by AF 0510 d3 — May 14, 2010—ARCHIBUS Inc., developer of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, has bundled its high-end ERP integration tool—the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2— as part of the core IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System) product offering.
Over 4 million users around the globe use the ARCHIBUS intuitive business transformation platform to share information instantly, eliminate friction in their work processes, and gain new insight on how their real estate, facility, and infrastructure portfolios can be optimized to align resources with the organizational mission, according to ARCHIBUS. Many of the world’s largest organizations depend on ARCHIBUS as a critical extension to their ERP suite.
The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 allow these organizations to reuse information that already exists in their “gold-standard” data sources as well as share ARCHIBUS IWMS data in their Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, SAP, UFIDA, and other enterprise systems. The ARCHIBUS Connectors can enable rapid integration using industry standard transfer formats, such as OSCRE and COBIE.
ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 also enhance organizational insight by integrating enterprise data sources into the ARCHIBUS intuitive business transformation platform. For example, ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can re-use personnel data from human resources systems for occupancy, hoteling, security, moves and more. They can synchronize work processes with the most up-to-date account codes, or upload customer real estate billings and cross-charges from ARCHIBUS directly to the general ledger.
Ninety percent of the data needed for an effective IWMS already exist within an organization’s ERP systems, yet data access and data quality are two of the main obstacles for rapid deployments, says ARCHIBUS. The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can eliminate those roadblocks.
As a case in point, a global financial institution loaded over 100 million square feet of space, employee, and financial data into ARCHIBUS in less than nine months as part of a worldwide systems consolidation. While other tools on this project did not have the speed and flexibility to keep up with the volume, the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 easily managed the load. Moreover, the built-in ARCHIBUS Connector 18.2 rules sped data cleansing by validating the data against established standards; and further expedited the work with its ability to populate these standards from the data itself. The result was a comprehensive IWMS database that was both timely for strategic decisions and trustworthy for financial and regulatory compliance requirements.
For more information, visit the ARCHIBUS Web site as well as the company’s FMLink ad.
