by Brianna Crandall — December 29, 2014—ARCHIBUS, developer of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software used around the world, has just announced the latest release of its ARCHIBUS software suite, designed to streamline work processes through enhanced mobile apps, geographic information systems (GIS), building information modeling (BIM) and other features.
Real estate, facilities, and asset management professionals can expect to find in ARCHIBUS an intuitive business intelligence platform that will help reduce their total cost of ownership by connecting real estate, facilities, and asset management information with their corporate business organization and systems.
In this product release, ARCHIBUS has simplified integration with other enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems via ARCHIBUS Connectors that enable data-sharing with Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, SAP, UFIDA, and other enterprise or point systems. Industry standard transfer formats such as OSCRE, COBie, and buildingSmart IFC are also used.
“We are excited to bring this new release of ARCHIBUS to the marketplace. It is positioned to deliver to organizations worldwide greater operational efficiency and customer responsiveness through our expanding suite and the capabilities of our product offerings, management consoles, EAM and ERP integration, as well as many other enhancements and innovations,” said ARCHIBUS, Inc. President and CEO Bruce K. Forbes. “Simplicity through Intelligence is a critical element for the success of Ubiqitous Infrastructure and Facilities Management solutions.”
New productivity-enhancing capabilities of ARCHIBUS cover a wide range of organizational needs including the introduction of new features for the Mobile Framework Apps, the addition of GIS capabilities for geo-referencing everything from equipment to buildings, and integration of facilities information with BIM data for end-to-end, intelligent building lifecycle management. Capital project lifecycle management is streamlined with the new project management console that correlates and presents all information on a single screen.
A new generation of workplace services offers self-service requests for repairs and reserving meeting rooms, along with booking support services from practically anywhere in the world. The new product release of ARCHIBUS enables users to achieve their organization’s objectives by providing business intelligence to real estate, facilities, and asset management information for immediate tactical actions and strategic, enterprise-wide decision-making.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure and facilities management technologies since 1982. With ARCHIBUS, organizations use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return on investment (ROI), lower asset lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability.
More than 7,000,000 ARCHIBUS users manage over 18 million buildings and properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34 percent. With over 1,700 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 190 countries and more than 30 languages. There are also more than 160 ARCHIBUS offices and ARCHIBUS solution centers, with over 4,200 ARCHIBUS professionals.
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