S-1 1 w59294s-1.htm FORM S-1 BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED s-1
 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23, 2002
Registration No. 333-            


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549


FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
         
Delaware
 
7372
 
95-3936623
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
 
(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
     
685 Stockton Drive
Exton, Pennsylvania 19341
610-458-5000
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone
Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s
Principal Executive Offices)
  David Nation
685 Stockton Drive
Exton, Pennsylvania 19341
610-458-5000
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)


Copies of all communications to:

     
Walter J. Mostek, Jr., Esq.
James Biehl, Esq.
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
  Gordon H. Hayes, Jr., Esq.
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP
125 High Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02110

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                 


Proposed Maximum
Title of Each Class of Aggregate Offering Amount of
Securities to be Registered Price(1) Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
  $ 172,500,000     $ 15,870  


               

(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.


               The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.




 

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is declared effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED APRIL 23, 2002

PROSPECTUS

                                    Shares

(BENTLEY LOGO)

Common Stock


This is the initial public offering of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. We are offering                      shares and the selling stockholder identified in this prospectus is offering                      shares of our common stock. We anticipate that the initial public offering price will be between $          and $          per share. We have applied to list our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BSS.”

Investing in our common stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 6.

                 
Per Share Total


Initial public offering price
  $       $    
Underwriting discounts and commissions
  $       $    
Proceeds, before expenses, to Bentley Systems, Incorporated
  $       $    
Proceeds, before expenses, to the selling stockholder
  $       $    

We have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to                               additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank Securities, on behalf of the underwriters, expect to deliver the shares on or about                     , 2002.


Joint Bookrunning Managers

 
LEHMAN BROTHERS DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES


 
SG COWEN WACHOVIA SECURITIES

The date of this prospectus is                     , 2002.


 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

        This summary highlights key aspects of the information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, especially the risks of investing in our common stock discussed under “Risk Factors.”

        References to “we,” “us,” “our” and “our company” refer to Bentley Systems, Incorporated together with its subsidiaries.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated

        We are a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable our users to create, manage and publish architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) content. Our software solutions are used to design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. We focus on five vertical industries that deploy such assets: transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. In addition, we provide professional services for our software solutions, including implementation, integration, customization and training.

        We generate revenues through a renewable subscription program, known as Bentley SELECT, as well as through perpetual licenses and services. We actively market the benefits of Bentley SELECT and expect to continue growing our subscriptions revenues in future periods. In 2001, more than 60% of our revenues were derived from our subscriptions.

        Organizations engaged in the design, construction and operation of large constructed assets require a software solution that facilitates efficient design, while also allowing all project participants to communicate, collaborate and share information throughout an asset’s lifecycle. These organizations also require solutions that are specifically tailored to meet their unique industry requirements and business processes.

        Our collaborative software solutions allow project participants to communicate, collaborate and share AEC content. This collaboration enables our users to maximize the value of AEC content by providing an integrated approach to managing the lifecycle of large constructed assets. Our solutions are used to:

  Create. Generate architectural and engineering designs and associate them with intelligent content such as descriptive and other relevant information.
 
  Manage. Store, organize and index content, provide and control access and track and record changes.
 
  Publish. Share and distribute content through multiple methods to project participants from disparate organizations and communicate relevant content to other enterprise applications.

For example, using our solutions, a pump is created as an intelligent, three-dimensional graphic component and associated with descriptive attributes such as capacity and price. Through our collaboration servers, the pump can be accessed by project participants and incorporated into other designs, printed on paper or viewed over the Internet. Our collaboration servers can also send descriptive information about the pump to procurement or other enterprise systems. We believe that our collaborative approach facilitates the design and construction process, shortens project schedules, reduces overall project costs and facilitates the operation and management of the constructed asset.

        The foundation of our software solutions is our design platform, MicroStation. MicroStation was originally developed in the mid-1980s by a team of developers led by Keith and Barry Bentley. We also offer discipline-specific applications tailored to the specific needs of users in our targeted vertical industries. Our collaboration servers manage and publish content created by MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications, as well as content created by other design and enterprise applications.

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        Our solutions are used by major architectural, engineering and construction firms, including Bechtel Corporation, as well as by owner/ operators of large constructed assets, including 46 U.S. state departments of transportation, Fincantieri Cantieri Nivali Italiani SpA, Union Bank of Switzerland, San Antonio City Public Service Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We believe that owner/ operators will drive the use of collaborative AEC content applications. And today, approximately two-thirds of our MicroStation registered licenses are registered by owner/ operators. We generated total revenues of $202.6 million and net income of $4.1 million in 2001. Sales outside North America constituted 48% of total revenues, and no single customer accounted for over 1% of total revenues, in 2001.

        Our objective is to be a leading provider of collaborative software solutions to the industries we have targeted. To achieve this objective we intend to pursue the following strategies:

  Focus on the vertical industries we serve;
 
  Enhance and extend our collaborative software solutions;
 
  Grow our subscriptions revenues;
 
  Increase our direct sales and support capabilities;
 
  Expand our professional services; and
 
  Grow through strategic acquisitions.

        We were originally incorporated in California in 1984 and reincorporated in Delaware in March 1987. Our principal executive office is located at 685 Stockton Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341. Our telephone number at that address is 610-458-5000. We maintain our primary website at www.bentley.com and a number of special purpose websites in the United States and other countries in which we do business. Our websites, and the information contained therein, are not part of this prospectus.

Pending Acquisition

        On January 25, 2002, we purchased a 12.5% interest in, and an option to acquire the remainder of, Rebis, a leading developer of discipline-specific applications for the manufacturing plants industry. We expect to exercise our option to acquire the remainder of Rebis and complete this acquisition simultaneously with or soon after the closing of this offering. We intend to use approximately $                million of the net proceeds from this offering to fund a portion of this acquisition. The completion of the acquisition of Rebis is not a condition to the closing of this offering. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2001, Rebis had total revenues of $15.9 million and net income of $1.3 million.

TRADEMARKS

        Bentley®, the “B” logo, MicroStation® and Bentley SELECT® are trademarks or service marks of ours. Other trademarks and trade names appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective holders.

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The Offering

 
Common stock offered by Bentley Systems                      shares
 
Common stock offered by the selling stockholder                      shares
 
Common stock to be outstanding after the offering                      shares
 
Use of proceeds We estimate that our net proceeds from this offering, without exercise of the over-allotment option, will be approximately $                 million. We intend to use (1) approximately $                million of the net proceeds to fund a portion of our proposed acquisition of Rebis, (2) approximately $15.2 million of the net proceeds to repay indebtedness under an acquisition note and (3) the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, capital expenditures and strategic acquisitions.
 
Proposed New York Stock Exchange symbol BSS

        The number of shares of common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering is based on the number of shares outstanding as of March 31, 2002 and excludes:

  3,957,946 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding at a weighted average exercise price of $5.75 per share;
 
                  shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding to be assumed in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rebis at a weighted average exercise price of $           per share;
 
  988,290 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding at an exercise price of $10.17 per share; and
 
  2,100,000 additional shares of common stock that will be available for future issuance under our stock option plans.

        Unless otherwise indicated, information in this prospectus assumes:

  an initial public offering price of $           per share;
 
  no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option;
 
  upon the closing of this offering, the redesignation of our Class A common stock as “common stock” and the conversion of all other outstanding capital stock into                               shares of our common stock;
 
  the issuance of                               shares of our common stock in connection with our acquisition of the remainder of Rebis; and
 
  outstanding warrants to purchase 2,535,184 shares of our common stock which will be automatically exercised upon the closing of this offering. These warrants have a net issuance mechanism which, if exercised on March 31, 2002, would result in a net issuance of 158,116 shares of common stock.

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Summary Consolidated Financial Data

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

        The following tables have been derived from, and summarize, our audited consolidated financial statements and should be read together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our Consolidated Financial Statements and other information contained in this prospectus.

                                             
Year Ended December 31,

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001





Consolidated Statement of Operations Data(1):
                                       
Revenues:
                                       
 
Subscriptions
  $ 53,374     $ 78,177     $ 90,915     $ 96,830     $ 123,642  
 
Perpetual licenses
    94,224       80,350       78,450       70,251       61,463  
 
Services
    9,173       14,104       12,854       13,143       17,505  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total revenues
    156,771       172,631       182,219       180,224       202,610  
Cost of revenues:
                                       
 
Cost of subscriptions
    22,801       35,952       31,366       29,682       25,476  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    15,993       20,858       19,403       17,718       13,095  
 
Cost of services
    10,990       15,267       12,636       12,207       16,110  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total cost of revenues
    49,784       72,077       63,405       59,607       54,681  
Gross profit
    106,987       100,554       118,814       120,617       147,929  
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
    25,222       32,091       34,008       35,288       40,526  
 
Selling and marketing
    61,500       70,412       70,307       69,431       74,686  
 
General and administrative(2)
    13,001       13,535       12,778       12,056       16,259  
 
Amortization of acquired intangibles
    4,053       2,549       2,475       2,682       6,487  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total operating expenses(3)
    103,776       118,587       119,568       119,457       137,958  
Income (loss) from operations
    3,211       (18,033 )     (754 )     1,160       9,971  
Interest expense, net
    (1,282 )     (2,834 )     (1,870 )     (1,461 )     (3,462 )
Other income (expense), net
    (245 )     (860 )     695             188  
Arbitration settlements(4)
    1,596             13,563              
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    3,280       (21,727 )     11,634       (301 )     6,697  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    1,082       (7,431 )     4,227       859       2,612  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
    2,198       (14,296 )     7,407       (1,160 )     4,085  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Deemed dividends on redeemable Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock(5)
          696       2,396       2,396       7,014  
Cash dividends on redeemable Senior Class C common stock(5)
                            2,315  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders
  $ 2,198     $ (14,992 )   $ 5,011     $ (3,556 )   $ (5,244 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) per share(6):
                                       
 
Basic and Diluted
  $ 0.10     $ (0.66 )   $ 0.22     $ (0.15 )   $ (0.23 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Shares used in computing net income (loss) per share(6):
                                       
 
Basic
    21,657,500       22,862,957       22,658,837       22,981,646       23,161,495  
 
Diluted
    21,888,435       22,862,957       22,853,796       22,981,646       23,161,495  


(1) Reflects the following acquisitions: (a) on December 26, 2000, we purchased the civil engineering, plot services and raster-conversion software product lines from Intergraph Corporation and (b) on September 18, 2001, we acquired Geopak Corporation. The operating results of these entities have been included in the financial information presented from the respective dates of the acquisitions.
 
(2) Includes non-cash based compensation charges of $674 for the year ended December 31, 2001 and $1,032 for the year ended December 31, 1999 relating to the extension of the terms of certain employee stock options.

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(3) Includes incentive compensation for the five Bentley brothers named in the Summary Compensation Table. See “Management — Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table.” The annual aggregate amounts paid under this arrangement were $2,460, $675, $1,596, $1,783 and $4,293 for each of the five years ended December 31, 2001. This incentive arrangement will be replaced following this offering with the employment agreements described in “Management — Employment Agreements.”
 
(4) Represents net gain on settlements of arbitration. See Note 4 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
(5) Reflects cash dividends paid of $1,517 and accrued dividends of $798 on the Senior Class C common stock and deemed dividend for accretion to redemption value on Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock. Upon the closing of this offering, the Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock will be automatically converted into common stock and accordingly no deemed dividends will be reflected on the consolidated statements of operations thereafter.
 
(6) See Note 1 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

       The following table provides consolidated balance sheet data:

  on an actual basis;
 
  on a pro forma basis to give effect, upon the closing of this offering, to the redesignation of our Class A common stock as “common stock,” the conversion of all other outstanding capital stock into our common stock and the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the automatic exercise, on a net issuance basis as of March 31, 2002, of certain warrants held by certain of our executive officers and others, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001; and
 
  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to give further effect to the issuance of                     shares of our common stock for the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, our sale of                     shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and the application of the net proceeds as described under “Use of Proceeds,” including the payment of $           million in cash to fund a portion of the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001.

                         
December 31, 2001

Pro Forma
Actual Pro Forma As Adjusted



(unaudited) (unaudited)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
                       
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 12,994                  
Total current assets
    87,747                  
Total assets
    161,738                  
Current portion of deferred subscriptions revenues
    56,485                  
Short-term borrowings and current maturities of long-term debt
    10,131                  
Total current liabilities
    96,893                  
Long-term debt
    14,386                  
Redeemable convertible securities
    41,093                  
Total stockholders’ equity
    274                  

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RISK FACTORS

        Before you invest in our common stock, you should be aware of various risks, including those described below. You should consider carefully these risk factors, together with all of the other information included in this prospectus, before you decide to purchase shares of our common stock.

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

Our quarterly revenues fluctuate in ways that could adversely impact our operating results and

our stock price.

        Our revenues are difficult to predict and fluctuate substantially from quarter to quarter. Our actual revenues in a quarter could fall below expectations, which could lead to a decline in our stock price. Our quarterly revenues may fluctuate and may be difficult to forecast for a variety of reasons, including the following:

  a higher concentration of sales in the fourth quarter as a result of information technology spending patterns;
 
  postponement or cancellation of orders for new perpetual licenses or subscriptions due to changes in general economic conditions or in strategic priorities, project objectives, budget or personnel of our users;
 
  variability in user evaluations and the duration of internal approval and expenditure authorizations;
 
  changes in the pricing of our products and services or those of our competitors;
 
  variability in the mix of our revenues from subscriptions, perpetual licenses and services; and
 
  unpredictability in users’ purchasing decisions due to the number, timing and significance of software product enhancements and new software product announcements by us and our competitors.

We cannot ensure that our revenues will grow or that we will maintain profitability.

        We suffered net losses in 2000 and 1998. Growth in our revenues is dependent upon increased levels of spending on information technology by our existing and new users, especially on our discipline-specific applications and collaboration servers, and on overall economic growth. Competition in the marketplace may require us to increase our operating expenses in the future in order to:

  develop our direct sales force and increase our sales and marketing efforts;
 
  broaden our user support and other services offerings; and
 
  expand our administrative resources.

        We have also experienced fluctuation in operating results in interim periods in certain geographic regions due to seasonality or regional economic conditions. To the extent that increases in our expenses precede or are not followed by increased revenues, our profitability will suffer. Our revenues must continue to grow and we must manage our expenses appropriately in order for us to maintain our profitability on a quarterly and annual basis.

        Our operating expenses are based in part on our expectations for future revenues and are relatively fixed in the short term. Accordingly, any shortfall in our revenues could have an immediate and significant adverse effect on our operating results and stock price. You should not rely on our past results to predict our future performance.

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An erosion of MicroStation’s market acceptance would have an adverse impact on our operating results because our MicroStation platform provides the foundation for the majority of our revenues.

        We derive revenues from our MicroStation platform, discipline-specific applications that run on MicroStation and collaboration servers that are interoperable with our MicroStation platform. In 2001, we derived over half of our revenues from MicroStation perpetual licenses and the Bentley SELECT subscriptions covering MicroStation. We expect that current and future versions of MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications will continue to account for a large portion of our revenues in the foreseeable future. Our future financial performance will depend on the development and future commercial acceptance of our products and on the successful development, introduction and commercial acceptance of future products and upgrades. If our products or any future upgrades do not gain commercial acceptance, or if significant defects are found, demand for our products will decline, resulting in a significant reduction in our revenues.

        MicroStation V8 reads and writes files in its own DGN format, as well as files in the DWG format developed by one of our competitors and which is used by programs and applications written by several of our competitors. Should the DWG file format be revised in such a way that MicroStation is unable to read and write to such files, demand for MicroStation may erode.

Our growth depends on our ability to develop or acquire discipline-specific applications and

collaboration servers.

        The market for our MicroStation platform is mature. We cannot assure you that MicroStation will achieve greater penetration in our target industries. As a result, our growth will depend on our ability to develop or acquire discipline-specific applications and collaboration servers and successfully market these additional products in our targeted industries.

We recently changed our distribution model, and we are unsure whether our new model will succeed.

        In 2001, we initiated a strategy to change our distribution model for perpetual licenses from a predominantly resale model to one that emphasizes direct sales. Formerly, we sold perpetual licenses to our channel partners for resale to end users, with the channel partners retaining the difference between the prices they paid to us and the prices they charged to end users. Under our new model, we continue to rely on many of the same channel partners to help us identify and consummate sales to end users and pay a commission on perpetual licenses to these channel partners. Because we have only recently introduced this new distribution model in North America and have not yet implemented it globally, we are unsure whether or to what extent it will succeed. In addition, we have incurred and will continue to incur costs associated with our shift to this new distribution model. If our new distribution model is unsuccessful, we may lose channel partners, users and, consequently, sales and subscriptions.

        We have recently announced another change to our distribution strategy, to take effect beginning in 2003, whereby certain users will be defined as corporate accounts and will be serviced solely by our direct sales force.

        If our channel partners do not agree with any of the changes described above and decide to reduce or eliminate sales of our products or if we fail to identify, hire and retain effective members of our direct sales force, our operating results may be adversely impacted.

We may not be able to complete the acquisition of the remainder of Rebis.

        We expect that the acquisition of the remainder of Rebis will occur simultaneously with or soon after the closing of this offering. The acquisition is subject to certain closing conditions, including that our company shall not have suffered a material adverse effect. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that this pending acquisition will occur. We estimate the total remaining consideration to be $           million, of which 70% will be paid in cash and the remaining 30% will be paid in shares of our common stock, valued at the initial public offering price. If we are unable to close this acquisition, the net proceeds from this

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offering that would have been used for the Rebis acquisition will be used to fund other possible acquisitions and for general corporate purposes.

We may be unable to identify or complete suitable acquisitions and any acquisitions we do complete may disrupt our business operations, result in future impairment charges or be dilutive to our stockholders.

        As part of our business strategy, we intend to pursue strategic acquisitions. We may be unable to identify suitable acquisitions. If we identify suitable candidates, we cannot assure you that we will be able to finance those acquisitions on commercially acceptable terms. If we acquire a company, we may have difficulty integrating its products, services, technologies or personnel into our operations or its key personnel may decide not to work for us. These difficulties could disrupt our ongoing business, distract our management and workforce, increase our expenses and adversely affect our operating results. We may incur significant debt or issue equity securities to pay for future acquisitions. The issuance of equity securities may be dilutive to our stockholders.

        Our business acquisitions typically result in goodwill and other intangible assets which affects the amount of future period amortization expense. The determination of the value of such intangible assets requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect our consolidated financial statements. The value of intangible assets may be impaired in the future, resulting in changes to our operating results that could be material.

Because our users are concentrated in five vertical industries, our operating results may be adversely affected by changes in one or more of these industries.

        As a result of our focus on the transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government sectors, our financial results depend, in significant part, upon economic conditions in these sectors. Demand for our solutions may be reduced by a decline in overall demand for computer software and services or in demand for computer software and services in the vertical industries that we serve. An economic downturn or adverse change in the regulatory environment or business prospects for one or more of the industries we serve, or a change in the levels of government spending, may cause our users to reduce information technology spending. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will be able to increase or maintain our revenues from users in the vertical industries on which we currently focus our resources.

Because the majority of our revenues is derived from providing Bentley SELECT to subscribers for a subscription fee, the cancellation of these subscriptions would adversely impact our business.

        For the year ended December 31, 2001, we generated more than 60% of our total revenues through our subscriptions. We have expended significant financial and personnel resources on the assumption that our subscribers will not terminate these subscriptions. However, if users terminate their subscriptions due to market conditions, changing perceptions of the quality of our products or services or other factors, our revenues will significantly decrease and our business will suffer.

We may be unable to retain or attract users if we do not develop new products or enhance our current products in response to technological changes and market demand.

        Rapid technological change as well as changes in user requirements are characteristic of the software industry. New platforms and technologies are expected to be developed in the industries we serve. We are devoting significant resources to the development of new technologies, requiring a considerable investment of technical and financial resources. These investments may not generate sufficient revenues to offset their costs or generate expected returns. We will not compete effectively if we fail to:

  maintain and enhance our technological capabilities to correspond to emerging environments and standards;
 
  develop and market products and services that meet changing user needs; or
 
  anticipate or respond to technological changes on a cost-effective and timely basis.

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        In addition, a decline in the demand for information technology among our current and prospective users will result in decreased revenues or slower growth because our sales depend, in part, on our users’ demand for new or additional information technology systems and services. We must develop additional discipline-specific applications that satisfy the changing, specialized requirements of current and prospective users in our target industries. To the extent we determine that new technologies are required to remain competitive, the development, acquisition and implementation of such technologies may require us to make significant investments. We may not be able to fund these investments and these investments in new technologies may not result in commercially viable products, which would result in a loss of revenues and adversely affect our business and our operating results.

Our international operations expose us to risks related to government regulation, intellectual property rights, collectibility of payments, exchange rate fluctuations and other risks, any of which could adversely impact our operating results.

        We anticipate that international operations will continue to account for the same or an increasing portion of our revenues. Our revenues from sales outside North America constituted approximately 47% and 48% of our total revenues in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Risks inherent in our international operations include the following:

  unexpected changes in or differing regulatory practices and tariffs and trade barriers;
 
  difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations;
 
  longer collection cycles for accounts receivable;
 
  increased cost and development time required to modify and translate our products for local markets;
 
  failure to identify suitable channel partners, systems integrators or other third-party vendors;
 
  differing foreign technical standards;
 
  regulatory, social, political, labor or economic conditions in a specific country or region;
 
  operating costs in many countries that are higher than in the United States;
 
  laws, policies and other regulatory requirements affecting trade and investment including loss or modification of exemptions for taxes and tariffs and import and export license requirements;
 
  exposure to different legal standards or risks;
 
  greater difficulty in protecting our intellectual property rights; and
 
  the impact of fluctuating exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies in markets where we do business.

We face competition from a number of software companies that have advantages due to their larger user base, greater name recognition, long operating and product development histories, greater international presence and substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources.

        The market for our software solutions has been and continues to be intensely competitive. Our competitors vary in size and in the scope of the products and services they offer. They include well established companies that have larger installed user bases. We encounter competition from a number of sources, including:

  technology companies providing content creation, management and publishing in transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government;
 
  vendors of factory planning solutions, including mechanical computer aided design;
 
  vendors of product lifecycle management solutions;

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  generalized content management, document management and publishing vendors;
 
  horizontal, collaborative enterprise software vendors;
 
  systems integrators, who may advocate for alternative approaches or competitive solutions; and
 
  “in house” information technology departments or local technology providers that may develop technology that provides some or all of the functionality of our products and services.

        We expect to experience additional competition from companies that may consolidate complementary products and technologies or existing vendors who may enter any of the vertical industries we serve. Some competitors have become more aggressive with their pricing, payment terms or issuance of contractual implementation terms or guarantees. We may be unable to continue to compete successfully with new and existing competitors without lowering prices or offering other favorable terms. We expect the competitive environment to persist and intensify, which could negatively impact our operating results and market share.

If we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, if we are subject to intellectual property infringement claims of third parties or if we are unable to continue to license important third-party software, our business will be harmed.

        We rely on a combination of contract, patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws and other measures to protect our intellectual property rights. The protective measures we have taken may not deter misappropriation of our intellectual property and proprietary information. A third party could obtain our proprietary information or may independently develop technologies that are less expensive or more effective than our technology. We may be unable to detect the unauthorized use of, or take appropriate steps to enforce, our intellectual property rights. In addition, the laws of some countries in which our software products are, or may be, licensed do not protect our software products and intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Enforcing our rights could be costly.

        We may be subject to adverse claims or litigation alleging infringement by us of the intellectual property rights of others. As the number and functionality of our products increases, we become increasingly subject to the risk of infringement claims. If infringement claims are brought against us, our defense against these claims could distract management and we may have to expend significant funds and resources to defend or settle such claims. If we are found to infringe the intellectual property rights of others, we could be forced to pay significant license fees, royalties or damages for infringement.

        As part of our standard license agreements, we agree to indemnify our users for some types of infringement claims under the laws of the United States and some foreign jurisdictions. If a claim against us were successful, we may be required to incur significant expense and pay substantial damages as we are unable to insure against this risk. Even if we were to prevail, the accompanying publicity could adversely impact the demand for our software. Provisions attempting to limit our liability in our standard agreements may be invalidated by unfavorable judicial decisions or by federal, state, local or foreign laws or ordinances.

        We integrate third-party software into certain of our products, including MicroStation. We may not be able to renew our third-party licenses or develop or purchase alternative technology. Even if licenses for third-party software are available to us, they may not be available on commercially viable terms. If we cannot maintain licenses for important third-party software or develop or license similar technology on a timely or commercially viable basis, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

If we are unable to retain Greg Bentley, Keith Bentley, Barry Bentley and other key personnel, our business will be adversely affected.

        We are highly dependent on certain members of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer, Greg Bentley, and our Co-Chief Technology Officers, Keith Bentley and Barry Bentley. Greg,

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Keith and Barry Bentley will be bound by employment agreements only for a limited duration. If any of our key personnel become unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, our business and financial results could be adversely affected.

If we are unable to attract, train and retain qualified personnel, specifically software engineers, sales and marketing personnel, professional services personnel and managerial personnel, we will be unable to develop, sell and service new products and increase our revenues.

