APPA Members' Data to Combine with ARCHIBUS Data Dashboard
 BOSTON, Massachusetts, July
16, 2007 - ARCHIBUS, Inc., the #1 developer of real estate, infrastructure
and facilities management software solutions in the world, has partnered
with APPA to combine APPA members’ institutional data with the ARCHIBUS Web
Central and data dashboard technology.
The resulting Facilities Performance Indicators Dashboard give APPA
members comparative information on, and insights into, facilities management
costs across member institutions that can be used to improve their own
policies and practices.
“The data dashboard,” says ARCHIBUS CEO and founder Bruce K. Forbes,
“provides an unprecedented and invaluable management perspective to our
target professionals that will let them understand all aspects of their
facilities and help them align their operational goals with the educational
outcomes of the institution.”
“Linking programming, design and construction, and facilities operations
in an integrated way is essential to achieving educational outcomes,” adds
Steve Glazner, APPA’s Director of Knowledge Management. To that end, the
Dashboard will:
- Place organizations’ performance in the context of peer institutions
and allow users to set target goals for future performance
- Give facilities professionals the tools to tell the facilities
management story and show their value and expertise in a new, very
credible way
- Ensure focus on all aspects of operations through the “Balanced
Scorecard” framework
The Facilities Performance Indicators Dashboard help facilities
professionals raise awareness of current facilities conditions on their own
campuses comparatively nationwide, and encourage careful and judicious
planning for future capital needs and spending.
The reports generated by the Dashboard inform and provide support for
future policy discussions by providing the research upon which better
institutional decision-making is based. By providing numbers to support the
needs, and not just promote the trends, the Facilities Performance
Indicators Dashboard also highlights the essential role of facilities
operations in the overall institutional mission and will promote facilities
professionals into key-player roles in the institutional decision-making
process.
About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and
facilities management solutions and services with expenditures for
ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7 Billion (USD); that
figure surpasses all IWMS segment competitors combined. With ARCHIBUS,
organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make
informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset
lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and
profitability. More than 3,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and Web users
collectively manage over 4 million properties, with organizations reporting
facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS
professionals, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 130
countries and in over two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston,
Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure
and facilities management technologies since 1982. For more information,
call (+1) 617-227-2508 or visit
www.archibus.com.
About APPA
APPA is the association of choice serving educational facilities
professionals. APPA’s membership consists of more than 1,500 learning
institutions encompassing over 4,700 individuals throughout the United
States, Canada, and internationally. As the premiere organization
representing educational facilities, APPA unlocks the door of the
educational marketplace for its business partners.
http://www.appa.org.
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