Sep 10 - ARCHIBUS Names in Gartner Leaders Magic Quadrant

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ARCHIBUS Names in Gartner Leaders Magic Quadrant

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BOSTON, MA, Sep 10, 2008 - ARCHIBUS Inc., the #1 worldwide provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of its most recent “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems” report issued July 31, 2008. “Leaders,” says Gartner’s definition of the term, “have strength in applications and platform technology, demonstrate a high level of quality in product reliability and service, have strong operational and organizational capabilities and financial stability, have global reach, and offer a strong vision of customer needs reflected in a robust development road map.”

“We are pleased to have ARCHIBUS included in the report’s Leaders quadrant,” notes ARCHIBUS President and founder Bruce K. Forbes. “Our continually enhanced software is the foundation for our Intuitive Business Transformation (IBT) initiative, an approach to making real estate, infrastructure and facilities management easier, more insightful, and highly responsive to organizational needs as demonstrated by its rapid deployment capabilities and other advantages.”

To achieve that goal of providing more sophisticated management of real estate, infrastructure and facilities, recent ARCHIBUS product additions have included the integration of new Building Information Modeling (BIM) capabilities from Autodesk, Inc. as well as Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities from industry leader ESRI, Inc.

The GIS data integration with ARCHIBUS-based real estate, infrastructure, and facilities data, for example, blends geospatial information with interior and exterior building data for more cost-efficient property management, improved site development planning, comprehensive balanced scorecards for environmental sustainability and capital planning, more insightful analysis tools for site selection and asset utilization, as well as improved operations decision support, among other benefits.

“As new technologies are developed internally or incorporated from external partners,” adds Forbes, “ARCHIBUS will continue on its aggressive technology roadmap to deliver a comprehensive, high ROI (Return on Investment) solution with a low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) profile.”

A copy of the 2008 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems” research note can be purchased at: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=158057

About Gartner’s Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission.1 The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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). With ARCHIBUS, organizations of all sizes and their outsourcing partners 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 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS users collectively manage over 5,000,000 properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in more than 130 countries and over two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software technologies since 1982 - when it developed the world’s first integrated CAFM (computer-aided facilities management) system. For more information, visit www.archibus.com.

About Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk has developed the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art digital prototyping solutions to help customers experience their ideas before they are built. For additional information about Autodesk, visit http://www.autodesk.com.

About ESRI

Based in Redlands, California, ESRI designs and develops the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology for modeling and mapping that supports better decision-making in government, business, and education applications. For additional information about ESRI, visit http://www.esri.com.

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