        If we are unable to attract, train and retain highly-skilled technical, sales and marketing, professional services and managerial personnel, we may be unable to compete effectively. Competition for personnel in the software industry is intense and, at times, we have had difficulty hiring qualified candidates within desired geographic locations, including near our headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, or with certain industry-specific expertise. Uncertainty created by turnover of key employees or the inability to attract, train or retain enough qualified personnel to support our growth could adversely affect our business and operating results.

The New York Stock Exchange could delist us if we are unable to appoint one additional director who meets the NYSE’s independence requirements within 12 months following this offering.

        The rules of the New York Stock Exchange require that we have an audit committee composed of three independent directors. A director is considered “independent” under these rules if, among other things, he or she is not one of our employees and has no other relationship that may interfere with the exercise of the director’s independence from management and our company. Two of our directors currently meet these requirements. If we are unable to appoint a third director within 12 months following this offering, our listing on the New York Stock Exchange could be jeopardized. Delisting could affect your ability to sell your shares and cause a decline in the market price of your shares.

Terrorist attacks or threats or acts of war may negatively impact our business, financial condition and operating results.

        Our business is affected by general economic conditions and fluctuations in consumer confidence and spending, as well as government and industry spending, which can decline as a result of numerous factors outside of our control, such as terrorist attacks and acts of war. Recent terrorist attacks in the United States, as well as events occurring in response to or in connection with them, including future terrorist attacks against United States targets and targets in other countries in which we do business, rumors or threats of war, actual conflicts involving the United States, its allies or other countries in which we do business, or military or trade disruptions impacting our users, may adversely impact our operations. As a result, there could be decreased sales of our products and services, increased costs from added security measures and extensions of time for payment of accounts receivable from our users. Any or a combination of these occurrences could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

Risks Related to This Offering

We have allocated approximately           % of the net proceeds of this offering to fund a portion of the Rebis acquisition and repay certain indebtedness and management may spend or invest the remaining net proceeds of this offering in ways with which you may not agree.

        We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering to fund a portion of our acquisition of Rebis, repay certain indebtedness and for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures and possible acquisitions and investments. We have broad discretion to determine the allocation of our net proceeds from this offering that will be used for general corporate purposes. You will not have an opportunity to evaluate the economic, financial or other information on which we base our decisions on how to use these net proceeds. Our management’s failure to use these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our financial position and operating results.

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Our use of Arthur Andersen as our independent auditors may adversely affect this offering and our business.

        On March 14, 2002, Arthur Andersen LLP was indicted on federal obstruction of justice charges arising from the government’s investigation of Enron Corporation. Andersen has publicly stated that it intends to contest vigorously the indictment. This prospectus includes our consolidated financial statements, financial statements of Geopak Corporation and consolidated financial statements of Rebis, each audited by Andersen. The Securities and Exchange Commission has said that it will continue accepting financial statements audited by Andersen and interim financial statements reviewed by it, so long as Andersen is able to make certain representations to its clients. Our access to the capital markets and our ability to make timely SEC filings could be impaired if the SEC ceases accepting financial statements audited by Andersen, if Andersen becomes unable to make necessary representations to us or if for any reason, including the loss of key members of our audit team from Andersen, Andersen is unable to perform required audit services for us in a timely manner. In such a case, we would promptly seek to engage new independent auditors, but such actions could disrupt our operations and affect the price and liquidity of our common stock.

A large number of shares may be sold in the market following this offering, which may cause our common stock price to significantly decline.

        Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market by our stockholders after this offering, or the perception that these sales are likely to occur, could cause the market price of our common stock to decline and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. Based on shares outstanding as of March 31, 2002, upon completion of this offering we will have outstanding            million shares of common stock, assuming that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option. Of these            million shares,            million — including the shares sold in this offering — will be freely tradable, without restriction, in the public market immediately after the offering is completed. After the lockup agreements pertaining to this offering expire 180 days from the date of this prospectus, an additional            million shares will be eligible for sale in the public market. In addition, if all outstanding and vested options and warrants were fully exercised,            shares would be available for sale 90 days from the date of this prospectus and an additional            shares would be available 180 days from the date of this prospectus.

An active public market for our common stock may not develop, which would impede your ability to sell your shares and could cause our common stock price to decline.

        Before this offering, no public market existed for our common stock. If you purchase shares of common stock in this offering, you will pay a per share price that was not established in a public trading market. Rather, you will pay the per share price that we negotiated with the representatives of the underwriters. An active public market for our common stock may not develop or be sustained after this offering, which would affect your ability to sell your shares and would cause a decline in the market price of your shares. The market price of your shares may fall below the initial public offering price.

Our executive officers and directors and their affiliates will own           % of our outstanding common stock after this offering which may significantly lessen the impact of your voting rights.

        We anticipate that our executive officers and directors, together with their affiliates, will beneficially own an aggregate of approximately           % of our outstanding common stock following the completion of this offering. These stockholders may be able to exercise substantial influence over our actions that require stockholder approval, including electing directors and approving significant corporate transactions. In addition, three of the Bentley brothers, Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley, currently represent a majority of the board of directors and will continue to represent a majority immediately following this offering. This concentration of ownership might also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our company, which could cause our stock price to decline. We cannot assure you that these stockholders will vote their shares in a manner that is consistent with your preferences.

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Anti-takeover provisions in our certificate of incorporation and by-laws could discourage or prevent an acquisition of our company and could affect the price of our common stock.

        Provisions of the amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws that we intend to adopt before the closing of this offering may inhibit changes of control that are not approved by our board of directors. These include a classified board of directors with staggered, three-year terms, board ability to designate and issue our authorized but undesignated preferred stock, a prohibition on stockholder actions by written consent, a prohibition on stockholder ability to call special meetings and advance notice for nominations of directors and stockholders’ proposals. In addition, as a Delaware corporation, we will be subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which, in general, prevents an interested stockholder, defined generally as a person owning 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock, from engaging in a business combination, as defined, for three years following the date that person became an interested stockholder unless specified conditions are satisfied.

        Our certificate of incorporation and by-law provisions and Delaware law could diminish the opportunities for a stockholder to participate in tender offers, including tender offers at prices above the then current fair market value of our common stock, that could result from takeover attempts. In addition, our certificate of incorporation will allow our board of directors to issue, without further stockholder approval, preferred stock that could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control. The issuance of preferred stock also could adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our common stock, including the loss of voting control to others. The provisions of our certificate of incorporation and by-laws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, may have the effect of discouraging or preventing an acquisition of our business. These provisions could limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock.

The stockholder rights plan we intend to adopt will also have anti-takeover effects.

        The stockholder rights plan that we expect to adopt is designed to protect our stockholders in the event of unsolicited offers to acquire us and other coercive takeover tactics that, in the opinion of our board of directors, could impair its ability to adequately represent stockholder interests. The provisions of the stockholder rights plan may render an unsolicited takeover more difficult or less likely to occur or might prevent such a takeover, even though such a takeover may offer our stockholders the opportunity to sell their stock at a price above the prevailing market price and may be favored by a majority of our stockholders.

As a new investor, you will experience immediate dilution of           % in the book value of your common stock and will experience additional dilution as outstanding options and warrants are exercised.

        The per share net tangible book value of common stock you purchase in this offering will be less than the initial public offering per share price you paid for such common stock. Accordingly, if you purchase common stock in this offering at an initial public offering price of $          per share, you will incur immediate and substantial dilution of $          per share, which equals the difference between your purchase price per share and the net tangible book value per share. Prior investors paid lower per share prices than the initial public offering price. In addition, we have issued a significant number of options and warrants to purchase common stock at prices significantly below the initial public offering price. As of March 31, 2002 and giving effect to this offering, we had outstanding options to purchase 3,957,946 shares of common stock at a weighted average exercise price of $5.75 per share and outstanding warrants to purchase up to 988,290 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $10.17 per share. To the extent these outstanding options and warrants are exercised, there will be further dilution to our investors.

        In addition, the board of directors will adopt two new stock option plans that will become effective on or before the closing of this offering. Issuance of common stock upon the exercise of options issued under these new plans will have the effect of further diluting our investors.

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

        This prospectus contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws that relate to future events or our future financial performance and that are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology, such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “intend,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain such terms. In addition, these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding:

  implementing our business strategy;
 
  impact of changes in our distribution model;
 
  marketing and commercializing our products and services under development;
 
  plans for future products and services and for enhancements of existing products and services;
 
  our intellectual property;
 
  our estimates of future revenues and profitability;
 
  our expectations regarding future expenses, including research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses;
 
  our use of the net proceeds from this offering;
 
  our estimates regarding our capital requirements and our needs for additional financing;
 
  attracting and retaining users and employees;
 
  rapid technological changes in our industry and relevant markets;
 
  sources of revenues and anticipated revenues;
 
  our sensitivity to changes in foreign exchange rates and interest rates;
 
  impact of changes in accounting standards;
 
  plans for future acquisitions and for the integration of recent acquisitions; and
 
  competition in our market.

        These statements are only predictions and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We are not required to and do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this prospectus or to conform these statements to actual results. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed in this prospectus might not occur. Actual results, levels of activity, performance, achievements and events may vary significantly from those implied by the forward-looking statements. A description of risks that could cause our results to vary appears under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

        In this prospectus, we refer to information regarding our potential markets and other industry data. We believe that we have obtained this information from reliable sources that customarily are relied upon by companies in our industry, but we have not independently verified any of this information.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

        We estimate that we will receive net proceeds of approximately $           million from the sale of shares of our common stock in this offering. If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, we estimate that we will receive total net proceeds of approximately $           million. These net proceeds are based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and are calculated after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholder.

        We intend to use:

  an estimated $           million of the net proceeds to fund a portion of the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, a leading developer of discipline-specific applications for the manufacturing plants industry, in a transaction more fully described in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Acquisitions — Rebis”;
 
  approximately $15.2 million of the net proceeds to repay a promissory note issued in connection with our acquisition of certain product lines from Intergraph Corporation on December 26, 2000. The note bears interest at an annual rate of 9.5% and has a maturity date of December 1, 2003; and
 
  the remaining net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and possible acquisitions. We currently have no agreements with respect to material acquisitions other than the Rebis acquisition.

        The amount and timing of our uses of the net proceeds from this offering may vary significantly depending upon a number of factors, including our revenue growth, asset growth, cash flow and acquisition activities. Pending our use of the net proceeds of this offering, we intend to invest the net proceeds from this offering in interest-bearing, investment-grade securities.

DIVIDEND POLICY

        We have not paid any cash dividends on our Class A common stock for the last five years and have never paid cash dividends on our Class B common stock or Class D common stock. We pay quarterly dividends on our Senior Class C common stock. In 2001, we paid approximately $1.5 million in dividends on the Senior Class C common stock. In addition, we had accrued but unpaid dividends as of December 31, 2001 of approximately $0.8 million, which have since been paid.

        Upon the closing of this offering, our Class A common stock will be redesignated “common stock” and our outstanding shares of Class B common stock, Senior Class C common stock, Class D common stock and Series A preferred stock will be converted into shares of our common stock.

        We do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock after this offering. Our policy is to retain cash for our operations and the expansion of our business. Our senior secured credit facility contains covenants limiting our ability to pay cash dividends under certain circumstances.

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CAPITALIZATION

        The following table summarizes our capitalization as of December 31, 2001:

  on an actual basis;
 
  on a pro forma basis to give effect, upon the closing of this offering, to the redesignation of our Class A common stock as “common stock,” the conversion of all other outstanding capital stock into our common stock and the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the automatic exercise, on a net issuance basis as of March 31, 2002, of certain warrants held by certain of our executive officers and others, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001; and
 
  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to give further effect to the issuance of                      shares of our common stock for the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, our sale of                      shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and the application of the net proceeds as described under “Use of Proceeds,” including the payment of $           million in cash to fund a portion of the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001.

        You should read this table together with “Selected Consolidated Financial Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

                               
December 31, 2001

Pro Forma
Actual Pro Forma As Adjusted



(in thousands, except share data)
(unaudited) (unaudited)
Short-term borrowings and current maturities of long-term debt
  $ 10,131     $       $    
Long-term debt
    14,386                  
     
     
     
 
 
Total short-term borrowings and long-term debt
    24,517                  
Redeemable convertible securities:
                       
 
Redeemable convertible Series A preferred stock
    24,753                  
 
Redeemable convertible Senior Class C common stock
    8,690                  
 
Redeemable convertible Class D common stock
    5,910                  
 
Redeemable common stock warrants
    1,740                  
     
     
     
 
   
Total redeemable convertible securities
    41,093                  
Stockholders’ equity:
                       
Preferred stock, par value $0.01, 1,552,450 shares authorized, issued and outstanding, actual (see Redeemable convertible Series A preferred stock above); 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted
                     
Class A and Class B common stock, par value $0.01, 90,000,000 shares authorized, 24,959,724 shares issued and 22,927,974 shares outstanding, actual; Common Stock, par value $0.01, 100,000,000 shares authorized, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted;           shares issued and          shares outstanding, pro forma;           shares issued and          shares outstanding, pro forma as adjusted
    250                  
 
Additional paid-in capital
    18,250                  
 
Notes receivable from stockholders
    (6,241 )                
 
Other comprehensive loss
    (7,632 )                
 
Retained earnings
    6,254                  
 
Treasury stock — 2,031,750 shares at cost
    (10,607 )                
     
     
     
 
   
Total stockholders’ equity
    274                  
     
     
     
 
     
Total capitalization
  $ 65,884     $       $    
     
     
     
 

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        The table excludes, as of December 31, 2001:

  3,960,146 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding at a weighted average exercise price of $5.75 per share on an actual basis and                      shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding to be assumed in connection with the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis at a weighted average exercise price of $          per share on a pro forma as adjusted basis;
 
  3,523,474 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding on an actual basis and 988,290 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding at an exercise price of $10.17 per share on a pro forma and pro forma as adjusted basis; and
 
  2,100,000 additional shares of common stock that will be available for future issuance under our stock option plans.

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DILUTION

Pro Forma Net Tangible Book Value

        The pro forma net tangible book value of our common stock was approximately $           million, or approximately $          per share, as of December 31, 2001. Pro forma net tangible book value per share represents the amount of our total tangible assets less total liabilities divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding. We calculated pro forma net tangible book value assuming each of the following occurred on December 31, 2001:

  the redesignation of our Class A common stock as “common stock” and the conversion of all other outstanding capital stock into our common stock;
 
  the sale of the common stock offered hereby;
 
  the issuance of shares of our common stock in connection with the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis and the associated intangibles acquired in connection with this acquisition; and
 
  the issuance, upon closing of this offering, of shares of our common stock upon the automatic exercise, on a net issuance basis as of March 31, 2002, of certain warrants held by certain of our executive officers and others.

Dilution After This Offering

        Dilution in net tangible book value per share represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers of our common stock in this offering and the net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after this offering.

        Assuming our sale of                      shares of common stock offered by this prospectus at an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, our pro forma net tangible book value as of December 31, 2001 would have been approximately $           million or $          per share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $          per share to the existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $          per share to new investors purchasing common stock in this offering.

The table below illustrates this dilution:

                   
Initial public offering price per share
          $    
 
Pro forma net tangible book value per share
  $            
 
Increase per share attributable to new investors
               
     
         
Pro forma net tangible book value per share after offering
               
             
 
Pro forma dilution per share to new investors
          $    
             
 

Differences Between New and Existing Stockholders in Number of Shares and Amount Paid

        The table below summarizes, on a pro forma basis, as of December 31, 2001, the differences between the number of shares of common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid and the average price per share paid by existing stockholders and by the new investors purchasing shares in this offering. We assumed an initial public offering price of $          per share and we have not deducted the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses in our calculations.

                                           
Shares Purchased Total Consideration


Average Price
Number Percent Amount Percent Per Share





Existing stockholders
              %   $           %   $    
New investors
                                  $    
     
     
     
     
         
 
Total
            100.0 %           $ 100.0 %        
     
     
     
     
         

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        If the underwriters exercise the over-allotment option in full:

  the number of shares of common stock held by existing stockholders will decrease to approximately           % of the total number of shares of our outstanding common stock; and
 
  the number of shares held by new investors will increase to                     , or approximately           % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after completion of this offering.

        The foregoing excludes as of December 31, 2001:

  3,960,146 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding at a weighted average exercise price of $5.75 per share on an actual basis and                      shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding to be assumed in connection with the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, at a weighted average exercise price of $          per share, on a pro forma as adjusted basis;
 
  988,290 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants outstanding at an exercise price of $10.17 per share, on a pro forma basis; and
 
  2,100,000 additional shares of common stock that will be available for future issuance under our stock option plans.

        The exercise of options or warrants outstanding that have an exercise price less than the initial public offering price will increase dilution to new investors.

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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

(in thousands, except share and per share data)

        The following tables have been derived from, and summarize, our audited consolidated financial statements and should be read together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our Consolidated Financial Statements and other information contained in this prospectus.

                                             
Year Ended December 31,

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001





Consolidated Statement of Operations Data(1):
                                       
Revenues:
                                       
 
Subscriptions
  $ 53,374     $ 78,177     $ 90,915     $ 96,830     $ 123,642  
 
Perpetual licenses
    94,224       80,350       78,450       70,251       61,463  
 
Services
    9,173       14,104       12,854       13,143       17,505  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total revenues
    156,771       172,631       182,219       180,224       202,610  
Cost of revenues:
                                       
 
Cost of subscriptions
    22,801       35,952       31,366       29,682       25,476  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    15,993       20,858       19,403       17,718       13,095  
 
Cost of services
    10,990       15,267       12,636       12,207       16,110  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total cost of revenues
    49,784       72,077       63,405       59,607       54,681  
Gross profit
    106,987       100,554       118,814       120,617       147,929  
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
    25,222       32,091       34,008       35,288       40,526  
 
Selling and marketing
    61,500       70,412       70,307       69,431       74,686  
 
General and administrative(2)
    13,001       13,535       12,778       12,056       16,259  
 
Amortization of acquired intangibles
    4,053       2,549       2,475       2,682       6,487  
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total operating expenses(3)
    103,776       118,587       119,568       119,457       137,958  
Income (loss) from operations
    3,211       (18,033 )     (754 )     1,160       9,971  
Interest expense, net
    (1,282 )     (2,834 )     (1,870 )     (1,461 )     (3,462 )
Other income (expense), net
    (245 )     (860 )     695             188  
Arbitration settlements(4)
    1,596             13,563              
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    3,280       (21,727 )     11,634       (301 )     6,697  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    1,082       (7,431 )     4,227       859       2,612  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
    2,198       (14,296 )     7,407       (1,160 )     4,085  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Deemed dividends on redeemable Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock(5)
          696       2,396       2,396       7,014  
Cash dividends on redeemable Senior Class C common stock(5)
                            2,315  
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders
  $ 2,198     $ (14,992 )   $ 5,011     $ (3,556 )   $ (5,244 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) per share(6):
                                       
 
Basic and Diluted
  $ 0.10     $ (0.66 )   $ 0.22     $ (0.15 )   $ (0.23 )
     
     
     
     
     
 
Shares used in computing net income (loss) per share(6):
                                       
 
Basic
    21,657,500       22,862,957       22,658,837       22,981,646       23,161,495  
 
Diluted
    21,888,435       22,862,957       22,853,796       22,981,646       23,161,495  


(1) Reflects the following acquisitions: (a) on December 26, 2000, we purchased the civil engineering, plot services and raster-conversion software product lines from Intergraph Corporation and (b) on September 18, 2001, we acquired Geopak Corporation. The operating results of these entities have been included in the financial information presented from the respective dates of the acquisitions.

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(2) Includes non-cash based compensation charges of $674 for the year ended December 31, 2001 and $1,032 for the year ended December 31, 1999 relating to the extension of the terms of certain employee stock options.
 
(3) Includes incentive compensation for the five Bentley brothers named in the Summary Compensation Table. See “Management — Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table.” The annual aggregate amounts paid under this arrangement were $2,460, $675, $1,596, $1,783 and $4,293 for each of the five years ended December 31, 2001. This incentive arrangement will be replaced following this offering with the employment agreements described in “Management — Employment Agreements.”
 
(4) Represents net gain on settlements of arbitration. See Note 4 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
(5) Reflects cash dividends paid of $1,517 and accrued dividends of $798 on the Senior Class C common stock and deemed dividend for the accretion to redemption value on Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock. Upon completion of this offering, the Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock will be automatically converted into common stock and accordingly no deemed dividends will be reflected on the consolidated statements of operations thereafter.
 
(6) See Note 1 to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

       The following table provides selected consolidated balance sheet data:

  on an actual basis;
 
  on a pro forma basis to give effect, upon the closing of this offering, to the redesignation of our Class A common stock as “common stock,” the conversion of all other outstanding capital stock into our common stock and the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the automatic exercise, on a net issuance basis as of March 31, 2002, of certain warrants held by certain of our executive officers and others, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001; and
 
  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to give further effect to the issuance of                shares of our common stock for the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, our sale of                shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and the application of the net proceeds as described under “Use of Proceeds,” including the payment of $           million in cash to fund a portion of the proposed acquisition of the remainder of Rebis, as if each had occurred on December 31, 2001.

                                                         
December 31,

Pro Forma
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Pro Forma As Adjusted







(unaudited) (unaudited)
(in thousands)
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
                                                       
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 4,893     $ 6,985     $ 8,440     $ 6,437     $ 12,994                  
Total current assets
    62,986       93,259       83,878       83,494       87,747                  
Total assets
    95,950       129,258       113,908       140,470       161,738                  
Current portion of deferred subscriptions revenues
    18,566       29,161       40,117       42,946       56,485                  
Short-term borrowings and current maturities of long-term debt
    14,718       24,781       17,021       22,707       10,131                  
Total current liabilities
    60,754       86,370       78,919       93,406       96,893                  
Long-term debt
    8,849       13,221       9,650       13,560       14,386                  
Redeemable convertible securities
          14,506       16,902       23,612       41,093                  
Total stockholders’ equity
    25,541       13,515       2,516       3,696       274                  

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

        The following should be read with our Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes to those statements and other financial information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. The discussion in this prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, such as statements of our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. The cautionary statements made in this prospectus should be read as applying to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this prospectus. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed here. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those discussed in “Risk Factors,” as well as those discussed elsewhere in this prospectus.

Overview

        We are a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable our users to create, manage and publish architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) content. Our software solutions enable our users to design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. We focus on five vertical industries that deploy such assets: transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. In addition, we provide professional services for our software solutions, including implementation, integration, customization and training.

        Revenues. We generate revenues from subscriptions, perpetual licenses and services. Our subscriptions revenues consist of annual recurring fees that our users pay for Bentley SELECT. Coverage under Bentley SELECT includes the right to use our products on a concurrent license basis and access to maintenance and technical support, product updates, upgrades and enhancements. Subscriptions revenues include Bentley SELECT coverage for separately sold perpetual licenses. Subscriptions revenues also include annual and monthly term licenses under the Bentley SELECT subscription program. We began offering term licenses with the introduction of our Geopak software product lines in 1996. In April 2002, we expanded our subscription program to include annual and monthly term licenses for additional Bentley software solutions and a comprehensive enterprise subscription program for our largest users. We actively market the benefits of our Bentley SELECT subscription program and expect to continue deriving a larger percentage of total revenues from our recurring subscription base in future periods. As a percentage of total revenues, subscriptions revenues were 49.9%, 53.7% and 61.0% in 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively.

        We recognize revenues from subscriptions ratably over the duration of the contract. The duration of the initial Bentley SELECT subscription contract is typically two years and we also offer licenses for monthly or annual terms. These contracts automatically renew for successive terms, unless terminated. Billings in advance of providing these services are recorded as deferred subscriptions revenues. We recognize revenues from perpetual licenses when persuasive evidence of an agreement exists, delivery has occurred, the fee is fixed or determinable, collectibility is considered probable and there are no remaining obligations. Our professional services consist of implementation, integration, customization and training. We recognize revenues for these services as they are performed.

        Cost of Revenues. Cost of subscriptions revenues includes our internal salaries and related costs associated with servicing Bentley SELECT subscribers, as well as channel partner compensation for providing sales coverage and support to our Bentley SELECT subscribers. Cost of perpetual licenses includes channel partner compensation, royalties to certain technology providers, amortization of software translation costs, user manuals, the costs of diskettes and packaging materials and shipping and handling costs. Cost of services includes salaries for internal and third party personnel and related overhead costs for providing implementation, integration, customization and training services to our users.

        Operating Expenses. Our operating expenses include research and development, selling and marketing and general and administrative expenses. Research and development expenses consist primarily

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of salaries and benefits for software development engineers, third party development fees, costs of computer equipment used in software development and facilities costs. Selling expenses consist primarily of salaries and sales commissions paid to our sales employees, travel expenses and facilities costs. Marketing expenses include funding for major events and trade shows, user and channel partner promotional activities, development and distribution of product literature and demonstration materials, publishing activities and advertising. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of employee and other costs associated with information systems, finance, human resources, legal and other administrative operations.

