10.16.06
Posted in FMS Project at 1:25 pm by Admin
Last Thursday, we were invited by one of our software dealer who we use to buy software from to a presentation on “Crystal Vision Server”:
Unfortunately, we can’t have the breakfast because we are practising fasting since it’s a fasting month for us here. So, the presentation was nice. We learned about Crystal Vision Server and what it can do. Basically it’s a reporting tool with all the whistle and bell added on to it.
If you need to impress your clients or your boss or your investors, now this piece of software would definitely be useful. If you just like how the software can produce interactive reports, I don’t think it would be worth your money to own one. Eventually, it’s up to you though.
If you are interested, you can check out their demo.
Why are we interested to get to know about this software? It is because ARCHIBUS/FM, the product that we are promoting, which is also a reporting tool and Crystal Report can be integrated together. With so many functions and features to learn, it would take us forever to learn and practice this piece of software. Let’s just focus on what we know, shall we?
technorati tags:crystal, vision, report, reporting, tool
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10.07.06
Posted in FMS Project at 11:46 am by Admin
A few days ago, we got an e-mail by one of our blog readers. Here is the e-mail sent to us (the name were change for privacy issue):
Hi,
I’m ***, MIS Exec from Organization X. We are looking for a solution to migrate our old hard copy file to soft copy and store in CD or server. Because the old hard copy file already taken a lot of office space.
From your blog we found that a local company also needs to migrate their hardcopy to soft copy when implementing ARCHIBUS/FM system.
So we are quite interested in your solution and hope we can have more info on that. Hope to hear from you soon, thank you.
We are not so sure what kind of hard copy data they have sowe shall assume that their data is for property and facility operations. They can find other solutions if their data is for other use. Often we heard about ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’, if crappy data is entered into the system, crappy reports will come out. The first logical thing to do when migrating a hard copy data is to:
- Verify if the data is usable or not?
- Is it viable for future use?
- Is it necessary to retain all the hard copy data?
Other ways to do this is to scan each and every hard copy documents they have and store it in a CD or a hard disk. Then index the entire scanned document and store. This what libraries are doing for archived newspapers. As for ARCHIBUS/FM system, from our experience, only few usable data can be use for the Facility Management system. Still, we need to do an analysis first before we could decide on anything.
technorati tags:facility, management, migration, data
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10.02.06
Posted in Facility Management, Solution at 4:08 pm by Admin
This is a preliminary part of how to choose the right solution for your Facility Management Program in your organization. We are laying out a few more parts and finalize it when we are done. Our objective is to share as much information for your benefit. Let’s not waste anymore time shall we.
To determine what level your organization is at, we normally categorize the need based on the measurement of area of the office, branches or facilities. For example, the smallest solution that we offer is for facilities measuring less than 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters). To imagine that, a full size soccer pitch is between 100-130 yards (90-120 meters) long and 50-100 yards (45-90 metres) widths. So, the total area let’s say we take the maximum measurement would be 13,000 yards. To avoid confusion, we’ll standardize the measurement metrics to square meters. So, that would mean a soccer pitch would be 10,800 square meters in total area.
So, a facility that is more or less has the measurement of a soccer pitch, you can choose to have our smallest solution. Here’s another question, how do we measure the area of our premise? Of course we don’t want to do that physically, this is where drawings come into place. By using AutoCAD drawings, we could easily total up the measurement of the area with a click of a mouse. The solution that we recommend as a start is:
This small solution is limited to a single site or one postal code and can easily used by administrators and clerical staff. The only drawback is it can only be used by one person and has limited amount of records. Well, for a small size organization, I don’t see any reason for many people to access such information since it’ll cost more on wages.
So, instead of having many people handling the same information, only one person is sufficient if the person is properly trained. Either way, having useful records in a scalable application such as ARCHIBUS/FM is the best investment an organization, big or small would ever need.
The link below is additional information if you wish to further check it out:
Product Option Feature Matrix (Right click and Save As into your computer-PDF)
Product Option Brochure (Right click and Save As into your computer- PDF)
ARCHIBUS/FM Express (for further information)
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