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Now that you know what we do and how our business can help yours, let me introduce ARCHIBUS, Inc.
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For over 25 years we’ve been at the forefront of the technological evolution of Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management solutions. Among the many recognitions and awards we have achieved in those 20 years of excellence, I would like to highlight the three main milestones that make ARCHIBUS, Inc., the leader.
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In 1985 we launched the 1st Integrated CAFM,
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in 1991 the company released the 1st Computer Integrated Facilities Management solution to the market,
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and in 2001 we introduced the 1st Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management solution of the World.
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In 1980, was developed the primary FM Automation frameworks and foundations for ARCHIBUS at Harvard University
1982 ARCHIBUS® launched as the world's first integrated CAD and Alpha/Numeric solution for Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management applications
1985 ARCHIBUS® delivered as the first integrated CAFM (computer-aided facilities management) system
1987 Became the #1 AutoCAD-based CAFM solution in the world
1991 Named as the first and only Autodesk Strategic Developer for Facilities Management in the U.S.
1991 Developed the world's first CIFM™ (computer integrated facilities management) enterprise solution
1995 Launched ARCHIBUS Web Central, the world's first comprehensive Internet and intranet solution for FM
1999 Surpassed the 1,000,000 user mark—both enterprise and Web-enabled
2001 Introduced the 9th generation of ARCHIBUS, the world's first TIFM™ solution, for sharing facilities and infrastructure knowledge across an enterprise—locally or around the world
2002 Released full translations of ARCHIBUS in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Korean, and Norwegian
2004 Released the 1st Windows and Web converged solution, leveraging the power of Windows in the Browser and the easiness of the Web in Windows.
1993 Became a founding member of the International Alliance for Interoperability and the first facilities management software developer of the organization
1996 Received the Reader's Choice Award for ARCHIBUS from Today's Facility Manager magazine
1976 World’s 1st FM Automation Applications identified by Bruce Forbes (Founder of ARCHIBUS) – Wait for Jim
Annual global expenditures for ARCHIBUS/FM-related products and services exceeded $1 Billion USD, with over half of the revenues realized outside the United States.
In only two decades, ARCHIBUS, Inc., has become the world leader in Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management. Our products and services are essential tools for more than 16,000 organizations worldwide and 3 million enterprise and Web users. Over 50% of our clients are outside of the United States of America.
The ARCHIBUS Services Network is three times larger than that of all of our competitors combined, and the professionals in the ARCHIBUS Services Network have an average experience level of over 14 years.
ARCHIBUS is available in over 100 countries, with its strongest presence in the following areas:
Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United States
Europe/Africa: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Asia-Pacific: Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea
ARCHIBUS is currently available in more than 17 languages options, with full versions in: English, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish.
Our success comes from the success of our customers running their infrastructure and facilities, nothing more!
Now let’s see how we can help you achieve results such as the ones you just saw. Let’s discuss briefly the business philosophy behind TIFM and how it helps your organization.
The expanded discipline of Infrastructure & Facilities Management groups all those activities under four main business competencies: Property, Facilities, Technology, and Operations management, delivering all the processes from Real Estate Portfolio Management to Assignment and Redeployment.
The expanded discipline of Infrastructure & Facilities Management groups all those activities under four main business competencies: Property, Facilities, Technology, and Operations management, delivering all the processes from Real Estate Portfolio Management to Assignment and Redeployment.
With a Total Infrastructure and Facilities Solution you connect your organization’s people, places, processes, technologies and systems. This unified approach enables all kinds of stakeholders—from casual users to infrastructure contributors and managers—to work independently yet together, leveraging information developed by each other.
Regardless of functional perspective, optimization of an organization’s infrastructure and facilities relies on a central repository of consistent, valid, up-to-date information, which in turn supports solid, defensible decisions to maximize stakeholder value.
Because of the high volume of information, and the number of variables and stakeholders, a Total Infrastructure Management model requires an information system that integrates the functional groups and processes in a collaborative environment that
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automates data collection and maintenance,
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and distributes information and knowledge through the organization to support the decision-making process.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management Solution in the World.
And an architecture that orchestrates the stack and reduce friction.
Evidently, an infrastructure optimization project has a major impact in the performance of the organization. For instance, reducing your space you do not only reduce your overhead, but also reduce direct costs such as cleaning and maintenance, protecting current asset and ultimately delivering value to the bottom line.
Now let’s take a look at ARCHIBUS, and see what makes our application different from any other in the market.
To implement a TIFM model, you need a broad suite of applications to build a centralized and integrated information system where you can hold all infrastructure and facilities data. At the same time, you need that system to be able to integrate with the other corporate information systems, so you can provide infrastructure and facilities-related information to different stakeholders throughout the organization.
ARCHIBUS is the foundation for TIFM. An information system capable of providing the infrastructure, standards, best practices, and process to manage your infrastructure and facilities following the TIFM model.
Historically, the development of facilities management applications and technology, has evolved during the past decade focused on one or two of the functional domains—representing a certain organizational usage or function by end users.
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ARCHIBUS is a complete and integrated solution unmatched in the industry today. Today’s organizations need a Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM) solution that can support any or all of the functional domains in any combination for any given application.