        Historically, the incentive compensation of the five Bentley brothers named in the Summary Compensation Table was computed generally based on 20% of operating cash earnings each quarter. See “Management — Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table.” The aggregate annual amounts paid under this arrangement were $2.5 million, $0.7 million, $1.6 million, $1.8 million and $4.3 million for each of the five years ended December 31, 2001. This incentive arrangement will be replaced following this offering with the employment agreements described in “Management — Employment Agreements.”

        We generated approximately 36% of our total revenues in 2001 from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 9% from Asia/Pacific and 3% from Latin and South America. North America includes Canada and the United States and Latin and South America includes Mexico. Because we generate revenues and incur expenses in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, changes in exchange rates will affect our revenues and operating performance. We believe we have a natural hedge against currency fluctuations because we generate revenues and incur costs and expenses in local currencies. Accordingly, we do not employ other mechanisms to manage our exposure to foreign currency risk.

Impact of Change in Distribution Model

        In 2001, we initiated a strategy to change our distribution model for perpetual licenses from a predominantly resale model to one that emphasizes direct sales. Under our new model, we sell and deliver perpetual licenses directly to our users and the channel partner assigned to the account earns a commission. The new distribution model took effect in North America in November 2001 and will be phased in globally during 2002. Under the new model, our recognized revenues from the sale of each perpetual license are expected to be higher, reflecting the end user mark-up. Our cost of revenues will also increase by an approximately equal amount reflecting the commission paid to our channel partners. We anticipate that this change will not materially affect our gross profit, but that our gross margin percentage from perpetual licenses will decline.

        In anticipation of this change in our distribution model, we actively sought to reduce the volume of products carried by our channel partners in their inventories. These efforts resulted in a reduction in channel partner inventories from approximately $13.3 million as of December 31, 2000 to approximately $1.5 million as of December 31, 2001. The reduction in channel partner inventories during 2001 represents products purchased by our end users from our channel partners in excess of the $61.5 million in perpetual licenses revenues that we recognized in 2001.

Acquisitions

        Rebis. On January 25, 2002, we purchased for $5.0 million in cash a 12.5% interest in, and an option to acquire the remainder of, Rebis, a leading developer of discipline-specific applications for the manufacturing plants industry. It is our current intention to exercise this option. Based upon a formula set forth in the option, we estimate the total consideration to be $                    million, of which 70% will be paid in cash and the remaining 30% will be paid in shares of our common stock, valued at the initial public offering price. The closing of this acquisition is subject to certain closing conditions. We cannot give you any assurance that the contingencies related to our acquisition of the remainder of Rebis will be satisfied in a timely manner, or at all. The completion of the acquisition of the remainder of Rebis is not a condition to the closing of this offering. For the year-ended September 30, 2001, Rebis had revenues of

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$15.9 million and net income of $1.3 million. The initial investment is accounted for under the cost method of accounting for investments.

        Geopak. In December 1996, we purchased 25% of the capital stock of Geopak Corporation and acquired worldwide distribution rights for Geopak’s products. Geopak develops civil engineering software based on MicroStation primarily for the transportation industry. On September 18, 2001, we acquired the remaining capital stock of Geopak for an aggregate purchase price of $17.2 million. In consideration for such acquisition, we paid the stockholders of Geopak $7.5 million in cash and issued 40,000 shares of our Senior Class C common stock, 480,000 shares of our Class D common stock and warrants to purchase up to 554,667 shares of our Class B common stock. This acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting and, accordingly, the assets and liabilities acquired were recorded at their estimated fair values on the acquisition date.

        Intergraph Product Lines. On December 26, 2000, we purchased the civil engineering, plot-services and raster-conversion software product lines from Intergraph for a total purchase price of $35.4 million, as adjusted during 2001. At the closing, we paid $13.5 million in cash, excluding transaction costs, and delivered a promissory note for the balance, which is payable in equal installments over a three-year period. The note bears interest at an annual rate of 9.5%. We will repay this acquisition note with a portion of the net proceeds of this offering. This acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting and accordingly, the assets and liabilities acquired were recorded at their estimated fair values on the acquisition date.

Critical Accounting Policies

        We have identified the policies below as critical to our business operations and the understanding of our operating results. The impact of and any associated risks related to these policies on our business operations are discussed throughout “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” where such policies affect our reported and expected financial results. A “critical accounting policy” is one that is both important to the portrayal of our financial condition and operating results and requires management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. For a detailed discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies, see Note 1 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. Our preparation of this prospectus requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of our Consolidated Financial Statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. We cannot assure you that actual results will not be different from those estimates.

        Revenue Recognition. Our revenue recognition policy is significant because our revenues are the key component of our results of operations. In addition, our revenue recognition policy determines the timing of associated costs, such as commissions and royalties. We follow very specific and detailed guidelines in determining revenues; however, certain judgments affect the application of our revenue policy such as reserves for possible returns of products from our channel partners and subscriptions revenues to be recognized on contracts awaiting renewal notification. Revenue results are difficult to predict and any shortfall in revenues or delay in recognizing revenues could cause our operating results to vary significantly from quarter to quarter and could result in future operating losses.

        We recognize revenues from non-recurring perpetual license agreements in accordance with the provisions of AICPA Statements of Position (SOP) 97-2 “Software Revenue Recognition,” and SOP 98-9 “Modification of SOP 97-2, Software Revenue Recognition, With Respect to Certain Transactions” as well as the preliminary conclusions of Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) issue 00-21, “Multiple Element Arrangements.” Perpetual licenses for software are generally recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the fee is fixed or determinable, collectibility is probable and all

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significant obligations have been fulfilled. For arrangements containing multiple elements, such as perpetual license fees, support/ maintenance and consulting services and where vendor-specific objective evidence (VSOE) of fair value exists for all undelivered elements, we account for the delivered elements in accordance with the “residual method” prescribed by SOP 98-9.

        We recognize revenues from Bentley SELECT subscriptions ratably over the duration of the contract. The duration of the initial Bentley SELECT subscription contract is typically two years and we also offer licenses for monthly or annual terms. These contracts automatically renew for successive terms unless terminated. Billings in advance of providing services are recorded as deferred subscriptions revenues. Our professional services facilitate the implementation, integration, customization and training of our software solutions. We recognize revenues for these services as they are performed, as they are principally contracted for on a time and material basis.

        In 2001, we initiated a strategy to change our distribution model for perpetual licenses from a predominantly resale model to one that emphasizes direct sales. Prior to the change, we recognized revenues upon shipment to the channel partner and recorded a reserve that reduced revenues for an estimate of future returns. Estimates for returns were adjusted periodically based upon historical rates of returns, inventory levels in the distribution channel and other related factors. While management believes it can make reliable estimates for these matters, nevertheless unsold products in these distribution channels are exposed to rapid changes in end user preferences or technological obsolescence due to new operating environments, product updates or competing products. As the amount of inventory in our distribution channel is no longer material, this risk has been reduced.

        Allowance for doubtful accounts. Accounts receivable are reduced by an allowance for amounts that may become uncollectible in the future. The majority of our receivables is due from various end users and channel partners located throughout the United States, Europe and Asia/Pacific. From time to time, our users dispute the amounts due to us and in other cases our users experience financial difficulties and cannot pay on a timely basis. In certain instances, these factors ultimately result in uncollectible accounts. The determination of the appropriate reserve needed for uncollectible accounts involves significant judgment. Changes in the factors used to evaluate collectibility could result in changes in the reserve needed. Such factors include changes in the financial condition of our customers as a result of industry, economic or customer-specific factors.

        Intangibles. Our business acquisitions typically result in goodwill and other intangible assets. This affects the amount of future period amortization expenses and impairment expenses that we may incur. Our judgments regarding the existence of impairment indicators are based on legal factors, market conditions and operational performance of our acquired businesses. As of December 31, 2001 and 2000, we had approximately $49.7 million and $31.7 million of goodwill and other intangibles, net, respectively, accounting for 31% and 23%, respectively, of our total assets. The determination of the value of such intangible assets requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect our consolidated financial statements. See “— Recent Accounting Pronouncements.”

        Income taxes. Our income tax policy records the estimated future tax effects of temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and amounts reported in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, as well as operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. We follow specific guidelines regarding the recoverability of any tax assets recorded on the balance sheet and provide any necessary allowances as required. The carrying value of our net deferred tax assets assumes that we will be able to generate sufficient future taxable income in certain tax jurisdictions, based on estimates and assumptions. If these estimates and related assumptions change in the future, we may be required to record additional valuation allowances against our deferred tax assets resulting in additional income tax expense in our consolidated statement of operations.

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Results of Operations

        The following table sets forth certain line items in our consolidated statement of operations as a percentage of total revenues for the periods indicated:

                             
Year Ended December 31,

1999 2000 2001



Revenues:
                       
 
Subscriptions
    49.9 %     53.7 %     61.0 %
 
Perpetual licenses
    43.1       39.0       30.3  
 
Services
    7.0       7.3       8.7  
     
     
     
 
   
Total revenues
    100.0       100.0       100.0  
Cost of revenues:
                       
 
Cost of subscriptions
    17.2       16.5       12.6  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    10.7       9.8       6.5  
 
Cost of services
    6.9       6.8       7.9  
     
     
     
 
   
Total cost of revenues
    34.8       33.1       27.0  
Gross margin
    65.2       66.9       73.0  
Operating expenses:
                       
 
Research and development
    18.7       19.6       20.0  
 
Selling and marketing
    38.6       38.5       36.9  
 
General and administrative
    7.0       6.7       8.0  
 
Amortization of acquired intangibles
    1.3       1.5       3.2  
     
     
     
 
   
Total operating expenses
    65.6       66.3       68.1  
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) from operations
    (0.4 )     0.6       4.9  
Interest expense, net
    (1.0 )     (0.8 )     (1.7 )
Other income, net
    0.4             0.1  
Arbitration settlement, net
    7.4              
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    6.4       (0.2 )     3.3  
Provision for income taxes
    2.3       0.4       1.3  
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
    4.1 %     (0.6 )%     2.0 %
     
     
     
 

Year Ended December 31, 2001 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2000

Revenues

        Total Revenues. Total revenues increased to $202.6 million in 2001 from $180.2 million in 2000, representing an increase of 12.4%.

        The following table reflects the significant changes in our revenues from 2000 to 2001:

                                   
Perpetual
Subscriptions Licenses Services Total




(in millions)
2000 total revenues
  $ 96.8     $ 70.3     $ 13.1     $ 180.2  
 
Acquisitions
    17.8       8.2       0.4       26.4  
 
Decrease in channel inventory
          (11.8 )           (11.8 )
 
Impact of foreign exchange
    (1.8 )     (2.1 )     (0.3 )     (4.2 )
 
Other changes in revenues
    10.8       (3.1 )     4.3       12.0  
     
     
     
     
 
2001 total revenues
  $ 123.6     $ 61.5     $ 17.5     $ 202.6  
     
     
     
     
 

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        As a percentage of total revenues, revenues outside of North America accounted for approximately 48.1% in 2001 and 47.4% in 2000. Our total revenues originated from the following major geographic territories:

                 
2001 2000


North America
    51.9%       52.6%  
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
    36.0%       35.3%  
Asia/Pacific
    9.3%       10.1%  
Latin and South America
    2.8%       2.0%  

        Subscriptions. Subscriptions revenues increased to $123.6 million in 2001 from $96.8 million in 2000, representing an increase of 27.7%. The acquisition of the product lines from Intergraph and the acquisition of Geopak represented $15.8 million and $2.0 million of the increase, respectively. The other increase of $10.8 million, or 11.2%, was primarily driven by Bentley SELECT subscriptions coverage of newly sold perpetual licenses and new subscription coverage on previously sold perpetual licenses. As a percentage of total revenues, subscriptions revenues increased to 61.0% in 2001 from 53.7% in 2000.

        Perpetual Licenses. Revenues from perpetual licenses decreased to $61.5 million in 2001 from $70.3 million in 2000, representing a decrease of 12.5%. The acquisition of the product lines from Intergraph contributed an additional $8.2 million in perpetual licenses revenues in 2001. The change in our distribution model resulted in a reduction of channel partner inventories of $11.8 million in 2001. If channel partner inventories had remained constant in 2001, we would have recognized an additional $11.8 million in perpetual licenses revenues. The other decrease of $3.1 million is largely the result of our increased emphasis on subscriptions revenues. As a percentage of total revenues, perpetual licenses revenues decreased to 30.3% in 2001 from 39.0% in 2000.

        Services. Revenues from services increased to $17.5 million in 2001 from $13.1 million in 2000, representing an increase of 33.2%. This increase reflects our strategy to build our professional services in support of our products. As a percentage of total revenues, services revenues increased to 8.7% in 2001 from 7.3% in 2000.

Cost of Revenues

        Total Cost of Revenues. Cost of revenues decreased to $54.7 million in 2001 from $59.6 million in 2000, representing a decrease of 8.3%. The decrease was attributable to lower channel partner compensation for subscription program services, elimination of royalty expenses previously paid to two technology providers that we acquired during 2000 and 2001, a reduction in software translation costs and reductions in the cost of packaging, shipping and handling, which reflect an emphasis on electronic fulfillment of orders. Gross margin was 73.0% in 2001 and 66.9% in 2000.

        Cost of Subscriptions. Cost of subscriptions decreased to $25.5 million in 2001 from $29.7 million in 2000, representing a decrease of 14.2%. Gross margin on subscriptions revenues was 79.4% in 2001 and 69.3% in 2000. The increase in gross margin was primarily attributable to a decrease in channel partner compensation. In 2001, channel partner compensation for providing sales coverage and support to our Bentley SELECT users was reduced as we assumed greater responsibility for providing these services.

        Cost of Perpetual Licenses. Cost of perpetual licenses decreased to $13.1 million in 2001 from $17.7 million in 2000, representing a decrease of 26.1%. Gross margin on perpetual licenses was 78.7% in 2001 and 74.8% in 2000. The increase in gross margin was primarily attributable to the elimination of royalty expenses previously paid to two technology providers that we acquired during 2000 and 2001 and reductions in the cost of packaging, shipping and handling, which reflect an emphasis on electronic fulfillment of orders.

        Cost of Services. Cost of services increased to $16.1 million in 2001 from $12.2 million in 2000, representing an increase of 32.0%. Gross margin on service revenues was 8.0% in 2001 and 7.1% in 2000. This increase was attributable to better utilization of internal and external staffing.

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Operating Expenses

        Research and Development. Research and development expenses increased to $40.5 million in 2001 from $35.3 million in 2000, representing an increase of 14.8%. The increase primarily reflects the addition of software development engineers associated with the acquisitions of the Intergraph product lines and Geopak, as well as regular salary increases for existing employees. Research and development expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 20.0% in 2001 and 19.6% in 2000. We expect to continue investing in research and development initiatives associated with MicroStation, our discipline-specific applications and collaboration servers.

        Selling and Marketing. Selling and marketing expenses increased to $74.7 million in 2001 from $69.4 million in 2000, representing an increase of 7.6%. The increase was attributable to the addition of sales and marketing personnel in connection with acquisitions, activities associated with the launch of MicroStation V8 and regular salary increases for existing personnel. Offsetting these increases were decreases attributable to the postponement of our annual users conference in 2001 due to the events of September 11. Selling and marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 36.9% in 2001 and 38.5% in 2000.

        General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses increased to $16.3 million in 2001 as compared to $12.1 million in 2000, representing an increase of 34.9%. The increase is attributable to general and administrative expenses associated with the acquisition of Geopak, regular salary increases for existing personnel and travel expenses. General administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 8.0% in 2001 and 6.7% in 2000.

        Amortization of Acquired Intangibles. Amortization of acquired intangibles increased to $6.5 million in 2001 from $2.7 million in 2000. This increase was primarily attributable to our acquisition of product lines from Intergraph and, to a lesser extent, our acquisition of Geopak. See “— Recent Accounting Pronouncements.”

        Changes in foreign exchange rates had a favorable impact of approximately $2.2 million on operating expenses during 2001.

Interest Expense, net

        Interest expense, net increased to $3.5 million in 2001 from $1.5 million in 2000. Interest expense increased to $4.2 million in 2001 from $2.2 million in 2000. The increase reflected increased debt, amortization of bank fees associated with our revolving credit line and non-cash costs relating to warrants issued to certain executives for the guarantee of our revolving credit line. Interest income was consistent at $0.7 million in 2001 and in 2000.

Other Income, net

        Other income, net was $0.2 million in 2001 as compared to none in 2000. This increase reflects an increase associated with our equity in income of minority interests, partially offset by an unfavorable change in foreign exchange rates.

Provision for Income Taxes

        The provision for income tax increased to $2.6 million in 2001 from $0.9 million in 2000. The provision for income tax for 2001 reflects an effective worldwide tax rate of approximately 39%. Provision for income taxes for 2000 reflects non-deductible expense on our pretax loss of $0.3 million. We expect that our effective income tax rate will decline to approximately 35% in 2002 as a result of the deductibility of goodwill.

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Year Ended December 31, 2000 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 1999

Revenues

        Total Revenues. Total revenues decreased to $180.2 million in 2000 from $182.2 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 1.1%.

        The following table reflects the significant changes in our revenues from 1999 to 2000:

                                   
Perpetual
Subscriptions Licenses Services Total




(in millions)
1999 total revenues
  $ 90.9     $ 78.4     $ 12.9     $ 182.2  
 
Acquisitions
    0.8                   0.8  
 
Increase in channel inventory
          4.8             4.8  
 
Impact of foreign exchange
    (3.6 )     (3.2 )     (0.5 )     (7.3 )
 
Other changes in revenues
    8.7       (9.7 )     0.7       (0.3 )
     
     
     
     
 
2000 total revenues
  $ 96.8     $ 70.3     $ 13.1     $ 180.2  
     
     
     
     
 

        As a percentage of total revenues, revenues outside North America accounted for approximately 47.4% in 2000 and 49.2% in 1999. Our total revenues originated from the following major geographic territories:

                 
2000 1999


North America
    52.6 %     50.8 %
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
    35.3 %     35.9 %
Asia/ Pacific
    10.1 %     9.9 %
Latin and South America
    2.0 %     3.4 %

        Subscriptions. Subscriptions revenues increased to $96.8 million in 2000 from $90.9 million in 1999, representing an increase of 6.5%. This increase was driven by $8.7 million from Bentley SELECT subscription coverage of newly sold perpetual licenses and new subscription coverage on previously sold perpetual licenses. This increase was partially offset by $3.6 million in foreign exchange effects. As a percentage of total revenues, subscriptions revenues increased to 53.7% in 2000 from 49.9% in 1999.

        Perpetual Licenses. Revenues from perpetual licenses decreased to $70.3 million in 2000 from $78.4 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 10.5%. This decrease was due to our emphasis on subscriptions revenues and a stronger U.S. dollar, which reduced comparative revenues by $3.2 million. This decrease was partially offset by an increase of $4.8 million in channel partner inventories during 2000. As a percentage of total revenues, perpetual licenses revenues decreased to 39.0% in 2000 from 43.1% in 1999.

        Services. Revenues from services increased to $13.1 million in 2000 from $12.9 million in 1999, representing an increase of 2.2%. As a percentage of total revenues, services revenues remained consistent at 7.3% in 2000 and 7.0% in 1999.

Cost of Revenues

        Total Cost of Revenues. Cost of revenues decreased to $59.6 million in 2000 from $63.4 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 6.0%. Gross margin on revenues was 66.9% in 2000 and 65.2% in 1999.

        Cost of Subscriptions. Cost of subscriptions decreased to $29.7 million in 2000 from $31.4 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 5.4%. Gross margin on subscriptions revenues was 69.3% in 2000 and 65.5% in 1999. The increase in gross margin was primarily attributable to a decrease in channel partner compensation, offset by increased internal technical support costs. In 2000, channel partner compensation for providing sales coverage and support to our Bentley SELECT users was reduced as we assumed greater responsibility for providing these services.

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        Cost of Perpetual Licenses. Cost of perpetual licenses decreased to $17.7 million in 2000 from $19.4 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 8.7%. This decrease was the result of lower perpetual licenses revenues. Gross margin on perpetual licenses remained relatively consistent at 74.8% in 2000 and 75.3% in 1999.

        Cost of Services. Cost of services decreased to $12.2 million in 2000 from $12.6 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 3.4%. Gross margin on service revenues was 7.1% in 2000 and 1.7% in 1999. This increase was attributable to better utilization of internal and external staff.

Operating Expenses

        Research and Development. Research and development expenses increased to $35.3 million in 2000 from $34.0 million in 1999, representing an increase of 3.8%. The increase primarily reflects the addition of software development engineers associated with an acquisition that occurred in May 2000, as well as regular salary increases for existing employees. Research and development expenses as a percentage of revenues were 19.6% in 2000 and 18.7% in 1999.

        Selling and Marketing. Selling and marketing expenses decreased to $69.4 million in 2000 from $70.3 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 1.2%. This decrease was primarily due to cost control efforts related to advertising, marketing and promotion costs. Selling and marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 38.5% in 2000 and 38.6% in 1999.

        General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses decreased to $12.1 million in 2000 from $12.8 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 5.7%. In 1999, we recorded $1.0 million in stock-based compensation expense, which did not occur in 2000. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 6.7% in 2000 and 7.0% in 1999.

        Amortization of Acquired Intangibles. Amortization of acquired intangibles increased to $2.7 million in 2000 from $2.5 million in 1999. See “Recent Accounting Pronouncements.”

        Changes in foreign exchange rates had a favorable impact of approximately $3.2 million on operating expenses during 2000.

Interest Expense, net

        Interest expense, net decreased to $1.5 million in 2000 from $1.9 million in 1999, representing a decrease of 21.9%. Interest expense was $2.2 million in 2000 and $2.3 million in 1999. Interest income was $0.7 million for 2000 and $0.4 million for 1999. The increase reflected interest earned on notes receivable from employees related to purchases of equity, which were issued in 1999 and 2000.

Other Income, net

        Other income, net was none in 2000 as compared to $0.7 million in 1999. This decrease reflects an unfavorable change in foreign exchange rates, and an increased loss from our equity in minority interests.

Arbitration Settlement

        In 1999, we recognized a gain of $13.6 million of income pursuant to an arbitration settlement agreement between us and Intergraph Corporation. See Note 4 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for a more complete description of the terms of the Intergraph arbitration settlement.

Provision for Income Taxes

        The provision for income tax decreased to $0.9 million in 2000 from $4.2 million in 1999. The provision for income tax for 2000 reflects the effects of non-deductible expenses on our pretax loss of $0.3 million. While non-deductible expenses remained relatively consistent between 1999 and 2000, we reported taxable income of $11.6 million in 1999 as compared to a pretax loss of $0.3 million in 2000.

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Selected Quarterly Operating Results

        The following tables set forth certain unaudited quarterly consolidated statements of operations data for each of the eight quarters ended December 31, 2001 and the percentage of our total revenues represented by each item in the respective quarter. This unaudited quarterly information has been prepared on the same basis as the annual information presented elsewhere herein and, in management’s opinion, includes all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the information for the quarters presented. The operating results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results of any future period.

