by Shane Henson — November 20, 2013—Boston, Massachusetts-based VFA Inc. recently announced the addition of VFA FacilityView to its product line of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management.
According to the company, this Web-based solution offers quick and secure access to key information about an organization’s real estate portfolio. An extension to its flagship facilities capital planning software, VFA.facility, VFA FacilityView allows a wide range of business stakeholders beyond facilities managers and capital planners to easily view information about the organization’s facility assets, their condition and their funding needs, regardless of the system in which the data resides.
VFA.facility includes a wealth of information about facility assets, from their location and condition to the renewal costs of their systems to their capital funding needs over time. The information can be delivered to a desktop, laptop or mobile tablet.
Furthermore, VFA FacilityView enables customers to extend the value of VFA.facility data to the stakeholders it chooses, providing a simple, intuitive interface accessible on a wide range of devices. It also enables integration of related information from other enterprise applications, such as work order management or financial systems, putting this data in a broader business context.
VFA Inc. says a software of this type was needed because while only specific roles may be directly involved in facility capital planning, access to current information about the real estate portfolio is valuable to a wide group of stakeholders, such as executives, department heads, risk managers, environmental and energy managers, building occupants and community members.
“With VFA FacilityView, facility teams can easily connect their executives with facilities-related data in order to justify or enable strategic decisions, provide an understanding of investment needs and priorities to building users and community stakeholders, and demonstrate the critical role that facilities play in support of organizational objectives,” says Jerry Kokos, president and CEO of VFA, Inc.
