November 12, 2003—VFA, Inc. has announced the availability of VFA.facility Version 6, its core software platform and integral component of its leading Capital Planning and Asset Management Solutions. Now based on J2EE technology, VFA.facility is more extensive, robust and versatile than before, containing new and enhanced features for application integration, expanded asset classes and user-defined benchmarks and reporting.
As a scalable enterprise application, VFA.facility now provides facility managers with a single tool that enables them to manage, plan, and implement strategies for facility and utility infrastructure assets, as well as facilities security data to mitigate total asset risk and vulnerability.
The Web-based software now includes utility infrastructure asset classes, such as steam distribution, electrical distribution, chilled water, roadways and sidewalks, to allow facility managers to model and plot specific, separate renewal schedules for increased accuracy of budgets.
In addition, VFA.facility Version 6 supports and incorporates facilities security data within its centralized database, enabling facility and security managers to work together to implement a unified approach to risk management, lifecycle costing, project coordination and capital planning.
Key features and highlights of VFA.facility Version 6 include:
- Increased ability to configure and customize user interfaces—Provides an unlimited number of user-defined fields that enables clients to tailor the software to better meet and serve the specific business needs of their organizations.
- Advanced reporting, data mining and ad-hoc query tools—Bolsters and streamlines existing reporting capabilities, enabling users to obtain and report on information faster and easier than ever before.
- Extensive benchmarking capabilities—Empowers users to gauge asset performance and configure specific benchmarks, such as asset condition or mission-adequacy, in order to optimize capital planning decisions.
- Expanded cost modeling capabilities—Offers increased flexibility to create and adjust building system lifecycle cost models to more accurately forecast capital asset renewal and replacement costs.
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