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Three Months Ended,

Mar 31, Jun 30, Sep 30, Dec 31, Mar 31, Jun 30, Sep 30, Dec 31,
2000 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001








(in thousands, unaudited)
Revenues:
                                                               
 
Subscriptions
  $ 22,719     $ 23,014     $ 24,568     $ 26,529     $ 28,970     $ 29,857     $ 31,685     $ 33,130  
 
Perpetual licenses
    15,712       16,090       16,576       21,873       15,427       16,516       12,325       17,195  
 
Services
    2,372       3,285       3,162       4,324       3,654       4,799       4,095       4,957  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total revenues
    40,803       42,389       44,306       52,726       48,051       51,172       48,105       55,282  
Cost of revenues:
                                                               
 
Cost of subscriptions
    6,820       7,624       6,960       8,278       6,687       7,551       6,190       5,048  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    5,488       4,452       4,775       3,003       3,537       4,181       2,923       2,454  
 
Cost of services
    3,081       3,088       3,174       2,864       3,115       4,149       3,962       4,884  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total cost of revenues
    15,389       15,164       14,909       14,145       13,339       15,881       13,075       12,386  
Gross profit
    25,414       27,225       29,397       38,581       34,712       35,291       35,030       42,896  
Operating expenses:
                                                               
 
Research and development
    7,403       8,253       9,287       10,345       9,043       9,235       9,249       12,999  
 
Selling and marketing
    16,006       18,320       17,221       17,884       17,944       18,873       17,728       20,141  
 
General and administrative
    2,576       2,606       2,429       4,445       3,830       3,225       4,112       5,092  
 
Amortization of intangibles
    750       849       883       200       1,654       1,362       1,910       1,561  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total operating expenses
    26,735       30,028       29,820       32,874       32,471       32,695       32,999       39,793  
Income (loss) from operations
    (1,321 )     (2,803 )     (423 )     5,707       2,241       2,596       2,031       3,103  
Interest expense, net
    (467 )     (352 )     (403 )     (239 )     (1,010 )     (714 )     (421 )     (1,317 )
Other income (expense), net
    1,097       (768 )     (236 )     (93 )     117       347       (562 )     286  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (691 )     (3,923 )     (1,062 )     5,375       1,348       2,229       1,048       2,072  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    (458 )     (1,304 )     (352 )     2,973       526       870       409       807  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
  $ (233 )   $ (2,619 )   $ (710 )   $ 2,402     $ 822     $ 1,359     $ 639     $ 1,265  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
                                                                     
Three Months Ended,

Mar 31, Jun 30, Sep 30, Dec 31, Mar 31, Jun 30, Sep 30, Dec 31,
2000 2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001








(unaudited)
Revenues:
                                                               
 
Subscriptions
    55.7 %     54.3 %     55.5 %     50.3 %     60.3 %     58.3 %     65.9 %     59.9 %
 
Perpetual licenses
    38.5       38.0       37.4       41.5       32.1       32.3       25.6       31.1  
 
Services
    5.8       7.7       7.1       8.2       7.6       9.4       8.5       9.0  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total revenues
    100.0       100.0       100.0       100.0       100.0       100.0       100.0       100.0  
Cost of revenues:
                                                               
 
Cost of subscriptions
    16.7       18.0       15.7       15.7       13.9       14.8       12.9       9.1  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    13.4       10.5       10.8       5.7       7.4       8.1       6.1       4.4  
 
Cost of services
    7.6       7.3       7.2       5.4       6.5       8.1       8.2       8.9  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total cost of revenues
    37.7       35.8       33.7       26.8       27.8       31.0       27.2       22.4  
Gross profit
    62.3       64.2       66.3       73.2       72.2       69.0       72.8       77.6  
Operating expenses:
                                                               
 
Research and development
    18.2       19.5       21.0       19.6       18.8       18.0       19.2       23.5  
 
Selling and marketing
    39.2       43.2       38.8       33.9       37.3       36.9       36.9       36.5  
 
General and administrative
    6.3       6.1       5.5       8.5       8.0       6.3       8.5       9.2  
 
Amortization of intangibles
    1.8       2.0       2.0       0.4       3.4       2.7       4.0       2.8  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
   
Total operating expenses
    65.5       70.8       67.3       62.4       67.5       63.9       68.6       72.0  
Income (loss) from operations
    (3.2 )     (6.6 )     (1.0 )     10.8       4.7       5.1       4.2       5.6  
Interest expense, net
    (1.2 )     (0.8 )     (0.9 )     (0.5 )     (2.1 )     (1.4 )     (0.9 )     (2.4 )
Other income (expense), net
    2.7       (1.8 )     (0.5 )     (0.1 )     0.2       0.7       (1.1 )     0.5  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    (1.7 )     (9.2 )     (2.4 )     10.2       2.8       4.4       2.2       3.7  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
    (1.1 )     (3.1 )     (0.8 )     5.6       1.1       1.7       0.9       1.4  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
    (0.6 )%     (6.1 )%     (1.6 )%     4.6 %     1.7 %     2.7 %     1.3 %     2.3 %
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

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        Our operating results have varied on a quarterly basis and may fluctuate significantly in the future. In general, our revenues are highest in the fourth quarter, reflecting customer expenditures against approved budgets and information technology spending. Our revenues generally are also strong in the second quarter, due in part to fiscal year ends of our government clients. Third quarter revenues are generally lower than fourth quarter revenues primarily due to a slow down in the summer months, particularly outside of North America.

        Other factors that could affect our quarterly operating results include those described below and elsewhere in this prospectus:

  a higher concentration of sales in the fourth quarter as a result of information technology spending patterns;
 
  postponement or cancellation of orders for new perpetual licenses or subscriptions due to changes in general economic conditions or in strategic priorities, project objectives, budget or personnel of our users;
 
  variability in user evaluations and the duration of internal approval and expenditure authorizations;
 
  changes in the pricing of our products and services or those of our competitors;
 
  variability in the mix of our revenues from subscriptions, perpetual licenses and services; and
 
  unpredictability in users’ purchasing decisions due to the number, timing and significance of software product enhancements and new software product announcements by us and our competitors.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

        We finance our operations primarily with cash generated through operations and our revolving credit facility. During 2000, we borrowed from our revolving credit facility for working capital purposes and to fund, in part, the acquisition of product lines from Intergraph. During 2001, we repaid the outstanding balance under the revolving credit facility. As of December 31, 2001, we had $13.0 million in cash and cash equivalents and a working capital deficit of $9.1 million. Excluding the current portion of deferred subscriptions revenues, our working capital as of December 31, 2001 was $47.3 million.

        Net cash provided by operating activities was $35.7 million, $17.8 million and $20.1 million in 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. In 2001, net cash provided by operating activities resulted primarily from our net income before depreciation and amortization and an increase in deferred subscriptions revenues. In 2000, net cash provided by operating activities resulted primarily from our net income before depreciation and amortization and increases in accruals and other current liabilities. Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $17.9 million in 2001 as compared to 2000. This increase was primarily the result of net income of $4.1 million in 2001 compared to a net loss of $1.2 million in 2000 and an increase in our deferred subscriptions revenues of $8.3 million primarily due to the acquisition of the product lines from Intergraph and the annual Bentley SELECT subscriptions covering these product lines.

        Net cash used in investing activities was $9.5 million, $25.0 million and $4.7 million in 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. Cash used in investing activities in 2001 reflects purchases of property, plant and equipment of $4.7 million, the net cash portion of the acquisition of Geopak Corporation of $3.7 million and $1.1 million for capitalized software translation costs and investments. Cash used in investing activities in 2000 reflects acquisitions of $14.2 million, purchases of property, plant and equipment of $7.8 million and $2.9 million for capitalized software translation costs and investments. Cash used in investing activities in 1999 reflected $2.6 million for capitalized software translation costs, investments and acquisitions of technology and other intangibles. In 1999, purchases of property, plant and equipment were $2.2 million. We have generally funded acquisitions and capital expenditures, in part, through the use of cash generated through operations, bank loans and the sale of equity securities.

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        Net cash used in financing activities was $19.7 million in 2001, net cash provided by financing activities was $5.3 million in 2000 and net cash used in financing activities was $13.1 million in 1999. In 2001, we repaid $22.8 million under the revolving credit facility and other debt and paid $1.5 million in Senior Class C common stock dividends. These cash outflows were offset by proceeds from long-term debt of $2.6 million and the sale of Senior Class C common stock of $2.6 million. In 2000, we borrowed $15.5 million from our revolving credit facility and repaid $18.7 million of other short-term and long-term debt. We also received proceeds of $7.4 million from the sale of Senior Class C common stock. In 1999, we repaid $13.1 million of short-term and long-term debt.

        On December 26, 2000, we entered into a $32.0 million revolving credit facility with two commercial U.S. banks as co-lenders. Borrowings under this facility are collateralized by our assets and provide for discretionary advances up to 85% of eligible trade accounts receivable. As of December 31, 2001, borrowings available under the revolving credit facility were $26.1 million. The revolving credit facility requires the maintenance of certain financial and non-financial covenants. We were in compliance with these covenants as of December 31, 2001. As of December 31, 2001, there were no letters of credit outstanding. However, as of March 31, 2002, a letter of credit in the amount of $1.3 million was outstanding.

        We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, availability under our revolving credit facility, cash generated from operations and net proceeds from this offering will be sufficient to meet our working capital requirements for the foreseeable future.

Inflation

        To date, inflation has not had a material impact on our financial condition and results of operations.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

        In June 1999, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement on Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 137, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities — Deferral of the Effective Date of FASB Statement No. 133,” which defers the effective date of SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities.” SFAS No. 133, issued in June 1998, establishes accounting and reporting standards for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts and hedging activities. SFAS No. 133 requires an entity to recognize all derivatives as either assets or liabilities in the statement of financial position and measure those instruments at fair value. We adopted SFAS No. 133 beginning on January 1, 2001. The adoption of this standard did not have any impact on our financial position or results of operations.

        In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141, “Business Combinations.” SFAS No. 141 addresses financial accounting and reporting for business combinations. SFAS No. 141 is effective for all business combinations initiated after June 30, 2001 and eliminates the pooling-of-interests method of accounting for business combinations except for qualifying business combinations that were initiated prior to July 1, 2001. SFAS No. 141 also changes the criteria to recognize intangible assets apart from goodwill. We adopted SFAS No. 141 on July 1, 2001. We have historically used the purchase method to account for all business combinations and we do not believe adoption of SFAS No. 141 will materially impact our financial position or results of operations.

        In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets,” which requires that goodwill and certain intangibles will not be amortized. Instead, these assets will be reviewed annually for impairment and written down and charged to results of operations only in the periods in which the recorded value of goodwill and certain intangibles is more than its fair value. SFAS No. 142 applies to goodwill and certain intangible assets acquired prior to June 30, 2001. We adopted this statement on January 1, 2002. Adoption of SFAS No. 142 on January 1, 2002 had no impact on our financial statements. However, in the future, SFAS No. 142 will have the impact of reducing our non-cash amortization expense of goodwill and will have a material impact on our financial statements. The required impairment tests of goodwill may result in future period write-downs. Amortization of goodwill was

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$3.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001 and $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2000.

        The following table presents the impact of the new standards relating to goodwill amortization and related tax effects on operating income and net loss, as if they had been in effect for the years ended December 31, 2001 and 2000:

                                 
2001 2000


As Reported As Adjusted As Reported As Adjusted




(in thousands)
Income from operations
  $ 9,971     $ 13,080     $ 1,160     $ 1,652  
Net loss
    (5,244 )     (3,348 )     (3,556 )     (3,064 )
Net loss per share — basic and diluted
  $ (0.23 )   $ (0.14 )   $ (0.15 )   $ (0.13 )

Details of acquired intangible assets are as follows:

                                 
Amortizing Non-Amortizing


Gross Gross
Carrying Accumulated Carrying Accumulated
Amount Amortization Amount Amortization




(in thousands)
Software technology
  $ 4,701     $ 1,365     $     $  
Trademarks
                3,080        
Customer relationships
    7,170       588              
Goodwill
                38,697       3,593  
Other intangibles
    9,914       8,351              
     
     
     
     
 
Total
  $ 21,785     $ 10,304     $ 41,777     $ 3,593  
     
     
     
     
 

        In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations,” which applies to legal obligations associated with the retirement of a tangible long-lived asset that results from the acquisition, construction or development and/or the normal operation of a long-lived asset. Under SFAS No. 143, guidance is provided on measuring and recording the liability. Our adoption of SFAS No. 143 will be effective on January 1, 2003. We do not believe that the adoption of SFAS No. 143 will materially impact our financial position or results of operations.

        In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 144 “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” which addresses financial accounting and reporting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. While SFAS No. 144 supersedes SFAS No. 121, “Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of,” it removes goodwill from its scope and retains the requirements of SFAS No. 121 regarding the recognition of impairment losses on long-lived assets held for use. SFAS No. 144 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2001 and interim periods within those fiscal years. We do not believe the adoption of SFAS No. 144 will materially impact our financial position or results of operations.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Foreign Currency Risk

        Because we have operations in a number of countries and our service agreements in such countries are denominated in foreign currencies, we face exposure to adverse movements in foreign currency exchange rates. As currency rates change, translation of the income statements of our international entities from local currencies to U.S. dollars affects year-over-year comparability of operating results. We do not hedge translation risks because we generally reinvest the cash flows from operations outside North America. We do not utilize any derivative security instruments.

        Management estimates that a 10% change in foreign exchange rates would have impacted reported operating profit by approximately $4.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. This sensitivity

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analysis disregards the possibility that rates can move in opposite directions and that losses from one area may offset gains from another area.

Interest Rate Risk

        We earn interest income from our balances of cash and cash equivalents. This interest income is subject to market risk related to changes in interest rates, which primarily affects our investment portfolio. We invest in instruments that meet high credit quality standards, as specified in our investment policy. Our investment policy also limits the amount of credit exposure to any one issue, issuer and type of investment.

        As of December 31, 2001, our cash and cash equivalents consisted primarily of investments in money market accounts. Due to the conservative nature of our investment portfolio, a sudden change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the value of the portfolio. Management estimates that if the average yield of our investments decreased by 100 basis points, our interest income for the year ended December 31, 2001 would have decreased by approximately $0.1 million. This estimate assumes that the decrease occurred on the first day of 2001 and reduced the yield of each investment instrument by 100 basis points. The impact on our future interest income will depend largely on the gross amount of our investments and future changes in investment yields.

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BUSINESS

Overview of Our Company

        We are a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable our users to create, manage and publish architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) content. Our software solutions are used to design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets, such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. We focus on five vertical industries that deploy such assets: transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. In addition, we provide professional services for our software solutions, including implementation, integration, customization and training.

        The foundation of our software solutions is our design platform, MicroStation. MicroStation was originally developed in the mid-1980s by a team of developers led by Keith and Barry Bentley. Our solutions are widely used both by major engineering and architectural firms, including Bechtel Corporation, as well as by owner/operators of large constructed assets, including 46 U.S. state departments of transportation, Fincantieri Cantieri Nivali Italiani SpA, Union Bank of Switzerland, San Antonio City Public Service Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

        We generate revenues through a renewable subscription program, known as Bentley SELECT, as well as through perpetual licenses and services. Our subscriptions revenues consist of annual recurring fees that our users pay for Bentley SELECT. Coverage under Bentley SELECT includes the right to use our products on a concurrent license basis and access to maintenance and technical support, product updates, upgrades and enhancements. Bentley SELECT further offers our users a comprehensive relationship management vehicle that provides streamlined software purchasing arrangements as well as access to on-line services, industry-specific knowledge bases, content libraries, training sessions and special events. Since these benefits are only available through Bentley SELECT, most purchasers of perpetual licenses subscribe to Bentley SELECT. Subscriptions revenues include Bentley SELECT coverage for separately sold perpetual licenses. Subscriptions revenues also include annual and monthly term licenses under the Bentley SELECT subscription program. We began offering term licenses with the introduction of our Geopak software product lines in 1996. In April 2002, we expanded our subscription program to include monthly term licenses for additional Bentley software solutions and a comprehensive enterprise subscription program for our largest users. In 2001, over 60% of our total revenues were derived from our subscriptions. We generated revenues of $202.6 million in 2001, and approximately 48% of our total revenues were generated from operations outside North America in 2001. As of March 31, 2002, we had 1,145 employees operating from 70 offices in 38 countries.

Industry Background

        AEC content is critical to the design, construction and operation of large constructed assets, such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. AEC content consists of technical drawings, three-dimensional models, specifications, purchasing information and maintenance records, as well as relational data and indices. This content is typically created, used and shared by a large number of individuals from many different organizations throughout the lifecycle of the constructed asset, from design and construction through operation and maintenance.

        AEC content is typically not organized and maintained systematically, despite the requirement to maintain legal documents of record and the potential additional value to be derived from using such content in the operation of large constructed assets. While drawings are printed and then used in construction, changes made during and after construction are most often not captured digitally. What begins as electronic design ends as marked-up paper drawings, and the foundation for integrated, digital AEC content is lost.

        Participants in the design, construction and operation of large constructed assets require a solution that enables them to manage diverse, mission-critical AEC content and collaborate during all phases of the asset’s lifecycle. Collaboration across technical disciplines is complex and requires a solution that manages access, maintains revision history and tracks changes, including “as built” and “as maintained.”

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        Collaboration can lead to significant efficiencies by providing access to current AEC content, as well as enabling users to visualize the asset’s design, analyze real time impact, resolve design and construction issues and communicate specification changes. In addition, users seek a collaborative solution that allows AEC content to be published to multiple electronic and physical media in a format appropriate to each user. Collaboration can reduce design and construction time, lower project costs and result in assets that are more efficiently constructed and more easily operated.

        Users also require software solutions that are designed for the needs of their specific industries. Unlike solutions with a broad, generic approach, solutions that incorporate extensive industry knowledge and industry best practices are better able to meet these needs. For example, a firm that designs and constructs roadway systems requires a solution that supports design workflows for bridges, interchanges, overpasses, on-ramps and off-ramps.

        AEC software vendors currently offer either design solutions or generic collaborative solutions that manage information separate from design content. Without integrating design and collaboration, these solutions fail to address the long-term asset lifecycle needs of project participants, including contractors, owner/ operators and vendors. Moreover, these solutions significantly limit the usefulness of AEC content, either because they do not recognize attributes of AEC content or fail to support collaborative access to, and interaction with, AEC content.

        AEC design content is predominantly created in either DWG or DGN, the industry’s two leading and most widely accepted file formats. Large AEC projects typically involve the use of both file formats during the design and engineering phases, requiring significant work to translate files and frequently resulting in loss of important AEC content. As the work of one project participant is often relied upon by other participants, dual-formatted content significantly limits design and engineering efficiency, often resulting in errors and undependable file translations or reverting to the exchange of paper drawings or computer images thereof, instead of intelligent, queryable formats. Additionally, organizations that design, construct or operate large constructed assets have voluminous libraries of drawings and documents that date back many years, many of which are documents of record and must be maintained as a matter of law. While recent drawings and documents are often stored in various electronic formats, historical drawings are stored in libraries on paper, Mylar or microfilm. As a result, users require software solutions that accommodate digital content stored in either DWG or DGN file format, as well as legacy content currently stored on physical media.

        AEC content can provide additional value to users through interoperability and integration with other enterprise software applications that are utilized by project participants, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), procurement, supply chain management (SCM) and financial control systems. These benefits can only be achieved if the content contained in a design file is recognizable, and can be related to other useful information such as bills of material and schedules. A drawing on paper is a collection of lines and arcs, and replicating it on a computer screen adds little value. The building blocks of a design, or the components, must be associated to their real characteristics or attributes. For example, a pump in an oil refinery must be understood to be a pump, rather than a graphical representation of a pump, with dimensions, manufacturer part number, how it interacts with other components and other information. With such relational and semantic context, the AEC content can be utilized to automatically provide a bill of materials to an SCM system, generate a cost estimate for a financial control system and enable project teams to assess alternative scenarios in identifying and resolving design or engineering issues.

        According to International Data Corporation (IDC) research, total worldwide software license and maintenance revenues for AEC applications in 2001 were $2.138 billion and are forecast to grow to $4.072 billion by 2006 (IDC Worldwide Software Forecaster, March 2002). We believe that collaborative software solutions that integrate and manage AEC content represent an opportunity to solve problems not addressed by current AEC software.

        Organizations engaged in the design, construction and operation of large constructed assets require a software solution that facilitates efficient design while also allowing all project participants to communicate, collaborate and share information throughout an asset’s lifecycle. These organizations

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require solutions that are specifically tailored to meet their unique industry requirements and business processes. Many software applications do not adequately address the need for collaboration among project participants, provide the required discipline or industry specific tools or offer the reusability of content throughout the useful life of the asset. We believe that a substantial opportunity exists for software providers that address the full range of available AEC content and that can leverage such content for use within enterprise software applications.

Our Solution

        Our collaborative software solutions enable our users to maximize the value of AEC content by supporting an integrated approach to managing the lifecycle of a large constructed asset, from design and construction through operation and maintenance. The foundation of our solution is a single integrated design platform, MicroStation, that natively supports both the DWG and DGN file formats and is extended with our discipline-specific applications developed for the unique design challenges presented by the broad range of potential workflows that exist in our target industries. Our fully integrated collaboration servers manage and publish content created by MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications, as well as content created with other design and enterprise applications. We believe that our integrated approach facilitates the design and construction process, shortens project schedules, reduces overall project costs and facilitates the operation and management of the large constructed asset.

        The benefits of our solutions include:

  Comprehensive unified architecture. MicroStation is the foundation for our discipline-specific applications and is integrated with our collaboration servers into a comprehensive, unified architecture. Because our solutions are founded on a comprehensive, unified architecture, our users benefit from application integration and data interoperability and consistency. Our collaboration servers recognize AEC content at the component level and intelligently manage content based on a component’s descriptive attributes. For example, our piping application can produce a design of a piping system that will integrate seamlessly with a structure created with our architectural application, regardless of whether the applications are used simultaneously on the same computer by one person or independently by two people across a network. MicroStation V8, released in October 2001, provides native access to its own DGN file format as well as to the industry’s other leading format, DWG. This ability eliminates the need to translate between formats and manage resulting translation errors.
 
  Targeted vertical industry solutions. Our discipline-specific applications extend MicroStation’s creation capabilities with applications tailored to the design challenges of architectural and engineering disciplines. We offer discipline-specific applications for architectural design, civil engineering, geoengineering, facilities management and plant design, that incorporate extensive industry knowledge and industry best practices, and also integrate seamlessly with other Bentley products. These discipline-specific applications are developed utilizing the expertise of our employees, many of whom have spent substantial portions of their careers participating in projects within one or more of our target industries. We use combinations of discipline-specific applications to address the needs of users in five vertical industries: transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. Our focus on these vertical industry solutions enables our users to address unique workflow requirements encountered in these industries, while maintaining the integrity of AEC content.
 
  Collaboration for more efficiently constructed assets. Our collaboration servers enable project participants from disparate organizations in multiple locations to collaborate and share AEC content and expertise. Users of our collaboration servers are able to query and annotate designs, track change history and interface with accounting, procurement and other enterprise applications. By accurately tracking design history and providing easy access to AEC content, our software allows users to communicate effectively, streamline the design process, utilize

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  resources efficiently, improve design quality and reduce costs incurred over the lifecycle of a large constructed asset. For example, our software’s ability to track design history allows a particular portion of a design iteration to be traced to its origin and contributor, information normally lost but invaluable when resolving disputes or addressing complex design and construction situations.
 
  Incorporation of legacy AEC content. While new designs created with MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications are intelligent and created in a form immediately understood by our collaboration servers, our users have substantial volumes of historical documents of record in digital or hardcopy format that must also be managed, retained and made available, often as a matter of law. This is particularly valuable for applications related to vulnerability assessments and consequence management to assure the physical security of key infrastructure assets. Our software solutions enable our users to convert paper documents to digital form, index the document to describe its content, add intelligence and cross reference the digital components to other related data. These capabilities permit our users to benefit from AEC content that had previously been virtually inaccessible.
 
  Integrated digital content over the asset’s lifecycle. Our solutions enable the organization of AEC content related to the design, construction and maintenance of an asset. Our collaboration servers manage an integrated virtual model of an asset and associate it with descriptive content and other non-graphical content, providing an environment where changes due to construction, maintenance or other factors can be systematically and digitally recorded. By cohesively integrating previously disconnected and often non-digital AEC content, our solution prevents loss of mission critical information, simplifies access to AEC content and supports more effective management of large constructed assets.

Our Strategy

        Our objective is to be a leading provider of collaborative software solutions to the industries we have targeted. To achieve this objective we intend to pursue the following strategies:

  Focus on the vertical industries we serve. We focus on specific industries in which owner/operators derive substantial value from the operation of large constructed assets throughout their lifecycles. These industries include transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. We believe that industry experience and expertise are critical attributes sought by owner/operators when they select collaborative AEC software solutions. Our industry focus enables us to deliver tailored solutions that offer advantages in functionality and use of AEC content as compared to products offered by other software providers. In addition, we believe that our focus on specific industries makes our sales, marketing and product development efforts more efficient and effective in these targeted industry groups. We plan to devote substantial product development resources as well as additional sales and marketing resources in our efforts to expand our leadership position in each of our targeted vertical industries.
 
  Enhance and extend our collaborative software solutions. Our collaboration servers allow our users to maximize the value of large constructed assets by enabling the use, re-use and sharing of AEC content. Our content management and publishing products facilitate communication among project participants and non-engineers for purposes of building, maintaining, re-furbishing, repairing or operating these assets. We have invested significant research and development resources in our collaboration servers over the last three years and we intend to continue investing our resources to enhance this technology, as we believe collaboration servers will be a key component of our future growth.
 
  Grow our subscriptions revenues. In 2001, over 60% of our total revenues were derived from our subscriptions. In response to user demand, we have begun expanding Bentley SELECT to include monthly and annual term licenses for additional Bentley software solutions and a

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  comprehensive enterprise subscription program for our largest users. We have aligned our sales force compensation, pricing structure and marketing materials to increase the adoption of Bentley SELECT subscriptions. We believe the recurring nature of subscriptions provides stability and predictability to our revenues. We expect to offer additional subscription programs under Bentley SELECT and to increase the percentage of our revenues derived from recurring subscriptions revenues.
 
  Increase our direct sales and support capabilities. While historically we had used a network of independent channel partners to reach our users, during the last several years we have been increasing our direct sales and support capabilities. This shift has been part of our strategy to gain more direct control of our largest customers and to maximize our opportunities with these accounts. In 2001, we began selling and delivering perpetual licenses directly to our users in North America as opposed to indirectly though our channel partners. This plan will be phased in globally in 2002. In 2003, we intend to begin servicing certain of our largest accounts exclusively with our direct sales and support personnel while our channel partners focus on growing our business outside of these defined accounts. We expect to continue to enhance our direct sales and support capabilities and adjust the role of our channel partners to maximize our opportunities.
 
  Expand our professional services. As our products have evolved from desktop applications to broader enterprise and web-based solutions, our users’ need for implementation, integration, customization and training services has also grown. To date, such professional services have largely been performed by our channel partners. Our collaborative solutions will require a greater degree of professional services and we intend to take a more active role in the delivery and management of these services. We expect to continue to expand our services capabilities, grow its contribution to revenues and position our services as a value independent of related software sales.
 
