ARCHIBUS 18 Ships for Infrastructure, Facilities Management
 BOSTON,
MA, Oct 7, 2009 - ARCHIBUS, Inc., the #1 developer worldwide of real
estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, announces the latest
release of its industry-leading ARCHIBUS solution.
“The version 18 release of the ARCHIBUS web-based application suite
addresses the constantly growing needs of real estate and facilities
management professionals,” states Steve Segarra, Chief Technology Officer,
“for more sophisticated and accessible web-based tools to implement best
practices, drive down the total cost of occupancy, identify underutilized
capital trapped within their physical asset portfolio, and reallocate
resources to help fund core missions as well as mitigate risk and improve
organizational efficiency.”
New web-based ARCHIBUS applications for space planning & management
Among the new ARCHIBUS web-based applications designed to improve space
occupancy management, planning/forecasting, reporting, and decision-making
are:
- Space inventory & performance - assists in simplifying the
creation, management, and reporting of space inventory to maximize
efficiency and reduce costs.
- Space chargeback - streamlines the chargeback process to
increase space accountability and reduce occupancy cost.
- Personnel & occupancy - provides precise reporting on
employee headcounts, average areas, locations, room availability, and
occupancy to help plan for future expansion, consolidation, or space
re-balancing.
Major features of these new web-based applications include:
- Unified method of space inventory - simplifies space
inventory using a single methodology that integrates both rooms and
groups.
- Workstation management (“rooms within rooms”) - incorporates
more flexible room categories that allow users to calculate physical
areas, such as areas for housecleaning or energy management, separate
from occupiable areas for department assignment and chargeback.
- Improved forms and reports - makes full use of the
form-driven ARCHIBUS web central environment to provide intuitive
summaries and drill-downs by organization and space hierarchies.
- Enterprise graphics - provides interactive plans for quickly
visualizing and editing your space data and quickly performing functions
such as department reassignments. The new paginated reports application
uses the enterprise graphics for delivering integrated text and drawing
reports over the web.
New functionality: real estate portfolio management applications
New web-based applications have also been added to the ARCHIBUS real
estate portfolio management product suite to enable improved cost control,
chargeback, planning/forecasting and more. They include:
- Cost administration - makes centralized monitoring of
portfolio occupancy costs faster and easier through Wizards that track
and analyze costs by time, location or organization.
- Cost chargeback & invoicing - improves the process of
charging back costs, invoicing, and tracking receivables through an
easy-to-use interface to reduce administrative expense.
- Portfolio forecasting - supports managers in evaluating,
forecasting, and allocating space needs and associated occupancy costs
of organizational units using multiple scenarios and time periods,
supports cost forecasting and cost allocation.
New web-based condition assessment application, web central
localization activity and more preventive maintenance features
A new web-based application, condition assessment debuts as the
most convenient, team-based approach to evaluating the condition of
buildings and equipment across even the largest and most dispersed facility
portfolio. It assigns and captures checklist data from assessors who can
report results via hand-held devices and web forms. The application analyzes
conditions based on safety, risk to the organization, and other criteria. It
then groups them into capital packages for funding, as well as issues on
demand work requests routed to in-house or outsourced service providers.
The new web central localization activity in ARCHIBUS adds to its
reputation as a truly global, flexible, and open solution by allowing users
to more easily translate their own personalized extensions, applications, or
even the entire web central product into their own language and others.
For improved maintenance practices, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has also delivered
significant enhancements to its existing web-based preventive maintenance
application. The improvements include bulk scheduling of equipment for
preventive care, the assignment of pre-defined service level agreements,
scheduled generation of PM work requests, and work load balancing, among
other features.
Enhanced web central platform
The core ARCHIBUS web central platform now offers a wealth of new
features, including paginated report, a new and entirely web-based
reporting engine that produces high quality, editable reports in open office
document format. Results can be edited in Microsoft word with the option of
changing colors and formatting. ARCHIBUS content can also be cut-and-pasted
into other documents. Users can add floor plans and other drawings as well
as use the View Definition Wizard to define their own paginated reports.
Web central now also supports intuitive Adobe Flash-based interactive
forms to more quickly visualize a portfolio and interact with
representations of buildings without requiring specialized plug-ins. Support
for Flash-based drawings for work order locations, conference room
reservations, move management, and space management gives enterprise users
“self-service” access to floor plans, thematic plans, and graphics.
Beyond those advances, web central now offers a streamlined data
transfer action between web central and Excel spreadsheets, data export
improvements, and a cascading update and delete feature for one-step
entry and edits of data between tables related to rooms, equipment, work
requests, and more.
For those organizations requiring GIS capabilities, the new ARCHIBUS
delivers ESRI ArcGIS Online, which provides upgraded GIS-enabled views from
ESRI ArcWeb Services to ESRI ArcGIS Online.
New features for Windows Client/Server users
Finally, the new release of ARCHIBUS features a number of improvements
for ARCHIBUS for Windows Client/Server users including overlay for
AutoCAD 2010. The new version of the ARCHIBUS overlay application
upgrades the overlay to support the latest AutoCAD DWG format used by this
industry-standard platform.
Overlay for AutoCAD 2010 offers other new features including
enterprise graphics. It indexes AutoCAD plans in a format that
makes the graphics interactive and accessible from web-based forms and
reports in ARCHIBUS business activities.
Additional features include convert to unified method for
converting a composite inventory to the unified methodology, and an
enterprise graphics folder structure that clarifies the default project
folders so that the overlay and web central follow the same conventions.
About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and
facilities management solutions and services with the total annual
expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7
Billion (USD). Through effective innovation and business transformation,
ARCHIBUS users save their organizations over $100 billion annually. 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. ARCHIBUS is the world-wide proponent for the creation of
ubiquitous environmental sustainability.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 TIFM (Total Infrastructure & Facilities Management)
solution in the world. More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and web 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 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, visit
www.archibus.com.
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