12.22.06
Posted in FMS Project, ARCHIBUS/FM Software at 4:57 pm by Admin
We had just receive an update from ARCHIBUS Inc. about their latest Entry-Level product line up. The good news is, the price had some slight reduction and more users can be deployed instead of the previous 3 users. The single site software known as the Express edition will now have a new name called Express 2007. The bad news is, potential clients have more options and that would make decision making a lot tougher. However, that is what we as the business partner is for; to assist potential and existing client to choose the right and proper solution for their Facility Management operation.
Facil-o-tor for single site is one of our best selling ARCHIBUS/FM solution. Here’s a summary lay down on what’s new on ARCHIBUS/FM software offering:
Product: Facil-o-tor/ Single Site 200 - 600
Target User: Facilities from 250K to 500K RSF, with a dedicated Facility Management team, who recognize the need to actively manage physical infrastructure
Approximate Facility Size |
| Rentable Sq. Meters |
25,000 - 50,000 |
| Concurrent Users |
From 2-6 Users |
| Database Included |
Runtime Sybase + MS SQL Express included. Other supported databases procured seperately |
| Database Authoring or Customization? |
Yes, with use of any supported authoring database |
| Web Enabled? |
yes for a single site only with purchase of Web Central |
| Application Functionality |
| Windows Based |
Web-Based (Web Central) |
Real Property & Lease Management
Strategic Master Planning
Capital Budgeting
Space Management
Room Reservations
Hoteling
Furniture & Equipment Management
Telecom & Cable Management
Building Operations Management
Work Wizard Emergency Preparedness
Condition Assessment
Environmental Assessment
Fleet Management (Optional Purchase) |
Capital Budgeting
Project Management
Move Management
Workplace Portal |
| CAD Integration Options |
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| Overlay with AutoCAD with Design Management (Included) |
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| ARCHIBUS Editor for AutoCAD 2007 with Design Management (Optional Purchase) |
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| ARCHIBUS Viewer for AutoCAD 2007 (Optional Purchase) |
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| Project/Record Limits |
| Number of Active Projects |
10 |
| Properties |
250 |
| Leases |
250 |
| Suites |
1,000 |
| Employees |
2,500 |
| Rooms |
5,000 |
| Equipment |
10,000 |
| Jacks |
10,000 |
| Furniture Units |
40,000 |
| Active Work Orders |
4,000 |
| Active Work Requests |
4,000 |
| Total Records Available |
77,000 |
| Self Training Available |
Learning Path and On-line contextual Help |
For more information, contact us and we would be glad to help.
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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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07.24.06
Posted in FMS Project at 4:25 pm by Admin
According to The Free Dictionary, a dashboard is a panel under the windshield of a vehicle, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes control instruments. So, basically in a software context, the term control panel is more appropriate. Anyway, a dashboard would fit in just fine since a dashboard function is to indicate the necessary information so that the driver or the user could make the necessary decision in order to navigate through whatever situation they are dealing with.
The Dashboard Spy is a blog written by a person who is a spy at The Dashboard Spy. I did a search for the keyword ‘Facility Management‘ to check and see if there is any software related to Facilities Management (click on the link to see the result). Only pharmaceutical facility management is found. Probably in our next post, we’ll give you a screenshot of the software that we use to manage facilities.
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