  Grow through strategic acquisitions. To date, we have acquired and successfully integrated companies and/or technologies that strategically supplement our product offerings within our targeted vertical industries. We expect to continue to use acquisitions to expand our product offerings, accelerate our product development process and enhance our leadership position within our targeted industries.

Our Products

        We offer three types of products that enable our users to create, manage and publish AEC content. Our products include:

  MicroStation;
 
  Discipline-specific applications; and
 
  Collaboration servers.

        We offer our software through a renewable subscription program, known as Bentley SELECT, as well as through perpetual licenses. Our subscriptions revenues consist of annual recurring fees that our users pay for Bentley SELECT. Coverage under Bentley SELECT includes the right to use our products on a concurrent license basis and access to maintenance and technical support, product updates, upgrades and enhancements. Bentley SELECT further offers our users a comprehensive relationship management vehicle that provides streamlined software purchasing arrangements as well as access to on-line services, industry-specific knowledge bases, content libraries, training sessions and special events. Subscriptions revenues include Bentley SELECT coverage for separately sold perpetual licenses. Subscriptions revenues also include annual and monthly term licenses under the Bentley SELECT subscription program. We began offering term licenses with the introduction of our Geopak software product lines in 1996. In April 2002, we expanded our subscription program to include annual and monthly term licenses for additional Bentley software solutions and a comprehensive enterprise subscription program for our largest users.

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        Certain of our discipline-specific applications are available as portfolio subscriptions that address the needs of specific engineering and architectural disciplines within our targeted industries. Currently, we offer portfolio solutions for road design, rail design, civil engineering, geoengineering, plant design and manufacturing facilities design.

               MicroStation

        Our design platform, MicroStation, is a graphical design environment used to create, visualize, query and publish intelligent two-dimensional drawings, maps and three-dimensional models. Drawings, maps and models are created using vector graphics and may incorporate or be associated with other data such as images, aerial photographs and database records.

        MicroStation is used for architectural, engineering and analysis workflows necessary to support the design, construction and operation of large constructed assets such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. We bundle MicroStation with several companion products that can be configured with MicroStation to address specific workflows, including configurations for schematic design, three-dimensional design, civil engineering and geographic features.

        Drawings, maps and models created on the MicroStation platform preserve the full range of AEC content in an easily accessible, searchable form. MicroStation V8 offers native support for DWG files created on competitive platforms, allowing users to open, modify, display and save files that were created in either the DWG file format or MicroStation’s DGN file format.

        MicroStation serves as the single integrated operating platform for our discipline-specific applications. MicroStation’s standards-based architecture enables users to simplify data management and ensures application integration and consistency. MicroStation is delivered with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), including Visual Basic for Applications, that are used by end users and third parties to customize and extend its capabilities. The discipline-specific applications typically support the same APIs.

               Discipline-Specific Applications

        Each architectural and engineering discipline requires applications that are tailored to its unique design challenges and that deliver more than simple computerized drafting. Civil engineering disciplines required to design a roadway, for example, are very different from the architectural, structural, piping and other disciplines necessary to design a manufacturing plant. Our discipline-specific applications extend MicroStation’s creation capabilities to enable automated, directed and intelligent design, specific to the unique requirements of each discipline. Our discipline-specific applications are fully integrated with each other, offering seamless interoperability in a single design environment.

  Architectural Design. Our architectural design applications are delivered with libraries of parametric building parts and support Internet links to vendor and manufacturer product catalogs. All aspects of the design are integrated into a three-dimensional model, and a rich set of visualization and simulation tools provides dynamic and photorealistic reviews. Traditional drawings, bills of materials and other reports can be extracted from the model, which acts as a geometrically indexed database of AEC content.
 
  Civil Engineering. Our civil engineering applications are used to design, construct, maintain and operate transportation infrastructure. These applications are used for roadway and corridor design, widening and resurfacing, survey site design and storm water removal, hydrology, earthworks, bridge modeling, interchange design, rail design and maintenance. Users of these products create plans, plan profiles, cross sections, contour maps, digital terrain models and alignments, information generally necessary to plan and support construction. We also offer transportation operation and maintenance solutions for routing and permitting of oversize and overweight vehicles, automatic traffic surveillance and control and right of way land acquisition and planning.
 
  Geoengineering. Governments and utilities use our geoengineering products for corridor mapping, network planning and management, engineering work orders, land base mapping, asset

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  management, public works, tax assessment, land register, land use management, and water and wastewater management. Our geoengineering applications support document conversion, mapping, imaging and spatial analysis. Because our discipline-specific applications are integrated, our users are able to conduct engineering, architecture and geoengineering within the same design environment.
 
  Facilities. Automotive manufacturers, airports, banks and other occupants of large industrial and business complexes use our facilities applications to optimize factory floor layout, allocate and plan space and track and manage assets. Our facilities management applications are used to design, model and visualize facilities, associate asset records to their location and manage asset transactions. By providing quick and easy access to detailed and up to date AEC content pertaining to the facility and its associated assets, these applications help corporate and industrial users to optimize their use of space and lower operating costs.
 
  Plant Design. Our plant design applications enable piping and electrical systems design, instrumentation design and maintenance, equipment modeling, schematic and isometric drawing and interference detection. Our component-based architecture ensures that individual parts can be identified and intelligently manipulated. For example, a conduit for electrical cables can be used with related components created by other discipline-specific applications, without the loss of intelligence of the conduit component. Additionally, our applications support photorealistic simulation and animation of proposed changes, automatic detection of interference and other problems and dynamically projected models to specified construction milestones. These features provide project managers with actual versus planned construction comparisons, analysis of constructability issues, improved design and procurement strategies and alternatives for resolving design conflicts.

               Collaboration Servers

        Our collaboration servers consist of content management servers and content publishing servers.

        Our content management servers:

  act as a repository for AEC content created by our products, as well as for content created by other design and business products;
 
  enable synchronization between architectural and engineering disciplines and project participants;
 
  govern access to AEC content, ensuring security and enforcing data integrity;
 
  organize and index the information to support component and file-based queries; and
 
  integrate design, scheduling, procurement, operation, maintenance and other data from multiple, disparate systems, and allow it to be managed as though it were from a single, unified source.

        Our content publishing servers:

  render and print AEC designs as high-fidelity, large format drawings on local or remote devices;
 
  publish maps, models and high-resolution images over the network and Internet;
 
  support graphical and attribute-based queries and seamless integration with other data sources, such as an Oracle database;
 
  support Web development to enable users to create rich Web interfaces that organize the presentation of content through map, model or other interface paradigms;
 
  support streaming and other techniques to enable users to interactively navigate extremely large data sets, often gigabytes in size, even over low bandwidths;
 
  compose AEC content and deliver in appropriate formats to ERP, document management, procurement and other enterprise software systems; and
 
  deliver AEC content automatically based upon some event such as a date or workflow state.

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Technology and Product Architecture

        Our software solutions are based on a single unified architecture and enable our users to create, manage and publish AEC content. MicroStation and discipline-specific applications are used to create AEC content and our collaboration servers are used to manage and publish such content. Our collaboration servers are accessed by users of MicroStation and related discipline-specific applications, as well as by many additional users that need access to AEC content.

(AEC FLOW CHART)

        Data generated by MicroStation and discipline-specific applications is stored in both files and relational databases. Data that is primarily graphical is stored in design files. The design file format used by MicroStation is known as the DGN format. With MicroStation V8, the DGN format was extended to store more complex data, track the history of graphical components, embed information using XML and store a superset of the data that is stored in other design file formats, particularly DWG, the other leading file format. MicroStation is the only platform that provides native support for both file formats. DGN files have mechanisms that allow nongraphical data associated with graphics to be stored either within the file itself, or linked to external relational databases.

        Our collaboration servers store the design files and other files typically associated with AEC projects, such as Microsoft Word files and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and keep metadata about those files in a relational database such as Oracle. The metadata about these files includes file location, when and by whom revisions have been made, access rights, cross-referenced files and other similar information. The relational database may also contain an index of other relevant data contained within design files. The client software used to create the content connects to the collaboration server to request that data be delivered to the local computer for modification. Users who are not editors, but viewers of the content, can use thin, browser-based clients to request that the collaboration server deliver the appropriate data to their browser window.

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        Certain of our collaboration servers are designed to integrate and publish information from multiple sources, including design files, other application files such as spreadsheets and data stored in integrated databases. Information is collected from those sources using “adapters,” and business rules are defined in a macro language to relate the disparate data from those multiple sources. For example, the components in a design file can be linked to procurement data stored in a relational database and to scheduling information from a project schedule database to deduce and graphically display the components that will delay the project unless their delivery date is expedited.

        MicroStation, our discipline-specific applications and collaboration servers have been developed using a combination of the C, C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, SQL and Java programming languages. Our users and third parties use documented APIs to extend and customize the applications.

        MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications require a Microsoft Windows operating system. We currently support Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Our collaboration servers consist of server programs and a variety of client programs. Databases can run on either Microsoft Windows or Unix-based server systems.

        Additionally, we offer an on-line project collaboration site to our Bentley SELECT subscribers. This site provides a neutral place for distinct organizations to collaborate and to coordinate project communication and data sharing. Our collaboration servers include similar functionality for users who prefer in-house collaboration networks.

Our Services

        We offer services including implementation, integration, customization and training, which are generally billed on a time and materials basis. As of March 31, 2002, there were 214 employees in our professional services organization, consisting of the following:

  Bentley Consulting. Our consultants offer our users extensive industry knowledge and experience, and are integral to the successful implementation of our solutions. Our consultants work with our users to implement and integrate our solutions and customize to address our users’ unique workflow requirements or enterprise computing environment where necessary. Our consultants are aligned with our targeted vertical industries in order to support our users’ needs. We have also designated certain channel partners as Bentley Integrators to provide implementation and support services for our products. These channel partners work with us through the Bentley Integration Network to integrate our solutions with technologies from other vendors and offer a variety of outsourced services to our users.
 
  The Bentley Institute. Our professional services team, together with our global network of certified training partners, deliver training programs for our users, from core applications and systems administration to advanced techniques in discipline-specific applications, as well as a range of customized training packages.
 
  Technical Support Group. Our Technical Support Group provides technical services, technical operations and program development to our users worldwide. There are three support centers, located in Exton, Pennsylvania, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands and Melbourne, Australia, providing 24-hour support for our Bentley SELECT subscribers.

Our Users

        Our users design, engineer, build and operate large constructed assets, such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. We focus on five vertical industries that deploy such assets: transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government.

        Currently, there are more than 315,000 licensed commercial users of our design platform, MicroStation, excluding licenses distributed for academic, training or demonstration purposes. Our customer base is geographically diverse with nearly half of our total revenues generated outside of North America in 2001. In 2001, over 330 customers contributed more than $100,000 each to our revenues,

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accounting for approximately 48% of total revenues, and nearly 1,300 customers contributed more than $25,000 each to our revenues, accounting for approximately 70% of total revenues. No single customer accounted for over 1% of total revenues in 2001.

        Our user base consists of owner/ operators of large constructed assets and contracting firms — architects, engineers, constructors and consultants – that provide design, procurement, construction and related services to owner/ operators. Approximately two-thirds of our MicroStation licenses are registered by owner/ operators, approximately one-third of which are within government agencies.

               Contracting Firms

        Most of the largest contracting firms are global and serve multiple markets. The top 500 U.S.-headquartered contracting firms are ranked annually by Engineering News Record (ENR), a McGraw-Hill publication, on the basis of their design billings. Among the top 50 of these contracting firms, 38 firms contributed at least $100,000 each to our revenues in 2001. The following are the number of Bentley users among all ENR categories that contributed more than $100,000 each to our revenues in 2001:

               16 of the top 20 in industrial process and petrochemical

               19 of the top 20 in transportation
               19 of the top 20 in power
               11 of the top 20 in hazardous waste
               8 of the top 20 in general building
               12 of the top 20 in sewer/waste
               13 of the top 20 in water
               16 of the top 20 in telecommunications
               12 of the top 20 in manufacturing

        The following list sets forth our ten largest contracting firm customers in North America and internationally based on 2001 total revenues:

                 
North America

Bechtel Group, Inc.   CH2M Hill, Incorporated   Fluor Corp.   HDR Engineering, Inc.   HNTB Corporation
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.   Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.   Peter Kiewit Sons   URS Corporation   The Washington Group International, Inc.
International

Arup Group Ltd. (UK)   Foster and Partners(UK)   Halcrow Group(UK)   JGC (Japan)   Kvaerner Goup (Norway)
EPC Latina Americana S.A. (Brazil)   Takenaka Corporation (Japan)   Technip Coflexip (France)   Wood Group Ltd. (UK)   WS Atkins PLC(UK)

          Owner/Operators

        Transportation. We are a leading provider of software solutions for the planning, design, construction and operation of transportation infrastructure, as well as intelligent transportation systems. Our transportation owner/operator users own and operate road and rail systems, airports and seaports.

        Manufacturing Plants. We are a leading provider of software solutions for process and discrete manufacturing industries, including automotive, biotech, chemicals, electronics, food and beverage, mineral and metals, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, power generation, pulp and paper and shipbuilding. We provide a range of integrated applications for physical and conceptual plant design, construction and facility operations and for related information management.

        Building. We are a leading provider of software solutions to owner/ operators of commercial and institutional facilities who utilize our solutions for the design and construction of efficiently and timely-built facilities, at reduced construction and operating costs, and for space management and planning.

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        Utilities. We are a leading provider of software solutions for utility organizations around the world, with a focus on planning, designing and engineering, operating and maintaining “outside plant” networks. Our products are used for a variety of applications, including rights-of-way mapping, network provisioning, engineering work orders and asset management.

        Government. We are a leading provider of software solutions to municipal and central government organizations around the world, for public works, defense and environmental applications such as parcel mapping and land registry, water and wastewater network management, and facilities engineering.

        The following lists the ten owner/operators within the transportation, manufacturing plants, utilities and government industries, and the owner/operators within the building industry, that contributed the highest amounts to our total revenues in 2001, in each case in excess of $100,000:

                 
Transportation Manufacturing Plants Building Utilities Government





46 U.S. state departments of transportation

Banverket (Sweden)

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

Deutsche Bahn AG (Germany)

DSB (Denmark)

Federal Aviation Administration

Fraport AG (Germany)

Group EGIS (France)

London Underground Limited (UK)

New York City Transit Authority
  Alstom (France)

DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Duke Energy Corporation

EQUATE
Petrochemical (Kuwait)

Fincantieri Cantieri
Navali Italiani SpA
(Italy)

Merck

Pemex (Mexico)

Petrobras (Brazil)

Saudi Aramco

Siemens KWV (Germany)
  Hong Kong SAR Government (China)

Lucent Technologies

New York City Housing Authority

Starbucks Coffee

Union Bank of Switzerland (Switzerland)
  Bell South Corporation

Colt Telecom (UK)

Consolidated Edison Inc.

Consumers Energy

EDF GDF (France)

KPN Holding (Netherlands)

San Antonio City Public Service Board

SBC Communications Inc.

Telewest Communications plc (UK)

Verizon/GTE
  BAW Ilmenau (Germany)

City of Minneapolis

City of Toronto (Canada)

Conseils Generaux & Regionaux (France)

LARIS Center (Russia)

Ministere de la Defense (France)

San Diego Data Processing Corporation

U.S. Air Force and Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Federal Government

Case Studies

 
Bechtel Corporation

        Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms, is the prime contractor for the River Protection Project Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) in Hanford, Washington. The WTP is part of the government’s solution to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) single largest nuclear waste issue, the Hanford Tank Farm, which contains approximately 53 million gallons, in 177 underground tanks, of radioactive chemical and nuclear waste from reprocessing operations. Concerned about the deterioration of the tanks and the potential for radioactive waste to seep into the nearby Columbia River, the DOE commissioned the WTP in order to clean the site and securely store the nuclear waste. The total cost of the project, including design and construction, is estimated to be approximately $4 billion over 10 years. The project will use 250,000 cubic yards of concrete, 58,000 tons of reinforcing and structural steel, 1,500 tons of ductwork, nearly one million linear feet of pipe and 6 million feet of wire and cable.

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        After being named the prime contractor on the WTP in December 2000, Bechtel desired a set of software solutions to streamline the design and construction of the project, including:

  •  construction simulation applications to preview design changes and improve workflows;
 
  •  collaboration servers to manage AEC content throughout the project’s lifecycle; and
 
  •  an integrated platform for employees located in multiple areas to share data.

        Bechtel selected our solutions for the WTP because it believes our discipline-specific applications best address its architectural, structural, HVAC and other project requirements. Bechtel recently implemented our software to perform three-dimensional graphic modeling for construction design and simulation, with a goal to reduce project costs by improving constructability and minimizing change at the project site. Bechtel also uses our collaboration servers to manage, integrate and maintain over 25,000 files created in multiple applications for various disciplines. In addition, our collaboration servers enable project participants to query, search and leverage AEC content over the plant’s lifecycle, an important requirement of the DOE. For the design and construction of the WTP, Bechtel currently uses MicroStation, 15 discipline-specific applications and our collaboration servers, employing over 850 licenses.

        Bechtel standardized on the MicroStation platform in 1991 and currently owns nearly 3,000 MicroStation licenses world-wide.

          Pentagon Renovation Program

        The Pentagon, which is the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, is the world’s largest low-rise office building and accommodates a daily population of approximately 23,000 employees. Since its original construction in 1943, the Pentagon has never undergone a major renovation. However, in 1991, approval was granted to begin the Pentagon Renovation Program (PenRen) in order to meet current health, fire and life safety codes and provide reliable electrical, air conditioning and ventilation services. PenRen is a long-term renovation project that entails more than 6,000,000 square feet of space and a multibillion-dollar budget. As part of this project, PenRen initiated the first comprehensive effort to standardize and organize all AEC content created in the Pentagon’s 58-year history. PenRen sought a solution that provided the most cost-effective way to:

  •  standardize the process by which AEC models are created;
  •  access AEC content in real-time to support renovation decisions; and
  •  utilize AEC content throughout the lifecycle of the facility.

        PenRen uses our MicroStation platform to integrate considerable amounts of data into cohesive three-dimensional images. MicroStation enables PenRen to gather and exchange graphic images and notational data; draw and distribute construction designs; provide animated three-dimensional models and presentations; and coordinate AEC content with subcontractors, supervisors and operations staff. PenRen utilizes MicroStation, along with third party solutions, to generate AEC content that supports the simulation of the movement of people, furniture and equipment, resulting in fewer disruptions and minimized costs. Our products play a central role in the Pentagon’s long-term facility and infrastructure management plan by allowing easy access to AEC content over the life of the facility.

        In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon, MicroStation-based engineering models of the Pentagon quickly produced detailed structural drawings for use by rescue crews, structural engineers and law enforcement officers.

          New York State Department of Transportation

        The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) manages a large and complex transportation system with over 110,000 highway miles, 17,000 bridges, 5,000 rail miles, 456 aviation facilities and 12 major ports. Prior to implementing our solutions, the NYSDOT managed its AEC content either manually or through a variety of internally developed systems. The NYSDOT experienced significant challenges in efficiently creating and managing AEC content, communicating project changes in

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real-time to project participants located in multiple sites and providing timely and easy access to relevant information.

        The NYSDOT began utilizing our solutions in 1987 with an initial purchase of 100 MicroStation licenses and added 125 licenses of our roadway design solution in 1989. By 2001, NYSDOT held 600 licenses of MicroStation, 325 licenses of our roadway design solution and 800 licenses of our network plotting application. In 2002, NYSDOT entered into a five-year, $5.2 million enterprise subscription agreement with us, which provides access to our full suite of collaborative software solutions, as well as our consulting and training services. The NYSDOT uses MicroStation and our discipline-specific applications to design and support multi-billion dollar capital projects annually and our collaboration servers to improve production workflow and standardize technical drawings. NYSDOT will use our collaboration servers to organize and provide security for its 7,000 active and archived projects, consisting of more than 300,000 files. The tight integration and support of these solutions enable the NYSDOT to efficiently complete a greater number of projects while utilizing fewer resources.

          Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture

        Bligh Voller Nield, a MicroStation user since 1991, is one of Australia’s largest architecture practices. Bligh Voller Nield joined forces with a leading UK-based architectural firm, Lobb Partnership, to form a team of sports facility specialists called Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture (BLSA). In 1996, BLSA won the bid to design, build and operate Stadium Australia, the largest Olympic stadium ever built. A challenging design feature of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Stadium was the translucent, saddle-shaped roof, which was designed to effectively shade and protect spectators, allow maximum natural light for athletes and provide an environment for optimal turf growth. Another design consideration for the stadium was the objective to reduce seating capacity by over 25% following completion of the Olympics, to save on future maintenance costs. BLSA was seeking a solution that had three-dimensional simulation capabilities to review numerous versions of the project prior to construction and a collaboration platform for project participants and contractors to share data seamlessly.

        BLSA used our three-dimensional design capabilities to assist in designing and building Stadium Australia, including producing accurate drawings and models, automating engineering tasks and optimizing construction schedules. Using our three-dimensional models before construction began, BLSA was able to simulate the effects of light on the playing field and stands by creating a video with photo realistic animations containing “time-lapse” pieces for sunlight and shadow effects. In addition, our three-dimensional models simulated the phased seating reduction that was to follow the end of the Olympics. Our solutions allowed BLSA to explore multiple versions of the general stadium design, enabling collaboration and communication between various members of the design and construction teams. Construction of Stadium Australia began in September 1996, was completed three months ahead of schedule and successfully met budget guidelines.

Sales and Marketing

        We market and sell our products, subscriptions and services globally, through a combination of a direct sales force and channel partners.

        Our direct sales force and services organization is organized geographically into 11 territories. Five of these territories report to the Vice President of North America Operations and the remaining six report to the Senior Vice President of International Operations. In North America, in addition to our headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, we have 11 sales offices. Our international operations are headquartered in The Netherlands and we have 58 sales offices in 35 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin and South America. In addition to our regionally-based sales force, we have supplemental industry-based teams of senior-level personnel who focus on opportunities in our targeted vertical industries.

        We also utilize a network of independent channel partners that provide sales, service and support to their assigned accounts and are responsible for developing new opportunities. Among our channel partners

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is a select group known as Bentley Integrators, which provides implementation and support services for our products. We own a minority equity interest or have an option to acquire a minority equity interest in 9 of our 11 Bentley Integrators. Our North American operations include 45 channel partners, of which 6 are Bentley Integrators, and our operations outside North America include 239 channel partners, of which 5 are Bentley Integrators.

        From 1987 through 1994, our products were distributed exclusively through Intergraph Corporation. In 1995 we began to develop a network of channel partners and a direct sales function to distribute our products other than through Intergraph and Intergraph continued distribution of our products on a non-exclusive basis. Over the past several years, we have increased our direct sales and support capabilities, focused on a reduced number of high quality channel partners and revised their compensation structure. In 2001 in North America, we further enhanced our direct relationship with our users by selling and delivering directly as opposed to indirectly through our channel partners. This change will be phased in globally during 2002. In February 2002, we announced our latest efforts to enhance our direct end user relationships by servicing certain of our largest accounts exclusively with our direct sales and support personnel while our channel partners focus on growing our business outside of these defined accounts. This change is aimed at properly deploying our limited sales and service resources toward the maximum number of opportunities. We plan to implement this new plan in 2003.

        Our marketing programs, developed corporately and executed locally, are driven by our effort to learn continuously about our users and their needs to tailor our products to their specific industries and interests. We focus on existing accounts and the potential of those accounts to purchase additional Bentley solutions by communicating our corporate mission to retain and grow subscriptions revenues and by supporting the sales efforts of our direct sales force and channel partners. Our marketing efforts include industry-focused trade shows and Bentley sponsored seminars, general and industry relevant electronic newsletters, newsgroups and Web sites, the annual international user conference and local user group functions, editorial coverage and trade advertising. Our Bentley Education Network promotes curriculum development in academic courses relating to our products within colleges, universities and other educational institutions worldwide.

Research and Development

        Since inception, we have devoted significant resources to develop our products and services. We believe our future success depends in large part on continuing innovation and rapid development. Our total research and development expenses were $40.5 million in 2001, $35.3 million in 2000 and $34.0 million in 1999. As of March 31, 2002, our research and development organization consisted of 333 employees. Our principal development center is in Exton, Pennsylvania, with other centers in Huntsville, Alabama, Miami, Florida, Turku, Finland and Quebec City, Canada. We expect to continue to devote substantial resources to our research and development activities.

Competition

        The market for our software products and services has been and continues to be intensely competitive. We expect additional competition from established as well as emerging software companies. Our competitors vary in size and in the scope of the products and services they offer and include well-established companies that have larger installed user bases. We encounter competition from a number of sources, including:

  technology companies providing content creation, management and publishing in the vertical industries that we target, including transportation, manufacturing plants, building, utilities and government. These include Autodesk, Intergraph (which is one of our principal stockholders), CadCentre (Aveva Group), Dassault Systemes, Eaglepoint, Nemetschek, Graphisoft, ESRI and Siemens, among others.
 
  vendors of factory planning solutions, including mechanical computer aided design, such as Dassault Systemes and Electronic Data Systems Corporation;

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  vendors of product lifecycle management solutions, such as Agile, MatrixOne and SAP;
 
  generalized content management, document management and publishing vendors, such as Documentum, FileNet and Open Text Corporation;
 
  horizontal collaborative, enterprise software vendors, such as Microsoft Corporation and Oracle;
 
  systems integrators, who may advocate for alternative approaches or competitive solutions; and
 
  “in house” information technology departments or local technology providers that may develop technology that provides some or all of the functionality of our products and services.

