The Blog for SIMEK Total Infrastructure & Facilities Management (TIFM) projects undertaken by SIMEK (M) Sdn Bhd
Track your assets using a handheld mobile device. With today’s craze over mobility and instant access everywhere you go, you should be able to save your time with external device rather than using the manual paper jotting process.
Read all about Enterprise Mobility for Facilities and Infrastructure Management (in PDF).
This piece of document (PDF) is written by Mr Izzaddin Mohamed, my employer. It’s a very informative document and if you need more information, you can always contact us. In the mean time, click Download It down below to read it.
In the previous post, I’ve mentioned about writing the difference between a web based application and a windows based application. We will try to dig out a few points so that it will benefit users on decision making.
Because of wide spread usage of the internet using only an internet browser, many organizations choose to deploy a web-based system for their management use. In a Facilities Management System, particularly ARCHIBUS/FM, there are 2 options which client can choose, the windows based is called ARCHIBUS/FM V.15 and for the web-based is called FM Web Central 15. Both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. We’ll discuss first on ARCHIBUS/FM V.15 first and then we’ll proceed to FM Web Central 15 later on.
Windows based ARCHIBUS/FM V.15 is favoured for “heavy” user since it has seamless integration with AutoCAD. The application is also much more powerful and more faster then the web-based. This speed up a lot of the process especially when it comes to linking drawings with the data acquired and is most useful for bulk operations. If there is a lot of changes need to done with the data, using the ARCHIBUS/FM V.15 is more practical. The downside of this type of application is, it’ll cost more on the licensing and a powerful workstation is needed to get the job done. However, comparing it with the speed and the production as a result, it will greatly worth the money that is spent.
Web based FM Web Central 15 is targeted for a wide collaborative and remote users. It is an attractive deployment option, providing on-demand access to information, anywhere in the world. By just using an internet browser, it will truely benefit more number of peoples. The limitation, the data accessed is limited to published data and the manipulation of the data is difficult to be changed. If you thought that is bad, well, it is meant to be that way as users using the web are mainly interested to get general data about the facilities. Still, the practicality is there and it will eventually benefit when it is deployed.
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P/S: ARCHIBUS/FM V.16 will be launched very shortly, I’ll try and get more information on that later on.