also added:

Cesium’s success exemplifies the value of having an open approach. Bringing
Cesium into Bentley is more than combining platforms and enhancing capabilities
for developers and infrastructure professionals.

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