        Some of the products from vendors targeting the same vertical industries we target are built upon our design platform, MicroStation, such as applications offered by Intergraph. Intergraph also offers applications on its own platform technologies such as SmartPlant and GeoMedia. Other competing products are built upon other design platforms, such as AutoCAD and other proprietary platforms. To some degree, vertical application competition is derived from a design platform decision. Application vendors are typically very focused on serving their target industries and compete very aggressively.

        We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting our market include:

  new product and technology introductions;
 
  product features, functionality, performance and price;
 
  availability, completeness and integration of discipline-specific applications;
 
  collaborative capabilities among project participants;
 
  product enhancements;
 
  ease of integration and speed of implementation;
 
  knowledge of a customer’s industry;
 
  level of customer service and training;
 
  sales and marketing efforts; and
 
  company reputation.

        Although we believe our solutions currently compete favorably with respect to these factors, we may not be able to maintain our competitive position against current and potential competitors, especially those with significantly greater financial, marketing, service, support, technical and other resources. Maintaining and growing our market share depends heavily upon our success in innovating, enhancing current products and developing or acquiring new products. Emerging technologies can disruptively change the competitive landscape and can permit new and strong competitors to emerge or allow existing competitors to strengthen their positions. Increased competition may impair our ability to maintain market share and may result in price reductions and reduced revenues and profit margins, any of which would harm our business.

Intellectual Property

        Our success and ability to compete is dependent in part on our ability to develop and maintain the proprietary aspects of our technology without infringing the proprietary rights of others. We rely primarily on a combination of contract, patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws as well as other measures, including confidentiality agreements, to protect our proprietary information. Existing copyright laws afford only limited protection. We cannot guarantee that these protections will be adequate or that our competitors will not independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our technology. In addition, the laws of certain countries in which our software products are or may be licensed do not protect our software products and intellectual property rights to the same extent as the

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laws of the United States. As of March 31, 2002, we had 6 issued patents and 22 pending patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

        We integrate third-party software into certain of our products. In particular, we license the following software, which is incorporated into MicroStation:

  the Parasolids solids modeling library from Unigraphics Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corporation, which license expires in October 2005; and
 
  the OpenDWG toolkit from the OpenDWG Alliance, which is subject to a perpetual license.

        We may not be able to renew these or other third-party licenses or to develop or purchase alternative technology. Even if licenses for third-party software or licenses for alternative technology are available to us, they may not be available on commercially reasonable terms. If we cannot maintain or acquire licenses for important third-party software or develop or license similar technology on a timely or commercially reasonable basis, our business, financial condition and operating results will be seriously harmed.

        We do not believe our software products, third-party software products we offer under sublicense agreements, our trademarks or our other proprietary rights infringe the proprietary rights of third parties. However, we cannot guarantee that third parties will not assert infringement claims against us with respect to current or future software products or that any such assertion may not require us to enter into royalty arrangements or result in costly litigation.

        Our license agreements with our users contain provisions designed to limit the exposure to potential product liability claims. It is possible, however, that the limitation of liability provisions contained in these license agreements may not be valid as a result of future federal, state or local laws or ordinances or unfavorable judicial decisions. Although we have not experienced any material product liability claims to date, the license and support of our software for use in mission critical applications creates the risk of a claim being successfully pursued against us. Damages or injunctive relief resulting under such a successful claim could seriously harm our business.

Employees

        As of March 31, 2002, we had 1,145 full time employees, including 507 in sales and marketing, 333 in research and development, 214 in professional services and user support and 91 in administration. Our performance depends in significant part on our ability to attract, train and retain highly qualified personnel. None of our employees are represented by a labor union and we believe that our relations with our employees are good.

Facilities

        Our corporate headquarters and executive offices are in Exton, Pennsylvania, where we own two adjacent office buildings aggregating approximately 78,000 square feet. We also lease a European regional headquarters in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. We believe our current facilities are adequate for our needs for the foreseeable future.

Legal Proceedings

        From time to time we become involved in litigation arising out of operations in the normal course of business. As of the date of this prospectus, we do not believe the outcome of any pending legal proceeding of which we are a party will have a material adverse effect on our operating results or financial position.

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MANAGEMENT

Directors and Executive Officers

        The following table sets forth information with respect to our directors and executive officers as of March 31, 2002:

             
Name Age Position



Greg Bentley
    46     Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Keith A. Bentley
    43     Director and Co-Chief Technology Officer
Barry J. Bentley, Ph.D. 
    45     Director and Co-Chief Technology Officer
Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr. 
    52     Senior Vice President, General Manager, Bentley Software
Ted Lamboo
    44     Senior Vice President, International Operations
David G. Nation
    49     Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary
Malcolm S. Walter
    48     Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Head of Field Operations
Kirk B. Griswold
    40     Director
Jay D. Seid
    41     Director

        Greg Bentley has served as President and Chairman of the Board since June 1996 and Chief Executive Officer since August 2000. Prior to joining us in 1991, Mr. Bentley founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Devon Systems International, Inc., a provider of financial trading software. In 1987, that company was acquired by SunGard Data Systems, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed information technology provider. Mr. Bentley continues to serve as a director of SunGard and a member of its Audit Committee. Mr. Bentley holds a bachelor’s degree in Decision Sciences and a M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

        Keith A. Bentley is one of our co-founders and has served as Co-Chief Technology Officer since March 2002 and prior thereto he served as Chief Technology Officer since August 2000. He has also served as a director and an executive officer since our inception in 1984. Mr. Bentley was our President until 1996 and our Chief Executive Officer until August 2000. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a M.A. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.

        Barry J. Bentley, Ph.D. is one of our co-founders and has served as Co-Chief Technology Officer since March 2002. He has served as a director and an executive officer since our inception in 1984. He served as Executive Vice President from June 1996 to March 2002 and is involved with the planning and development of our software products and technology. From September 1984 to June 1996, Dr. Bentley served as Chairman of the Board. His software development career dates back to 1979, when he co-founded and served as Vice President of Dynamic Solutions Corporation, a software firm. Dr. Bentley holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

        Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr. has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Bentley Software since August 2000. Bentley Software is our division that is responsible for the strategic direction and management of all of our software products and development activities. From June 1999 to August 2000, Mr. Cleveland served as Senior Vice President of our Model Engineering Business Group. He originally joined us in December 1997 when we acquired Jacobus Technology, which he founded and served as its President from its inception in 1991 until June 1999. Before founding Jacobus Technology, Mr. Cleveland had a 20-year career with Bechtel Corporation, where he last served as Manager of Automation Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

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        Ted Lamboo has served as Senior Vice President, International Operations since January 2000. In that capacity, he defines the overall strategy for expansion in regions outside North America, as well as ensuring continued local-language support for users from diverse countries. From September 1994 through December 1997, Mr. Lamboo served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Bentley Europe, Middle East and Africa and from January 1998 to January 2000 he served as President, Bentley Asia/ Pacific. Previously, Mr. Lamboo served for 13 years at Intergraph Europe, the European headquarters of Intergraph Corporation. He holds a M.S. in Geodetic Engineering from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and several post-graduate diplomas in Computer Engineering and Development.

        David G. Nation has served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary since December 1995. In addition to his management of our legal affairs, Mr. Nation supervises our human resources department and much of our business development and financial activities. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Continental Medical Systems, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed company. Prior to 1991, he was a partner at the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

        Malcolm S. Walter has served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President since October 1999 and Head of Field Operations since March 2002. In addition to his duties as CFO, he has had responsibility for the functions of a chief operating officer for our global sales and marketing organization since August 2000. He also manages certain back office functions supporting our sales organization and operations. In the four years prior to his joining us in October 1999, Mr. Walter was Chief Financial Officer for R&B, Inc., a Nasdaq listed company and a worldwide distributor of automotive parts for aftermarket repair. Previously, Mr. Walter held positions in finance and operations with several technology companies. Mr. Walter is a CPA and worked for Arthur Andersen for six years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Computer Science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

        Kirk B. Griswold has served as a director since April 2002. Mr. Griswold co-founded and has served as a Partner since May 1996 of Argosy Investment Partners, L.P., an investment company specializing in small and lower middle market companies. Since November 1990, he also has served as Managing Director of Odyssey Capital Group, L.P., a private investment fund affiliated with Argosy Investment Partners, L.P. Mr. Griswold holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Virginia and a M.B.A. in both Management and Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

        Jay D. Seid has served as a director since June 1999. Mr. Seid has been a Managing Director of Bachow & Associates, Inc. since May 1997. From December 1992 through May 1997, he was a Vice President of Bachow & Associates, Inc. Previously, Mr. Seid practiced corporate law at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen. Mr. Seid currently serves on the board of directors of Paradigm Geophysical Ltd. and Berger Holdings, Ltd. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics and Art History from Rutgers University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

        Messrs. Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley are brothers. Raymond and Richard Bentley, who work at our company, are also brothers of Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley.

Executive Committee

        We have an Executive Committee that meets periodically to set overall policies and strategies and to make key decisions regarding our operations and technology development priorities. The Executive Committee is not a committee of our board of directors. Messrs. Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley and Messrs. Cleveland, Lamboo, Nation and Walter are members of the Executive Committee.

Board of Directors

        Our board of directors currently consists of five directors. At the closing of this offering, our board of directors will be divided into three classes serving staggered three-year terms. Each year, the directors of

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one class will stand for election as their terms of office expire. Barry Bentley and Jay Seid will serve as Class I directors with their terms of office expiring in 2003; Keith Bentley and Kirk Griswold will serve as Class II directors with their terms of office expiring in 2004; and Greg Bentley will serve as a Class III director with his term of office expiring in 2005. The board plans to appoint an additional independent director within 12 months after the closing of this offering to serve as a Class III director. At each annual meeting of stockholders after the initial classification of the board of directors, the successors to directors whose terms will then expire will be elected to serve from the time of their election until the third annual meeting of stockholders following such election.

Board Committees

        Prior to this offering all of our directors were members of the audit committee. Following this offering, our board of directors will establish an audit committee and compensation committee whose members will not be our employees or be affiliated with management. In keeping with New York Stock Exchange listing requirements, our board of directors will adopt a charter for our audit committee. We will file this charter at least once every three years as an appendix to our annual proxy statement that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

        The functions of the audit committee will initially be to:

  review quarterly and annual financial statements;
 
  evaluate and recommend to our board of directors the firm of independent public accountants to be appointed as our auditors, which firm will be ultimately accountable to our board of directors through the audit committee;
 
  review and discuss with the outside auditors their audit procedures, results, scope, fees and timing of the audit;
 
  review the written statements from the outside auditors concerning any relationships between the auditors and us or the provision of non-audit services, including information technology and other non-audit services, that may adversely affect the independence of the auditors and, based on such review and other factors, assess the independence of the outside auditors;
 
  review and discuss with our management and the outside auditors our financial statements and our auditors’ judgment as to the quality of our accounting practices, principles and internal controls;
 
  review and discuss with management and the outside auditors: (a) any material financial or non-financial arrangements we have which do not appear on our financial statements; and (b) any transactions or courses of dealing with parties related to us which are significant in size or involve terms or other aspects that differ from those that would likely be negotiated with independent parties and which arrangements or transactions are relevant to an understanding of our financial statements;
 
  review and discuss with management and the outside auditors the accounting policies that may be viewed as critical and any significant changes in our accounting policies and proposals that may have a significant impact on our financial reports;
 
  review material pending legal proceedings involving us and other contingent liabilities; and
 
  review the appropriateness of the audit committee charter on an annual basis.

        As required by the New York Stock Exchange, we plan to appoint another independent director as a member of the audit committee within 12 months following this offering.

Director Compensation

        We historically have not compensated our directors for serving on the board. After this offering, we will provide annual cash compensation to each non-employee director of $15,000 plus $2,000 to audit and

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compensation committee members for each committee meeting attended. Under our 2002 stock option plan for non-employee directors, each of our non-employee directors will receive an automatic annual grant of an option to purchase 5,000 shares of our common stock. See “— Benefit Plans — 2002 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors.”

Executive Compensation

        The following table shows information concerning compensation paid in the year ended December 31, 2001 to our (1) Chief Executive Officer, (2) our Co-Chief Technology Officers, (3) the remaining members of our Executive Committee and (4) two highly compensated non-executive employees.

Summary Compensation Table

                                                   
Long-Term
Compensation
Annual Compensation(1)

Securities
Other Annual Underlying All Other
Name and Principal Position Year Salary Bonus Compensation(2) Options Compensation(3)







Greg Bentley*
    2001     $ 200,000     $ 1,073,000 (4)   $ 68,534           $ 6,800  
  Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman                                                
Keith A. Bentley*
    2001       200,000       1,073,500 (4)     68,534             6,800  
  Co-Chief Technology Officer                                                
Barry J. Bentley, Ph.D.*
    2001       200,000       1,073,000 (4)     68,534             6,800  
  Co-Chief Technology Officer                                                
Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr.*
    2001       180,000       121,253 (5)           40,000       6,800  
  Senior Vice President and General Manager of Bentley Software                                                
Ted Lamboo*
    2001       129,022       206,462 (5)           30,700        
  Senior Vice President, International Operations                                                
David G. Nation*
    2001       275,000       257,902 (5)     34,267       50,000       6,172  
  Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary                                                
Malcolm S. Walter*
    2001       243,750       194,001 (5)           40,000       6,800  
  Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Head of Field Operations                                                
Raymond B. Bentley
    2001       200,000       716,167 (4)     34,267             6,800  
Richard P. Bentley
    2001       200,000       357,333 (4)     34,267             6,800  


  * Member of the Executive Committee.

(1) With respect to each of the persons listed on the “Summary Compensation Table,” the aggregate amount of perquisites and other personal benefits, securities or property received was less than either $50,000 or 10% of the total annual salary and bonus reported for such persons.
 
(2) Amounts listed represent interest paid in August 2001 in connection with an aggregate of $5.1 million of deferred compensation earned in 1999. Interest on the deferred compensation is at the rate of 6% per annum and is paid annually. The deferred compensation will be paid six months after this offering. See “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions — Transactions with Executive Officers.
 
(3) Amounts listed represent matching contributions to our profit sharing/401(k) plan.
 
(4) Amounts listed represent aggregate incentive compensation for all five Bentley brothers, generally based on 20%, of operating cash earnings.
 
(5) Amounts listed represent quarterly bonuses under our Executive Incentive Plan. See “Benefit Plans — Executive Incentive Plan.” Mr. Lamboo was also paid incentive compensation based on the performance of our international sales organization.

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Option Grants in Last Fiscal Year

        The following table sets forth information regarding grants of stock options during fiscal year 2001 to each of the executive officers named in the Summary Compensation Table. None of the Bentleys have ever been granted options to purchase our stock.

                                                 
Individual Grants

Number of Potential Realizable
Shares of Percentage of Value at Assumed
Common Total Annual Rates of Stock
Stock Options Price Appreciation for
Underlying Granted to Exercise Option Term(3)
Options Employees in Price Expiration
Name Granted(1) FY2001(2) Per Share Date 5% 10%







Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr. 
    40,000       2.8 %   $ 6.12       11/26/2011                  
Ted Lamboo
    30,700       2.2       6.12       11/26/2011                  
David G. Nation
    50,000       3.5       6.12       11/26/2011                  
Malcolm S. Walter
    40,000       2.8       6.12       11/26/2011                  


(1) These options vest annually over a four-year period beginning on November 27, 2002.
 
(2) Based on options to purchase 1,428,540 shares of our common stock granted during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001.
 
(3) Potential realizable values are computed by: (i) multiplying the number of shares of common stock subject to a given option by the initial public offering price of $         , (ii) assuming that the aggregate stock value derived from that calculation compounds at the annual 5% and 10% rates shown in the table over the term of the options, and (iii) subtracting from that result the aggregate option exercise price. The potential realizable values do not take into account applicable tax expense payments that may be associated with such option exercises. The assumed 5% and 10% rates of stock price appreciation are provided in accordance with rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and do not represent our estimate or projection of the future stock price. Actual realized value, if any, will be dependent on the future price of the common stock on the actual date of exercise, which may be earlier than the stated expiration date.

Fiscal Year-End Option Values

        None of the executive officers or non-executive employees named in the Summary Compensation Table exercised options during fiscal year 2001. The following table sets forth the number and value of shares underlying unexercised options held as of December 31, 2001.

                                 
Number of Shares Value of Unexercised
Underlying Unexercised In-the-Money Options at
Options at Fiscal Year-End Fiscal Year-End(1)


Name Exercisable Unexercisable Exercisable Unexercisable





Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr. 
    27,250       47,750                  
Ted Lamboo
    48,000       43,200                  
David G. Nation
    68,630       67,500                  
Malcolm S. Walter
    15,000       55,000                  


(1) There was no public trading market for our common stock as of December 31, 2001. Accordingly, as permitted by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, these values have been calculated on the basis of the assumed initial public offering price per share of $        minus the relevant exercise price.

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Employment Agreements

        Prior to this offering, we plan to enter into employment agreements with each of Greg, Keith, Barry and Raymond Bentley. The employment agreements will be effective upon the closing of this offering. Under the employment agreements, these employees will be entitled to annual base salaries and will participate in performance-based bonus arrangements based generally on the level of operating income achieved versus an annual target established by our board of directors.

        Under their respective employment agreements, if the employment of either Greg, Keith, Barry or Raymond Bentley is terminated by us without cause or if they terminate for good reason, the terminated employee will be entitled to receive a lump sum severance payment equal to two times (three times, if the termination follows a change in control of our company) their base salary and target bonus for the year in which the termination occurs. In addition, we plan to adopt a supplemental executive retirement program for each of Greg, Keith, Barry and Raymond Bentley. Under this program, each of them will be eligible to receive an annual retirement benefit related to their age and an agreed percentage of their average base salary and bonus compensation under the agreements.

        Each of Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley will also be granted, upon the completion of this offering, performance-accelerated stock options to purchase shares of our common stock. The per share exercise price for each share underlying the options will be equal to the per share initial public offering price for our shares under this offering. The options will become vested if the grantee is still employed by us five years after the grant date, subject to acceleration of vesting upon achievement of certain performance-based targets relating to our earnings growth. If Greg, Keith or Barry Bentley are terminated by us without cause or if they terminate for good reason, all of their performance-accelerated stock options will become 100% vested and exercisable, and the options will remain exercisable for one year after termination.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

        Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley participated in deliberations relating to executive compensation in 2001. None of our executive officers serve as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has an executive officer serving as a member of our board of directors or compensation committee.

Benefit Plans

2002 Stock Option Plan for Employees

        We intend to adopt the 2002 stock option plan for employees to attract and retain capable employees and to provide an inducement to such personnel, through share ownership in our company, to promote the best interest of the company. Under the 2002 stock option plan for employees, we will be authorized to issue incentive stock options and non-qualified stock options to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of our common stock. As of January 1 of each year, additional shares will be made available under the 2002 stock option plan for employees — for non-qualified stock options only — as necessary to keep the sum of (i) the number of shares that remain available for options under the 2002 stock option plan for employees plus (ii) the number of shares subject to outstanding options in the aggregate under our 1995, 1997 and the 2002 stock option plans for employees at 15% of the outstanding common stock as of such January 1 of such year.

        The 2002 stock option plan for employees will be administered by the compensation committee consisting of at least two non-employee directors appointed by our board of directors. The committee will have full authority, subject to the terms of the 2002 stock option plan for employees, to select optionees, to determine the terms and conditions of options, and generally to administer the plan. We intend for the options of non-executive-officer employees to be subject to time-based vesting.

        We intend to issue performance accelerated stock options, or PASOs, which may be incentive stock options or non-qualified stock options, to certain of our executive officers once each year. We expect that the performance period of each PASO will be at least one year. We also expect that the term of the

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PASO will be ten years, with options vesting five years after the date of grant, except that vesting under a PASO will be accelerated upon achievement of stated financial performance goals.

        Under the plan, options may be granted for terms of up to ten years at an exercise price per share determined by the committee, but which will not be less than their fair market value as of the grant date. Incentive stock options will be subject to additional limitations required to comply with the Internal Revenue Code, such as requirements that:

  the exercise price per share of an incentive stock option granted to a person who owns more than 10% of our voting stock cannot be less than 110% of the fair market value of the optioned shares on the date of the grant and the term of the incentive stock option cannot be more than five years;
 
  the aggregate fair market value, determined at the time the option is granted, of the shares with respect to which incentive stock options are exercisable for the first time by any optionee during any calendar year may not exceed $100,000; and
 
  an incentive stock option may not be assignable or transferable by an optionee other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution.

2002 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors

        We intend to adopt the 2002 stock option plan for non-employee directors in order to align more closely the interests of our non-employee directors with our stockholders. Under the 2002 stock option plan for non-employee directors, we will be authorized to issue to our directors who are not our employees, non-qualified stock options to purchase up to 100,000 shares of our common stock. The plan will provide for an automatic annual grant to each non-employee director of an option to purchase 5,000 shares of our common stock. The compensation committee will administer the 2002 stock option plan for non-employee directors. The exercise price per share of options granted under the 2002 stock option plan for non-employee directors will be at least 100% of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date, and the options generally will expire 10 years from the grant date unless extended in the committee’s discretion. Options granted under the plan generally will vest 20% on the date of grant and 20% each year for the next four years.

1997 Stock Option Plan

        The 1997 stock option plan permits our board of directors to grant to our employees non-qualified stock options and incentive stock options for the purchase of our common stock. We have reserved 3,800,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 1997 stock option plan, of which 3,393,816 shares of common stock were issuable upon the exercise of stock options outstanding as of March 31, 2002. No further options will be granted under the 1997 stock option plan after the closing of this offering but all options outstanding under the plan will remain in full force and effect. Options granted under the 1997 stock option plan vest over four years and generally terminate on the tenth anniversary of the date of grant.

1995 Stock Option Plan

        The 1995 stock option plan permits our board of directors to grant to our employees non-qualified stock options for the purchase of our common stock. We have reserved 1,075,080 shares of common stock for issuance under the 1995 stock option plan, of which 564,130 shares were issuable upon the exercise of stock options outstanding as of March 31, 2002. No further options will be granted under the 1995 stock option plan but all options outstanding under the plan will remain in full force and effect. Options granted under the 1995 stock option plan generally vest over four years and terminate on either January 31, 2004 or November 13, 2006.

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Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan

        We maintain a qualified profit sharing/401(k) plan for the benefit of substantially all full-time employees in the United States with six months of service. Under the plan, eligible employees may elect to make salary deferral contributions of their annual compensation, subject to certain statutory limitations. We make matching contributions to the 401(k) portion of our plan and may make discretionary contributions to the profit sharing portion of our plan up to a maximum of 6% of qualified annual compensation for each eligible participating employee. Each employee’s right to the matching and discretionary contributions made to their profit sharing plan/401(k) account are subject to vesting. The vesting period, which commences upon the beginning of the employee’s service with us, is four years.

        Discretionary contributions under the plan may be made in cash or stock, at the election of our board of directors. As of March 31, 2002, we had issued 355,626 shares of our Class B common stock to the trustee of the plan for the accounts of our U.S. employees.

        We also maintain various retirement benefit plans for employees of our international subsidiaries, primarily defined contribution plans.

Executive Incentive Plan

        The members of our Executive Committee identified above, other than Greg, Barry and Keith Bentley, are paid quarterly bonuses as a percentage of their cash compensation. The percentage is computed under a formula based generally on our achievement of our budgeted cash operating earnings as a percentage of net revenues for the quarter.

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

Transactions with Intergraph

        At December 31, 2001, Intergraph Corporation, a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: INGR) and a stockholder of our company since 1987, owned approximately 29% of our fully diluted common stock. Intergraph currently distributes our products on a non-exclusive basis. Revenues from Intergraph aggregated 4.4%, 2.3% and 2.4% of total revenues in 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively.

        During 1999, we and Intergraph entered into a number of agreements to settle pending disputes. Under the settlement agreements, among other things, Intergraph paid us approximately $13.7 million, transferred to us 3,000,000 shares of our Class A common stock and agreed to terminate its use of our proprietary plotting libraries in all Intergraph products. In connection with one of the settlement agreements, we granted Intergraph registration rights that allow them to sell shares of our common stock in this offering.

        On December 26, 2000, we purchased the civil engineering, plot-services and raster-conversion software product lines from Intergraph for an initial purchase price of approximately $24.6 million. At the closing, we paid approximately $13.5 million in cash and delivered a promissory note for approximately $11.1 million, which is payable in equal quarterly installments over a three-year period. The note bears interest at an annual rate of 9.5%. The principal amount of the note was subject to adjustments based on transferred and renewal maintenance revenues related to the software product lines that we acquired from Intergraph. The principal amount of the note was adjusted upward as of June 1, 2001 to $13.2 million and again as of December 1, 2001 to $17.2 million. As adjusted, the total purchase price was $35.4 million. The principal balance of the note as of March 31, 2002 was approximately $15.2 million. The Bentley SELECT contracts and the revenues from those contracts, to the extent related to the acquired product lines, secure our payment of the note to Intergraph Corporation. We plan to repay this note with a portion of the net proceeds of this offering.