ARCHIBUS is the only solution available today that provides a holistic approach to Facilities and Infrastructure life cycle management. The ARCHIBUS family of tightly integrated applications and activities deliver comprehensive solutions and capabilities. This single solution is simple to install and use, scales to grow with your organization, and provides flexible cost-effective add-on options that extend its benefits throughout an enterprise.
ARCHIBUS acts as the unifying solution that connects “islands of automation” of legacy systems within an organization. Whether you have an existing building automation, ERP, IT Infrastructure, CMMS, or Help Desk systems, ARCHIBUS helps integrate these diverse applications to provide a central information repository which can be used seamlessly throughout the organization, to reduce costs and improve productivity.
…or any combination.
Most organizations will find their needs fall somewhere between total Windows and total Web deployments. Remote and collaborative users will find the convenient thin-profile Web client feature as an attractive deployment option, providing on-demand access to information, anywhere in the world. Alternatively, Space Planners or CAD Specialists—typically heavy users may still favor the power and speed of the Windows deployment.
The role-based presentation layer eases usability and reduce implementation time and costs.
Dashboard example:
Dashboards are flexible windows into the “hotlists” for each role or user.
They focus the hundreds of objects, thousands of data elements, and thousands of views down to the handful that each user needs to move their assignments towards the overall business mission forward.
Dashboards can incorporate live business analysis results and drill down into details.
Dashboards can also use any of the forms to view reports, edit data, initiate or forward workflow items.
Views:
Every element on the screen is presented by a view.
Views can incorporate external content portal style.
Views can also themselves be incorporated into any web site or portal.
Since views can access all business analysis, report, edit form, and workflow features; this means that _all_ ARCHIBUS features can be flexibly delivered and embedded.
Security:
All elements on the screen – views, commands, workflow buttons, fields, tasks, tabs – are filtered through ARCHIBUS security.
The security encompasses login security, process assignment, virtual private ARCHIBUS data partitioning, and hierarchical security by group and role.
The security filters data that isn’t necessary to a user’s mission assignments so that they are not distracted by tasks, locations, asset, and other information for other users, sites, or organizations.
The security filters elements – tasks, data fields, etc. – as well. You can’t access tasks or processes you aren’t assigned. If you don’t have edit rights to a data field, you can’t change it. If you don’t have review rights, you can’t see it.
ARCHIBUS includes an award-winning bi-directional integration mechanism with Autodesk’s AutoCAD. Whether you select an object in the drawing,
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or a record in the grid
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you get the linked object in the other environment.
Dashboards – Historic and trend analysis reports that justify strategic planning activities.
The only good architecture for delivering complete functionality is one where each functional domain can be:
Mixed-and-matched seamlessly for users, where the addition of each new domain or process adds functionality to the existing users
Expressed through a single unified interface to maximize ease of use and user acceptance
Delivered on top of a single, integrated backplane that unifies the metadata, security and user profiles, ensuring a single version of the truth throughout the organization, and minimizing administration and maintenance efforts by the IT department
ARCHIBUS delivers each domain uniquely well. Only the ARCHIBUS architecture can deliver everything on a single unified backplane and through a unified set of user interfaces. All other applications in the market are fragmented along domains or processes, such that they impose different user interfaces, different metadata and different security.
Ease of integration is the prerequisite for e-business. ARCHIBUS makes it easier to adapt to changing business requirements as company strategy changes and business demands fluctuate. The ARCHIBUS Open System Architecture brings legacy systems into one single enterprise solution, integrating them with other existing systems and with ARCHIBUS applications and activities.
Incorporates industry standards such SOA/WebServices and XML for optimum interoperability. All applications are fully accessible via the Web.
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With ARCHIBUS the benefits of being ready to use, “out-of-the-box”, can be measured in time to get to production phase:
Embedded standards and best practices – Significantly decrease development time
Over 10,000 reports ready to use “out-of-the-box” – Significantly reduce implementation time
Native AutoCAD® bi-directional connection – Reduces implementation time
Massive data import through various mechanisms and interfaces - Reduces implementation time
A graphic interface for every user – Reduces training costs, downtime, and increases productivity delivering information more quickly to the user
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In summary, our customers can get the investment in ARCHIBUS paid-back before the competition can get their application into production.
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Now that we have discussed what differentiates ARCHIBUS let’s better understand the process behind deployment of the solution.
But where to start?
There are many questions, and answering all at the same time can be overwhelming and distressful. Therefore you need a process to address them in a way you can manage it.
The success in an implementation project is directly linked to the process and methodology used. The ARCHIBUS deployment community has on average 14+ years of experience implementing solutions for a diversity of customers across the world. They follow a process that has proven to achieve positive returns on investment in typically 6 months or less.
There are several actions that you should execute before making a decision on a solution. The more time and effort you invest in securing executive-level support and allocating enough funds the lesser the risk of failure.
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An ARCHIBUS Business Partner can guide you through the rest of the process to assure you achieve your goals.
Based on our deployment capability breadth and depth, as well as the most fully defined software schema, and “out-of-the-box” reporting, tangible results can easily be achieved in 90 days or less.
