by Rebecca Walker — May 13, 2009—PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace, resource, and energy management technology, has introduced Workplace BI, a business intelligence tool that enables organizations to effectively monitor, measure and manage utilization of real estate to maximize value and reduce overhead.
Workplace BI provides an accurate view of both current and future real-estate needs, potentially enabling corporations to save millions of dollars in direct operating costs within their real-estate portfolio, says the company
Traditional reporting tracks only events that have already happened, whereas the PeopleCube Workplace BI solution helps companies understand how their space and assets are being used currently and in the future. It provides the trending information management needs to make adjustments based on projections of usage and requirements in order to defray unnecessary expenses down the road.
Facility management systems track data on space usage (for example, assigned or vacant), maintenance utilities and cost allocation. Data about alternative workspace, meeting rooms, and videoconferencing services resides in the resource management system. Yet another system contains data on actual utilization (e.g., visitors, presence detection, and energy usage).
Only when data is extracted from these various systems and transformed into useful information can it be used for tracking, measuring, problem detection, analysis, and planning. As the information is evaluated, trends emerge, and management can refine processes based on organizational needs or external impacts on the company facilities.
PeopleCube’s Workplace BI aggregates data from various enterprise systems and transform it into information that enables customers to measure actual utilization against plan, institute continuous process improvement, and achieve effective utilization of space.
For more information about Workplace BI, see the Web site.