Transactions with Executive Officers

        Between 1987 and 1994, we were owned 50% by Greg, Keith, Barry, Raymond and Richard Bentley, on the one hand, and 50% owned by Intergraph, on the other hand, and Intergraph had the exclusive worldwide right to distribute all our products. During that period, one-third of the royalties from Intergraph under the exclusive distribution agreement was paid as bonuses to Greg, Keith, Barry, Raymond and Richard Bentley. Upon settlement of an arbitration with Intergraph in 1999, in which we sought to recover due but unpaid royalties for the period between 1987 and 1994, bonuses based on the unpaid royalties received in the settlement, net of arbitration costs, were paid to the Bentleys and David Nation. In the aggregate, those bonuses consisted of $0.9 million in cash and deferred compensation arrangements under which an aggregate $5.1 million payment will be made six months after the completion of this offering. Interest on the deferred compensation is at the rate of 6% per annum and is paid annually.

        On August 6, 1999, we sold an aggregate of 1,000,000 shares of our Class A common stock to Greg, Keith, Barry, Raymond and Richard Bentley and David Nation for an aggregate purchase price of $5.1 million. In connection with this purchase, we loaned them an aggregate of $5.1 million. All of the these loans are evidenced by full recourse promissory notes and become due and payable six months after the closing of this offering. Interest on the notes at 6% per annum is paid annually. As of December 31, 2001, an aggregate principal amount of $5.1 million was outstanding under the notes.

        On December 26, 2000, we entered into a $32 million Revolving Credit and Security Agreement with PNC Bank, National Association and Citibank N.A. As a condition to the agreement with the banks, each of Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley and their spouses executed agreements in favor of PNC Bank and Citibank to personally guarantee, and pledged personal assets to secure the guarantees, up to $7.5 million of our obligations under the revolving line of credit. In consideration for executing the guaranty agreements, we issued to the guarantors warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 579,984 shares of

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Class B common stock and agreed to lend them the estimated amount of their income taxes due on the value of the compensation for the guarantees represented by those warrants. The warrants expire on December 26, 2010. The guarantees were released in July 2001. In connection with the guarantee and our tax loan promise, we loaned Greg Bentley and his spouse $229,400 on January 14, 2002. The loan bears interest at an annual rate of 6% and will become due and payable six months after the completion of this offering.

        The exercise price for each of the warrants to purchase Class B common stock issued to Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley in connection with the bank guaranty agreements is equal to the initial public offering price per share of our common stock less a discount. The discount on the exercise price was initially 20% and increases by 10% per year on a straight line basis over a five-year period beginning on December 26, 2001, up to a maximum discount of 70%. As of March 31, 2002, the discount was 22.6%. These warrants will be automatically exercised, on a net issuance basis, immediately prior to the closing of this offering.

        On December 26, 2000, we sold an aggregate of 75,000 shares of Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,040,000 shares of Class B common stock. This equity was required as a condition to the revolving credit and security agreement and the proceeds were used to fund our acquisition of product lines from Intergraph. In that transaction, Greg Bentley purchased 27,500 shares of our Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase approximately 381,333 shares of our Class B common stock for a purchase price of $2.75 million and each of Keith Bentley and Barry Bentley purchased 5,000 shares of our Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase approximately 69,333 shares of our Class B common stock for a purchase price of $0.5 million. The balance of the offering of 37,500 shares of Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase up to 520,000 shares of Class B common stock were purchased by third party investors for an aggregate purchase price of $3.75 million. The warrants expire on December 26, 2010. The Senior Class C common stock accrues quarterly dividends and we are obligated, subject to certain conditions under our revolving credit and security agreement, to pay 45 days following the end of the quarter, one-half of the quarterly dividend accrual and may pay the other half at the discretion of our board of directors.

        On July 2, 2001, Malcolm Walter, our Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Head of Field Operations, purchased 1,000 shares of our Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase 13,867 shares of our Class B common stock for a purchase price of $0.1 million. At the same time, an additional 25,000 shares of Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase up to 346,667 shares of Class B common stock were purchased by a third party investment firm. The warrants expire on July 2, 2011.

        The exercise price for each of the warrants to purchase Class B common stock issued to Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley and Malcolm Walter is equal to the initial public offering price per share of our common stock less a discount. For each warrant, the discount on the exercise price was initially 0% and increases by 10% per year on a straight line basis over a five-year period beginning on the first anniversary of its sale up to a maximum discount of 50%. As of March 31, 2002, the discount on the warrants sold on December 26, 2000 was 2.6% and the discount on the warrants sold on July 2, 2001 was 0%. These warrants will be automatically exercised, on a net issuance basis, immediately prior to the closing of this offering.

Other Transactions

        On October 1, 2001, we entered into a Warehouse and Shipping Outsourcing Agreement with VideoRay, LLC. Under the agreement, we outsource to VideoRay the warehousing and shipping services that we previously had conducted in-house. The outsourcing was desirable because of our diminishing needs for our warehouse and related services as a result of changes in our product distribution methods, from physical kits to electronic delivery. VideoRay also assumed the operation of and all lease payments for our warehouse in Exton, Pennsylvania. We pay VideoRay a monthly fee of $23,700 for these services and VideoRay assumes certain costs of operating the facility, including rent, warehouse-related occupancy

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costs, payroll, medical and insurance expenses for our employees working under VideoRay’s supervision to perform required services under the agreement and equipment maintenance and service and other costs. We may also pay an additional $1,000 per month in fees if telephone costs between the parties are separable. In addition, we reimburse VideoRay for carrier costs for shipments and certain other expenses. The warehouse agreement expires on December 31, 2002, although we have the right to terminate the agreement if we find an alternate source who can provide the services better or cheaper. All of the costs for these out-sourced services were previously borne by us. In connection with all the services provided under the warehouse agreement, we paid $0.3 million to VideoRay in 2001 for the portion of the year that the agreement was in force, including $0.2 million for carrier costs. Richard Bentley, one of our employees and a brother of Messrs. Greg, Keith and Barry Bentley, owns a 68% equity interest in VideoRay. We negotiated this agreement on an arms-length basis and believe that the terms of the agreement are at least as favorable as could have been obtained from an unaffiliated third party.

        In connection with purchases of our securities, we have granted demand and piggyback registration rights to various directors, executive officers and stockholders in accordance with an Amended and Restated Information and Registration Rights Agreement dated December 26, 2000 and Joinders to the Amended and Restated Information and Registration Rights Agreement dated July 2, 2001 and September 18, 2001. See “Description of Capital Stock — Registration Rights.”

        Our certificate of incorporation and by-laws provide that we will indemnify our directors and executive officers and may indemnify our other officers and employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by law. See “Description of Capital Stock — Limitation on Liability.”

        We expect that all future transactions between us and our executive officers, directors or principal stockholders will be on terms no less favorable to us than could be obtained from unaffiliated third parties.

        We maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that provides our directors and officers with insurance coverage for losses arising from claims based on breaches of duty, negligence, error and other wrongful acts.

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PRINCIPAL AND SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

        The following table shows information known to us with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of March 31, 2002 by:

  each person (or group of affiliated persons) known by us to be the owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock;
 
  the selling stockholder;
 
  each of our directors;
 
  each of our executive officers and the two non-executive officer employees listed on the Summary Compensation Table under “Management — Executive Compensation”; and
 
  all of our directors and executive officers as a group.

        The shares beneficially owned before this offering reflect the conversion of all outstanding convertible capital stock into our common stock and the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the automatic exercise of certain warrants, on a net issuance basis of March 31, 2002, held by our executive officers and others. The shares beneficially owned after this offering also reflect the issuance of                shares of our common stock in connection with the acquisition of the remainder of Rebis and                shares issued upon the closing of this offering.

        Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and includes generally voting power and/or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days after March 31, 2002 are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage beneficially owned by the person holding such options but are not deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage beneficially owned by any other person. Except as otherwise noted, the persons or entities named have sole voting and investment power with respect to those shares shown as beneficially owned by them. Unless otherwise indicated, the principal address of each of the stockholders below is c/o Bentley Systems, Incorporated, 685 Stockton Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341.

                                         
Shares Beneficially Owned Shares Beneficially
Before Offering Number of Owned After Offering

Shares Being
Name of Beneficial Owner Number Percentage Offered Number Percentage






Five Percent Stockholders and Selling Stockholder:
                                       
Intergraph Corporation
    7,810,000 (1)(2)       %                       %
Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P.
    3,723,478 (1)(3)                              
Directors and Executive Officers:
                                       
Greg Bentley
      (1)                              
Keith A. Bentley
      (1)                              
Barry J. Bentley, Ph.D. 
      (1)                              
Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr.
    160,773 (1)(4)                              
Ted Lamboo
    60,500 (1)(5)                              
David G. Nation
    220,241 (1)(6)                              
Malcolm S. Walter
      (7)                              
Kirk D. Griswold
      (8)                                
Jay D. Seid
    3,723,478 (9)                              
All executive officers and directors as a group (9 persons)
      (10)                              
Employees:
                                       
Richard P. Bentley
    1,655,397 (1)                              
Raymond B. Bentley
    1,655,397 (1)                              

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    * Less than 1% of the outstanding common stock.

  (1) On September 18, 1998, Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P. (Bachow) entered into a stock purchase agreement with us. In connection with that stock purchase agreement, we and Bachow entered into an escrow agreement pursuant to which 2,171,028 shares of our common stock were placed into escrow. On or before the end of the escrow period on September 18, 2002, such shares will be (i) released to Bachow Partners, or (ii) transferred to persons who were our stockholders at the time the stock purchase agreement was entered into on September 18, 1998, and who remain our stockholders as of September 18, 2002 (including those named below), or (iii) provided in part to Bachow Partners and the remainder to the other stockholders described in (ii), depending in each case on whether certain conditions have been met and based on formulae set forth in the escrow agreement. The formulae used to determine the number of shares to be distributed to the parties are based on our market value over the four-year period in relation to certain agreed upon targets. Bachow has voting power over the shares while held in escrow, and for purposes of this table, Bachow is deemed to beneficially own such shares. The shares held in escrow are excluded from the beneficial ownership amounts set forth in the table for our following stockholders as of September 18, 1998 who may be entitled to receive shares from the escrow: Intergraph Corporation, Greg, Keith, Barry, Richard and Raymond Bentley, Alton (Buddy) Cleveland, Jr., Ted Lamboo and David Nation.
 
  (2) Intergraph Corporation’s address is One Madison Industrial Park, Huntsville, Alabama 35894-001.
 
  (3) Includes 2,171,028 shares of common stock held pursuant to the escrow agreement described in Note 1 above. Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P is a limited partnership, of which Bala Equity L.P. is the general partner. The general partner of Bala Equity L.P. is Bala Equity, Inc., of which Paul Bachow is the sole stockholder and therefore may be deemed to have voting and investment power over these shares. The address of Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P. is 3 Bala Plaza East, Suite 502, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
 
  (4) Includes 29,000 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options and 7,389 shares beneficially owned by his son.
 
  (5) Includes 50,500 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options.
 
  (6) Includes 71,130 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options and 8,000 shares beneficially owned by Mr. Nation and his spouse.
 
  (7) Includes 15,000 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options.
 
  (8) Includes                  shares of common stock held by Argosy Investment Partners, L.P. Mr. Griswold is a partner of Argosy Investment Partners, L.P. and may be deemed to have voting or investment power with respect to these shares. Mr. Griswold does not own any shares individually and disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares owned by Argosy Investment Partners, L.P.
 
  (9) Mr. Seid serves as a Vice President and on the management committee of Bala Equity, Inc., which has voting and investment power over the shares held by Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P. See Note 1 and Note 3 above. Accordingly, Mr. Seid may be deemed to beneficially own these shares.

(10) See Note 1 and Notes 4 through 9.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

General

        Immediately prior to the closing of this offering and upon the filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our authorized capital stock will consist of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, 100,000 shares of Series B junior participating preferred stock, par value of $0.01 per share and 10,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share.

        Our current authorized capital stock consists of 60,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, 30,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, 150,000 shares of Senior Class C common stock, 480,000 shares of Class D common stock and 1,552,450 shares of Series A preferred stock. As of December 31, 2001, there were 15, 19, 14 and 6 holders of record of our Class A common stock, Class B common stock, Senior Class C common stock and Class D common stock, respectively, and there was one holder of record of our Series A preferred stock. The conversion of the Senior Class C common stock is based upon a formula described in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. Immediately prior to the closing of this offering, our Class A common stock will be redesignated as common stock and all of our other outstanding capital stock will be converted into our common stock.

        The following summary description of our capital stock, certificate of incorporation and by-laws is not intended to be complete and assumes the filing immediately prior to the closing of this offering of an amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws substantially in the form to be filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and by provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

Common Stock

        After giving effect to the issuance of  shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $          per share and the reclassification and conversion of our capital stock, there will be                               shares of common stock outstanding. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of common stock are subject to and may be adversely affected by, the rights of holders of shares of any series of preferred stock that we may designate and issue in the future. See “— Preferred Stock.

        Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to a vote of holders of common stock. The holders of common stock do not have cumulative voting rights. The election of directors is determined by a plurality of votes cast and, except as otherwise required by law, our certificate of incorporation or by-laws, all other matters are determined by a majority of the votes cast. The common stock has no preemptive rights and is not convertible, redeemable or assessable. The holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors out of legally available funds, subject to any preferential dividend rights of outstanding preferred stock. Upon our liquidation, dissolution or the winding up of our affairs, after payment of all of our debts and liabilities and after payment of any liquidation preferences of then outstanding preferred stock, the holders of common stock will be entitled to receive a portion of all remaining assets that are legally available for distribution.

Preferred Stock

        Undesignated Preferred Stock. Immediately following the offering, our board will have the authority to designate and issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, in one or more series. By resolution of the board of directors and without any further vote or action by the stockholders, we have the authority, subject to certain limitations prescribed by law, to determine the number of shares of any class or series as well as the voting rights, preferences, limitations and special rights, if any, of the shares of any class or series, including dividend rights, dividend rates, conversion rights and terms, redemption rights and terms and liquidation preferences. The issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control over us.

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        Rights Plan. In addition, prior to the closing of this offering, we intend to adopt a stockholder rights agreement under which holders of common stock of record at the close of business on the date immediately preceding the closing of this offering will receive one right per share. Each right will entitle the holder to purchase one one-thousandth of a share of our Series B junior participating preferred stock at a purchase price to be determined by our board prior to the closing of this offering. Each one one-thousandth of a share of Series B junior participating preferred stock will have economic and voting terms equivalent to one share of our common stock. Until it is exercised, the right itself will not entitle the holder thereof to any rights as a stockholder, including the right to receive dividends or to vote at stockholder meetings. Prior to the closing of this offering, we intend to authorize 100,000 shares of Series B junior participating preferred stock for issuance in connection with our stockholder rights agreement.

        The stockholder rights agreement is designed to protect stockholders in the event of unsolicited offers to acquire us and other coercive takeover tactics which, in the opinion of our board of directors, could impair its ability to represent stockholder interests. The provisions of the stockholder rights agreement may render an unsolicited takeover more difficult or less likely to occur or may prevent such a takeover, even though such takeover may offer our stockholders the opportunity to sell their stock at a price above the prevailing market rate and may be favored by a majority of our stockholders.

        The description and terms of the rights will be set forth in a rights agreement. Although the material provisions of the stockholder rights agreement have been accurately summarized, the statements below concerning the rights agreement are not complete and in each instance reference is made to the form of rights agreement itself, a copy of which will be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Each statement is qualified in its entirety by such reference.

        Stockholder rights are not exercisable until the distribution date and will expire at the close of business on the tenth anniversary following the date of the agreement, unless earlier redeemed or exchanged by us. A distribution date would occur upon the earlier of the tenth business day:

  after the first public announcement by us or an acquiring person (as defined below) that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (referred to as an acquiring person) has beneficial ownership of 15% or more of our outstanding common stock (the date of such announcement or communication is referred to as the stock acquisition date);
 
  or later if determined by our board, after the commencement or announcement of the intention to commence a tender offer or exchange offer that would result in a person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 15% of our outstanding common stock; or
 
  after a person becomes an adverse person, which is a person whose beneficial ownership of common stock exceeds an ownership limitation, set by the board after the board has determined that this person is accumulating stock for short-term personal gain or such ownership is or would likely cause a material adverse impact on our business or prospects.

        If any person becomes an acquiring person or is deemed an adverse person, each holder of a stockholder right will be entitled to exercise the right and receive, instead of Series B junior participating preferred stock, common stock (or, in certain circumstances, cash, a reduction in purchase price, property or other securities of us) having a value equal to two times the purchase price of the stockholder right. All stockholder rights that are beneficially owned by an acquiring person, an adverse person or their transferee will become null and void.

        If after the stock acquisition date or after our board has determined that a person is an adverse person, (1) we are acquired in a merger or other business combination or (2) 50% or more of our assets or earning power is sold or transferred, each holder of a stockholder right (except rights which previously have been voided as set forth above) will have the right to receive, upon exercise, common stock of the acquiring company having a value equal to two times the purchase price of the right.

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        The purchase price payable, the number of one one-thousandth of a share of Series B junior participating preferred stock or other securities or property issuable upon exercise of rights and the number of rights outstanding, are subject to adjustment from time to time to prevent dilution or to avoid adverse tax consequences.

        At any time until the earlier of (1) ten days following the stock acquisition time or such later time as the board may designate, or (2) the expiration of the stockholder rights agreement, we may redeem all the stockholder rights at a price of $0.001 per right. We may not redeem the rights in whole or in part while a person continues to retain the status of an adverse person. The stockholders rights agreement excludes all of the members of the Bentley family and their affiliates and associates from being an acquiring person or an adverse person. The stockholder rights agreement also exempts stockholders and their associates and affiliates who beneficially own 15% or more of the stockholder rights agreement voting stock on the record date for the rights until they first own less than 15% of the stock. Prior to this date, however, these exempted stockholders will be considered acquiring persons if they acquire any additional stockholder rights agreement voting stock then outstanding. At any time after a person has become an acquiring person and prior to the acquisition by such person of 50% or more of the outstanding shares of our common stock, we may exchange the stockholder rights, in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one share of common stock, or one one-thousandth of a share of Series B junior participating preferred stock (or of a share of a class or series of preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges), per right.

Warrants

        Immediately prior to the closing of this offering there will be outstanding warrants to purchase a total of 3,523,474 shares of our Class B common stock. Of these warrants, we have outstanding warrants to purchase 2,535,184 shares of Class B common stock which will be automatically exercised upon the closing of this offering. These warrants have a net issuance mechanism which, if exercised on March 31, 2002, would result in a net issuance of 158,116 shares. Immediately following the closing of this offering, the remaining warrants to purchase 988,290 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $10.17 per share will remain outstanding. The warrants to be outstanding after the closing of this offering are held by PNC Bank, National Association and Citibank, N.A. If unexercised, these warrants will expire upon the earlier of the second anniversary of this offering or 90 days after we receive a notice of nonrenewal from PNC Bank and Citibank with respect to our revolving credit facility.

Exchangeable Shares of Preferred Stock of 9090-0960 Quebec Inc., a Canadian Subsidiary

        On April 26, 2000, we agreed to acquire all of the outstanding stock of HMR Inc., a Quebec corporation that develops of high performance digital imaging software for the engineering market, through our indirect subsidiary 9090-0960 Quebec Inc. As part of that transaction, certain existing stockholders in HMR exchanged their shares for securities, known as exchangeable shares, of 9090-0960 Quebec. Holders of exchangeable shares are entitled to receive dividends equivalent to those provided to our Class B common stock, if any. Exchangeable shares are subject to adjustment for stock splits or combinations, reclassifications and other similar changes in our Class B common stock. Holders of the exchangeable shares are not entitled to vote or attend meetings of the stockholders of 9090-0960 Quebec or our company.

        Holders of exchangeable shares also are entitled to retraction rights in the exchangeable shares. The retraction rights permit holders to require 9090-0960 Quebec to redeem at any time on up to two occasions all or a portion of their exchangeable shares on a one-for-one basis for our Class B common stock, plus all declared but unpaid dividends, if any. The exchangeable shares shall be automatically redeemed by 9090-0960 Quebec on December 31, 2002, unless the date of redemption is extended or accelerated by its board of directors The date of the automatic redemption may only be accelerated if fewer than 15% of the original exchangeable shares remain outstanding or if there is a change in control of 9090-0960 Quebec. In addition, holders of exchangeable shares have a put right for use on up to two occasions to require 9090-0952 Quebec Inc., our wholly owned subsidiary, to purchase all or a portion of

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their exchangeable shares for our Class B common stock based on the same ratio as the retraction right. The put right is triggered, among other events, upon our or our Canadian subsidiary’s insolvency or bankruptcy, failure to pay dividends otherwise payable and notification of our Canadian subsidiary’s intent to redeem the exchangeable shares. As of December 31, 2001, there were 221,318 exchangeable shares outstanding.

Registration Rights

        After the completion of this offering, certain of our stockholders, who originally purchased shares of our Series A preferred stock, Senior Class C common stock and warrants to purchase shares of Class B common stock, are entitled to rights with respect to the registration of  shares of common stock under the Securities Act. Beginning 180 days after this offering, holders of these rights may require us on two occasions, subject to certain conditions and limitations, to file a registration statement under the Securities Act at our expense with respect to their shares of common stock. The rights to require registration terminate on the fourth anniversary of the closing of this offering. We are required to use our best efforts to effect such a registration, subject to conditions and limitations. In addition, holders of registrable securities are entitled to notice and to the inclusion of their shares of common stock, if we propose to register any of our securities under the Securities Act at any time subsequent to this offering, either for our own account or for the account of other stockholders exercising registration rights. These rights are subject to the right of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in that registration under certain circumstances.

        Upon the closing of our acquisition of the remainder of Rebis and the closing of this offering, stockholders of Rebis will be entitled to registration rights with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of                      shares of common stock received as part of their consideration. These holders are entitled to notice and inclusion of their shares of common stock if we propose to register any of our securities under the Securities Act either for our own account or for the account of other stockholders exercising their registration rights. These rights are subject to the right of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in that registration under certain circumstances.

        The description of the registration rights to be held by certain of our stockholders after this offering is not complete and is qualified by our amended and restated information and registration rights agreement and by a form registration rights agreement filed as an exhibit to the Purchase and Option Agreement among our company, Rebis and the stockholders of Rebis, each of which is attached as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

Limitation on Liability

        Our certificate of incorporation limits or eliminates the liability of our directors or officers to us or our stockholders for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended (the DGCL). The DGCL provides that our directors are not personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:

  for any breach of such person’s duty of loyalty;
 
  for acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  for the payment of unlawful dividends and some other actions prohibited by Delaware corporate law; and
 
  for any transaction resulting in receipt by such person of an improper personal benefit.

        Our certificate of incorporation also entitles our directors to the benefits of all limitations on the liability of directors generally that now or hereafter become available under the DGCL. The certificate of

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incorporation also contains provisions indemnifying our directors, officers and employees to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

        We maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that provides our directors and officers with insurance coverage for losses arising from claims based on breaches of duty, negligence, error and other wrongful acts.

Certain Anti-Takeover Provisions

        Some provisions of Delaware law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws that we intend to adopt prior to this offering contain provisions that could make the following transactions more difficult:

  acquisition of us by means of a tender offer;
 
  acquisition of us by means of a proxy contest or otherwise; or
 
  removal of our incumbent officers and directors.

        These provisions, summarized below, are intended to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our board of directors. These provisions also serve to discourage hostile takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. We believe that these provisions are beneficial because the negotiation they encourage could result in improved terms of any unsolicited proposal.

        Undesignated Preferred Stock. Our board of directors has the ability to authorize undesignated preferred stock, which allows the board of directors to issue preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any unsolicited attempt to change control of our company. This ability may have the effect of deferring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company.

        Stockholder Meetings. Our certificate of incorporation and by-laws provide that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by our President, our Chief Executive Officer or by a resolution adopted by a majority of the members of our board of directors.

        Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals. Our by-laws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of our board of directors or a committee of our board of directors.

        Election and Removal of Directors. Our board of directors is divided into three classes. The directors in each class will serve for a three-year term, one class being elected each year by our stockholders. Once elected, directors may be removed only for cause and only by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of our outstanding common stock. For more information on the classified board, see “Management — Board of Directors.” This system of electing and removing directors may tend to discourage a third party from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us because it generally makes it more difficult for stockholders to replace a majority of the directors.

        Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute. We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which prohibits persons deemed “interested stockholders” from engaging in a “business combination” with a Delaware corporation for three years following the date these persons become interested stockholders unless:

  the transaction is approved by the board of directors prior to the date that the interested stockholder attained such status;
 
  upon completion of the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding those shares owned by persons who are officers and directors and certain employee stock plans; or

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  on or after such date, the business combination is approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.

        Generally, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status did own, 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. Generally, a “business combination” includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

        The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

        Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market after this offering could cause the market price of our common stock to fall and could affect our ability to raise equity capital on terms favorable to us.

        Upon the closing of this offering, we will have                               shares of common stock outstanding, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and no exercise of outstanding options or warrants to purchase common stock. Of these shares, the                     shares of common stock being sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, except that any shares held by our affiliates, as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (Rule 144), may generally only be sold in compliance with the limitations of Rule 144 described below.

        The remaining                     shares were issued and sold by us in private transactions, are restricted securities and may be sold in the public market only if registered under the Securities Act or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rules 144, 144(k) or 701 under the Securities Act, which rules are summarized below. Subject to the lock-up agreements described below and the provisions of Rules 144, 144(k) and 701, additional shares will be available for sale in the public market, subject in the case of shares held by affiliates to compliance with certain volume restrictions, as follows:

         
Date of Availability for Sale Number of Shares


As of the date of this prospectus
       
            , 2002 (90 days after the date of this prospectus)
       
            , 2002 (180 days after the date of this prospectus)
       
At various times thereafter upon expiration of applicable holding periods
       

        In addition, if all outstanding and vested options were fully exercised,           shares would be available for sale 90 days from the date of this prospectus and an additional           shares would be available 180 days from the date of this prospectus. Subject to compliance with certain volume restrictions, if all outstanding warrants were fully exercised,                     shares would be available for sale immediately following this offering.

Rule 144

        In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, a person who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least one year is entitled to sell, within any three-month period, a number of shares that is not more than the greater of:

  1% of the number of shares of common stock then outstanding, which will equal approximately                     shares immediately after this offering; or
 
  the average weekly trading volume of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange during the four calendar weeks before such sale, subject to the filing of a Form 144 with respect to such sale.

        Sales under Rule 144 generally are also subject to manner of sale provisions, notice requirements and the availability of current public information about us.

        Under Rule 144(k), a person who has not been one of our affiliates at any time during the three months before a sale and who has beneficially owned the restricted shares for at least two years, is entitled to sell the shares without complying with the manner of sale, public information, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144.

Rule 701

        In general, under Rule 701 of the Securities Act as currently in effect, any of our employees, consultants or advisors who purchased shares from us prior to the date of this prospectus under a stock

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option plan or other written agreement can resell those shares 90 days after the date of this prospectus in reliance on Rule 144, but without complying with some of the restrictions, including the holding period, contained in Rule 144.

        We have agreed with the underwriters that during the 180-day period following the date of this prospectus we will not file a Form S-8 registration statement under the Securities Act to register shares of common stock issued and issuable upon exercise of stock options granted by us. We intend to file the Form S-8 registration statement upon the expiration of the lock-up period. The Form S-8 registration statement will become effective immediately upon filing and shares covered by that registration statement will thereupon be eligible for sale in the public markets, subject to Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates.

        Prior to this offering there has been no public market for our common stock and no predictions can be made regarding the effect, if any, that market sales of shares or the availability of shares for sale will have on the market price prevailing from time to time. Nevertheless, sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market could adversely affect the prevailing market price.

        All of our directors (other than Jay Seid), executive officers and warrant holders and substantially all holders of our outstanding common stock (other than Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P.), which hold in the aggregate                     shares of our common stock have agreed that they will not, without the prior written consent of Lehman Brothers Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of common stock or warrants to acquire shares of common stock during the 180-day period following the date of this prospectus. See “Underwriting.”

        After the closing of this offering, the holders of                     shares of our common stock will be entitled to certain rights with respect to the registration of such shares under the Securities Act. See “Description of Capital Stock — Registration Rights.” Registration of such shares under the Securities Act would result in such shares, except for shares purchased by affiliates, becoming freely tradable without restriction under the Securities Act immediately upon the effectiveness of such registration.

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UNDERWRITING

        Under the underwriting agreement, which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement relating to this prospectus, each of the underwriters named below, for whom Lehman Brothers Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (as joint bookrunning managers), SG Cowen Securities Corporation and First Union Securities, Inc. are acting as representatives, have agreed to purchase from us and the selling stockholder, on a firm commitment basis, subject only to the conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, the respective number of shares of common stock shown opposite its name below.

           
Underwriters Number of Shares


Lehman Brothers Inc.
       
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
       
SG Cowen Securities Corporation
       
First Union Securities, Inc.
       
     
 
 
Total
       
     
 

        The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriters’ obligations to purchase our common stock depend on the satisfaction of conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, which include:

  if any shares of common stock are purchased by the underwriters, then all of the shares of common stock the underwriters agreed to purchase must be purchased;
  if an underwriter defaults, purchase commitments of the non-defaulting underwriters may be increased or the underwriting agreement may be terminated;
  the representations and warranties made by us and the selling stockholder to the underwriters are true;
  there is no material change in the financial markets; and
  we and the selling stockholder deliver customary closing documents to the underwriters.

Commissions and Expenses

        The representatives have advised us and the selling stockholder that the underwriters propose to offer the common stock directly to the public at the initial public offering price presented on the cover page of this prospectus and to selected dealers, which may include the underwriters, at the initial public offering price less a selling concession not in excess of $           per share. The underwriters may allow and the selected dealers may reallow, a concession not in excess of $           per share to brokers and dealers. After the offering, the underwriters may change the offering price and other selling terms.

        The following table summarizes the underwriting discounts and commissions we and the selling stockholder will pay. The underwriting discounts and commissions are equal to the initial public offering price per share, less the amount paid to us and the selling stockholder per share. The underwriting discounts and commissions equal           % of the initial public offering price.

                           
Total

Without With
Fee per Share Over-Allotment Over-Allotment



Underwriting discounts and commissions to be paid to the underwriters by us
  $       $       $    
Underwriting discounts and commissions to be paid to the underwriters by the selling stockholder
                       
     
     
     
 
 
Total
  $       $       $    

        We estimate that the total expenses of the offering, including approximately $                    in filing fees, $ in professional fees and expenses and $                    for other fees and expenses, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $           million.

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Over-Allotment Option

        We have granted to the underwriters an option to purchase up to an aggregate of                     shares of common stock, exercisable to cover over-allotments, if any, at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions shown on the cover page of this prospectus. The underwriters may exercise this option at any time until 30 days after the date of the underwriting agreement. To the extent the underwriters exercise this option, each underwriter will be committed, so long as the conditions of the underwriting agreement are satisfied, to purchase a number of additional shares proportionate to that underwriter’s initial commitment as indicated in the preceding table.

Lock-Up Agreements

        We and the selling stockholder have agreed that, without the prior written consent of Lehman Brothers Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., neither we nor the selling stockholder will, directly or indirectly, offer, sell or dispose of any common stock or any securities that may be converted into or exchanged for any common stock for a period of 180 days from the date of this prospectus. All of our executive officers, directors (other than Jay Seid), warrant holders and substantially all holders of our outstanding common stock (other than Bachow Investment Partners III, L.P.), which hold in the aggregate                     shares of our common stock, have agreed under lock-up agreements not to, without the prior written consent of Lehman Brothers Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., directly or indirectly, offer, sell or otherwise dispose of any common stock or any securities which may be converted into or exchanged or exercised for any common stock for a period of 180 days from the date of this prospectus.

Offering Price Determination

        Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. The initial public offering price has been negotiated between the representatives and us. In determining the initial public offering price of our common stock, the representatives considered:

  prevailing market conditions;
 
  our historical performance and capital structure;
 
  estimates of our business potential and earnings prospects;
 
  an overall assessment of our management; and
 
  the consideration of these factors in relation to market valuation of companies in related businesses.

Indemnification

        We and the selling stockholder have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against liabilities relating to the offering, including liabilities under the Securities Act and liabilities arising from breaches of the representations and warranties contained in the underwriting agreement, and to contribute to payments that the underwriters may be required to make for these liabilities.

Stabilization, Short Positions And Penalty Bids

        The representatives may engage in over-allotment, stabilizing transactions, syndicate short covering transactions, and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the common stock, in accordance with Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:

  Over-allotment involves sales by the underwriters of shares in excess of the number of shares the underwriters are obligated to purchase, which creates a syndicate short position. The short position may be either a covered short position or a naked short position. In a covered short position, the number of shares over-allotted by the underwriters is not greater than the number

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  of shares that they may purchase in the over-allotment option. In a naked short position, the number of shares involved is greater than the number of shares in the over-allotment option. The underwriters may close out any short position by either exercising their over-allotment option, in whole or in part, or purchasing shares in the open market.

  Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specific maximum.
 
  Syndicate short covering transactions involve purchases of common stock in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. In determining the source of shares to close out the short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the over-allotment option. If the underwriters sell more shares than could be covered by the over-allotment option, a naked short position, the position can only be closed out by buying shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.
 
  Penalty bids permit the representatives to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the common stock originally sold by the syndicate member is purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.

        These stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our common stock or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our common stock. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. These transactions may be effected on the New York Stock Exchange or otherwise and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.

        Neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. In addition, neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in these stabilizing transactions or that any transaction, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

Listing

        We plan to file an application for listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BSS.” In connection with that listing, the underwriters have undertaken to sell the minimum number of shares to the minimum number of beneficial owners necessary to meet the New York Stock Exchange listing requirements.

Stamp Taxes

        Purchasers of the shares of our common stock offered by this prospectus may be required to pay stamp taxes and other charges under the laws and practices of the country of purchase, in addition of the offering price listed on the cover of this prospectus.

Offers And Sales In Canada

        This prospectus is not, and under no circumstances is it to be construed as, an advertisement or a public offering of shares in Canada or any province or territory thereof. Any offer or sale of shares in Canada will be made only under an exemption from the requirements to file a prospectus or prospectus supplement and an exemption from the dealer registration requirement in the relevant province or territory of Canada in which such offer or sale is made.

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Directed Share Program

        At our request, the underwriters have reserved up to            shares, or 5% of our common stock offered by this prospectus, for sale under a directed share program. All of the persons purchasing the reserved shares must commit to purchase no later than the close of business on the day following the date of this prospectus. The number of shares available for sale to the general public will be reduced to the extent these persons purchase the reserved shares. Shares committed to be purchased by directed share participants that are not so purchased will be reallocated for sale to the general public in the offering. All sales of shares pursuant to the directed share program will be made at the initial public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

Discretionary Sales

        The underwriters have informed us that they do not intend to confirm sales to discretionary accounts that exceed 5% of the total number of shares of our common stock offered by them.

Electronic Distribution

        A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the Internet sites or through other online services maintained by one or more of the underwriters and/or selling group members participating in this offering, or by their affiliates. In those cases, prospective investors may view offering terms online and, depending upon the particular underwriter or selling group member, prospective investors may be allowed to place orders online. The underwriters may agree with us to allocate a specific number of shares for sale to online brokerage account holders. Any such allocation for online distributions will be made by the underwriters on the same basis as other allocations.

        Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on any underwriter’s or selling group member’s website and any information contained in any other website maintained by an underwriter or selling group member is not part of this prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved and/or endorsed by us or any underwriter or selling group member in its capacity as underwriter or selling group member and should not be relied upon by investors.

        First Union Securities, Inc., one of the underwriters, is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation. Wachovia Corporation conducts its investment banking, institutional and capital markets businesses through its various bank, broker-dealer and nonbank subsidiaries (including First Union Securities, Inc.) under the trade name of Wachovia Securities. Any references to Wachovia Securities in this prospectus, however, do not include Wachovia Securities, Inc., member NASD/SIPC and a separate broker-dealer subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation and an affiliate of First Union Securities, Inc., which may or may not be participating as a selling dealer in the distribution of the securities offered by this prospectus.

LEGAL MATTERS

        The validity of the issuance of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Certain legal matters in connection with this offering are being passed upon for the underwriters by Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, Boston, Massachusetts.

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EXPERTS

        The audited consolidated financial statements of Bentley Systems, Incorporated included in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, as indicated in their report with respect thereto and are included herein in reliance upon the authority of said firm as experts in giving said reports.

        The audited financial statements of Geopak Corporation included in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, as indicated in their report with respect thereto and are included herein in reliance upon the authority of said firm as experts in giving said reports.

        The audited consolidated financial statements of Rebis included in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement have been audited by Arthur Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, as indicated in their report with respect thereto and are included herein in reliance upon the authority of said firm as experts in giving said reports.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

        We have filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the common stock offered by this prospectus. This prospectus does not contain all of the information provided in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract or other document referred to are not necessarily complete and in each instance we refer you to the copy of the contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, each such statement being qualified in all respects by such reference. For further information with respect to us and the common stock offered by this prospectus, we refer you to the registration statement, exhibits and schedules.

        You may inspect a copy of the registration statement without charge at the public reference facility maintained by the SEC in Room 1024, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain copies of all or any part of the registration statement from that facility upon payment of the prescribed fees. You may obtain information on the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains a website at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC. Upon completion of this offering, we will become subject to the informational and periodic reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and, in accordance therewith, will file periodic reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC.

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BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

           
Bentley Systems, Incorporated and subsidiaries:
       
 
Report of independent public accountants
    F-2  
 
Consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2000 and 2001
    F-3  
 
Consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 1999, 2000 and 2001
    F-4  
 
Consolidated statements of redeemable convertible securities and stockholders’ equity for the years ended December 31, 1999, 2000 and 2001
    F-5  
 
Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 1999, 2000 and 2001
    F-7  
 
Notes to consolidated financial statements
    F-8  
GEOPAK Corporation:
       
 
Report of independent public accountants
    F-34  
 
Balance sheets as of December 31, 2000 and August 31, 2001
    F-35  
 
Statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2000 and for the eight months ended August 31, 2001
    F-36  
 
Statements of stockholders’ equity for the year ended December 31, 2000 and for the eight months ended August 31, 2001
    F-37  
 
Statements of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2000 and for the eight months ended August 31, 2001
    F-38  
 
Notes to financial statements
    F-39  
Rebis and subsidiaries:
       
 
Report of independent public accountants
    F-48  
 
Consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2000 and 2001 and December 31, 2001 (unaudited)
    F-49  
 
Consolidated statements of operations for the years ended September 30, 2000 and 2001 and three months ended December 31, 2000 (unaudited) and 2001 (unaudited)
    F-50  
 
Consolidated statements of redeemable convertible stock and shareholders’ equity (deficit) for years ended September 30, 2000 and 2001 and three months ended December 31, 2001 (unaudited)
    F-51  
 
Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended September 30, 2000 and 2001 and three months ended December 31, 2000 (unaudited) and 2001 (unaudited)
    F-52  
 
Notes to consolidated financial statements
    F-53  
Pro forma combined condensed financial statements (unaudited):
       
 
Basis of presentation
    F-63  
 
Pro forma combined condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2001 (unaudited)
    F-64  
 
Pro forma combined condensed statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2001 (unaudited)
    F-65  
 
Notes to pro forma combined condensed financial statements (unaudited)
    F-66  

F-1


 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

To Bentley Systems, Incorporated:

        We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Bentley Systems, Incorporated (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2000 and 2001, and the related consolidated statements of operations, redeemable convertible securities and stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2001. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

        We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

        In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Bentley Systems, Incorporated and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2000 and 2001, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period then ended December 31, 2001 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

  Arthur Andersen LLP                              

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

March 11, 2002

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BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share data)

                           
December 31, Pro Forma

Stockholders’
2000 2001 Equity (Note 1)



(unaudited)
ASSETS
                       
Current assets:
                       
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 6,437     $ 12,994          
 
Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $6,710 and $7,443
    61,514       62,183          
 
Income tax receivable
    2,300       2,059          
 
Deferred income taxes
    6,041       6,133          
 
Prepaid and other current assets
    7,202       4,378          
     
     
         
Total current assets
    83,494       87,747          
Property and equipment, net
    20,757       19,679          
Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization of $9,436 and $13,897
    31,718       49,665          
Investments in affiliates
    2,407       2,122          
Other assets
    2,094       2,525          
     
     
         
Total Assets
  $ 140,470     $ 161,738          
     
     
         
LIABILITIES, REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
                       
Current liabilities:
                       
 
Short-term borrowings
  $ 17,623     $ 357          
 
Current maturities of long-term debt
    5,084       9,774          
 
Accounts payable
    6,441       8,273          
 
Accruals and other current liabilities
    18,905       19,320          
 
Deferred subscriptions revenues
    42,946       56,485          
 
Income taxes payable
    2,407       2,684          
     
     
         
Total current liabilities
    93,406       96,893          
Long-term debt
    13,560       14,386          
Deferred income taxes
    646       819          
Deferred subscriptions revenues
    285       3,012          
Deferred compensation
    5,265       5,261          
Redeemable convertible Series A preferred stock (liquidation value of $24,753)
    19,298       24,753        
Senior redeemable convertible Class C common stock
    3,785       8,690        
Redeemable convertible Class D common stock
          5,910        
Redeemable common stock warrants
    529       1,740        
     
     
     
 
Total liabilities and redeemable convertible securities
    136,774       161,464        
     
     
     
 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 15)
                       
Stockholders’ equity:
                       
 
Class A and Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01; 90,000,000 shares authorized (actual), 100,000,000 shares authorized (pro forma); 24,937,224 and 24,959,724 shares issued, actual;              shares issued, pro forma
    250       250          
 
Additional paid-in capital
    14,994       18,250          
 
Notes receivable from stockholders
    (5,922 )     (6,241 )        
 
Other comprehensive loss
    (6,797 )     (7,632 )        
 
Retained earnings
    11,498       6,254          
 
Less — Treasury Stock; 2,003,750 and 2,031,750 shares at cost
    (10,327 )     (10,607 )        
     
     
     
 
Total stockholders’ equity
    3,696       274          
     
     
     
 
    $ 140,470     $ 161,738          
     
     
     
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in thousands, except share and per share data)
                           
Year Ended December 31,

1999 2000 2001



Revenues:
                       
 
Subscriptions
  $ 90,915     $ 96,830     $ 123,642  
 
Perpetual licenses
    78,450       70,251       61,463  
 
Services
    12,854       13,143       17,505  
     
     
     
 
Total revenues
    182,219       180,224       202,610  
Cost of revenues:
                       
 
Cost of subscriptions
    31,366       29,682       25,476  
 
Cost of perpetual licenses
    19,403       17,718       13,095  
 
Cost of services
    12,636       12,207       16,110  
     
     
     
 
Total cost of revenues
    63,405       59,607       54,681  
Gross profit
    118,814       120,617       147,929  
Operating expenses:
                       
 
Research and development
    34,008       35,288       40,526  
 
Selling and marketing
    70,307       69,431       74,686  
 
General and administrative
    12,778       12,056       16,259  
 
Amortization of acquired intangibles
    2,475       2,682       6,487  
     
     
     
 
Total operating expenses
    119,568       119,457       137,958  
Income (loss) from operations
    (754 )     1,160       9,971  
Interest expense, net
    (1,870 )     (1,461 )     (3,462 )
Other income, net
    695             188  
Arbitration settlement, net (Note 4)
    13,563              
     
     
     
 
Income (loss) before income taxes
    11,634       (301 )     6,697  
Provision for income taxes
    4,227       859       2,612  
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss)
  $ 7,407     $ (1,160 )   $ 4,085  
     
     
     
 
Deemed dividends on redeemable convertible Series A preferred stock, Senior redeemable convertible Class C common stock and redeemable convertible Class D common stock
    2,396       2,396       7,014  
Cash Dividends on Senior redeemable convertible Class C Common Stock
                2,315  
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) applicable to common stockholders
  $ 5,011     $ (3,556 )   $ (5,244 )
     
     
     
 
Net income (loss) per share:
                       
 
Basic and Diluted
  $ 0.22     $ (0.15 )   $ (0.23 )
     
     
     
 
Shares used in computing net income (loss) per share:
                       
 
Basic
    22,658,837       22,981,646       23,161,495  
 
Diluted
    22,853,796       22,981,646       23,161,495  
Unaudited pro forma net income per share:
                       
 
Basic
                  $    
                     
 
 
Diluted
                  $    
                     
 
Shares used in computing unaudited pro forma net income per share:
                       
 
Basic
                       
 
Diluted
                       

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(in thousands, except share data)
                                                                                                                                   
Redeemable convertible securities Stockholders’ equity


Common Stock

Redeemable Convertible Class C
Series A Senior Redeemable Class D Class A Notes
Preferred Stock Convertible Redeemable Convertible Redeemable Class B Additional Receivable Other Treasury Stock Total



Common Stock
paid-in from comprehensive Retained
Stockholders’
Shares Carrying value Shares Carrying value Shares Carrying value Warrants Shares Par value capital stockholders loss earnings Shares Amounts equity
















Balance as of December 31, 1998
    1,552,450     $ 14,506           $           $     $       24,519,632     $ 245     $ 6,665     $     $ (3,438 )   $ 10,043           $     $ 13,515  
Comprehensive income:
                                                                                                                               
 
Net income
                                                                            7,407                   7,407  
 
Currency translation adjustment
                                                                      (1,688 )                       (1,688 )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Total comprehensive income
                                                                                            (1,688 )     7,407                       5,719  
 
Issuance of Common Stock in connection with stock option exercise
                                              33,750       1       85                                     86  
 
Compensation recognized in connection with the extension of stock option expiration dates
                                                          1,032                                     1,032  
 
Accretion of redemption value
          296                                                                   (296 )                 (296 )
 
Accrued dividend
          2,100                                                                   (2,100 )                 (2,100 )
 
Acquisition of treasury stock in connection with Intergraph arbitration settlement (see Note 4)
                                                                                  (3,000,000 )     (15,420 )     (15,420 )
 
Notes receivable and accrued interest from officers related to sale of treasury stock
                                                                (5,265 )                 1,000,000       5,140       (125 )
 
Repurchase of Common Stock from terminated employee
                                                                                  (3,750 )     (47 )     (47 )
 
Other
                                                          152                                     152  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Balance as of December 31, 1999
    1,552,450       16,902                                               24,553,382       246       7,934       (5,265 )     (5,126 )     15,054       (2,003,750 )     (10,327 )     2,516  
Comprehensive income:
                                                                                                                               
 
Net loss
                                                                            (1,160 )                 (1,160 )
 
Currency translation adjustment
                                                                      (1,671 )                       (1,671 )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Total comprehensive loss
                                                                      (1,671 )     (1,160 )                 (2,831 )
 
Issuance of Common Stock in connection with Profit Sharing Plan contribution
                                              63,568       1       387                                     388  
 
Issuance of Common Stock in connection with stock option exercise
                                              280,000       3       707       (621 )                             89  
 
Tax benefit on option exercise
                                                          282                                     282  
 
Issuance of Senior Redeemable Convertible Class C Common Stock and warrants to purchase 1,040,000 shares of Class B Common stock, net of costs
                75,000       6,861                   529                                                        
 
Beneficial conversion feature recorded in connection with issuance of Senior Redeemable Convertible Class C Common Stock
                      (3,076 )                                   3,076                                     3,076  
 
Issuance of warrants to purchase 988,290 shares of Class B Common Stock in connection with $32 million revolving credit facility
                                                          704                                     704  
 
Issuance of Class B Common Stock, exchangeable shares and options in connection with the acquisition of HMR Inc.
                                              40,274             1,904                                     1,904  
 
Accretion of redemption value on Redeemable Convertible Series A Preferred Stock
          296                                                                   (296 )                 (296 )
 
Accrued dividend on Redeemable Convertible Series A Preferred Stock
          2,100                                                                   (2,100 )                 (2,100 )
 
Accrued interest due from officers and employees, net of cash received for interest
                                                                (36 )                             (36 )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY — (Continued)
(in thousands, except share data)
                                                                                                                                   
Redeemable convertible securities Stockholders’ equity


Common Stock

Redeemable Convertible Class C —
Series A Senior Redeemable Class D — Class A Notes
Preferred Stock Convertible Redeemable Convertible Redeemable Class B Additional Receivable Other Treasury Stock Total



Common Stock
paid-in from comprehensive Retained
Stockholders’
Shares Carrying value Shares Carrying value Shares Carrying value Warrants Shares Par value capital stockholders loss earnings Shares Amounts equity
















Balance as of December 31, 2000
    1,552,450       19,298       75,000       3,785                   529       24,937,224       250       14,994       (5,922 )     (6,797 )     11,498       (2,003,750 )     (10,327 )     3,696  
Comprehensive income:
                                                                                                                               
 
Net income
                                                                            4,085                   4,085  
 
Currency translation adjustment
                                                                      (835 )                       (835 )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
Total comprehensive income
                                                                      (835 )     4,085                   3,250  
 
Cash dividend on Senior Redeemable Convertible Class C Common Stock
          —-             —-             —-                                           (2,315 )                 (2,315 )
 
Issuance of Common Stock in connection with stock option exercise
                                              22,500               57                                       57  
 
Issuance of Senior Redeemable Convertible Class C Common Stock and warrants to purchase 360,533 shares of Class B Common stock, net of costs
                26,000       2,387                   180                                                        
 
Issuance of Senior Redeemable Convertible Class C Common Stock and warrants to purchase 554,667 shares of Class B common stock in connection with the acquisition of Geopak Corporation
          –-       40,000       3,718                   282                                                        
 
Issuance of Redeemable Convertible Class D Common Stock in connection with the acquisition of Geopak Corporation
          —-             —-       480,000       5,659                                           —-