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US-White Paper-Next Generation FM Software
US-White Paper-Next Generation FM Software
US-White Paper-Next Generation FM Software
management software
time to get strategic
Six ways you can use facilities management
software to plan for the future
software 4. Ensuring technology works for people (not the other way round) 7
time to get 5. Keeping the lights on 8
strategic
6. Protecting your workforce 9
Perfect for today, ready for Change your thinking, change the future
tomorrow In order to do this, you need to move beyond
All over the world, forward-thinking facility using FM software to simply maintain current
management professionals have turned physical infrastructure and control costs.
to facilities management (FM) software You need to look at how you can use it to
to efficiently manage their facilities and maximize the value of your organizations
real estate portfolios. Its being used to core operations and improve your bottom
streamline business processes, reduce line. This includes:
facility costs, and simplify space and
maintenance management. Simply put, Transforming the building infrastructure to
it has revolutionized overall workplace facilitate execution of business processes
performance and helped corporations meet and optimize collaboration between
their sustainability objectives. people.
Improving the internal quality of life within
But many facility management professionals a building.
dont realize that the next generation of Increasing the safety, both physically and
facilities management software can also be virtually, of a buildings occupants.
used to strategically plan for the future of
The future always their businesses. A challenge? Not if you know what youre
arrives too fast and in looking for.
the wrong order Look forward, today
In this white paper well look at how next-
Alvin Toffler, generation facilities management software
writer and futurist can drive a business forward in six key areas
that will change the way businesses do
business. Well cover:
1. Making real estate work harder With the right facilities management
and smarter software in place, you can strategically
The economic downturn caused many plan and optimize the number, size, and
FM professionals to defer building value of your buildings as well as monitor
maintenance. And ongoing global real their function and condition.
estate value reduction caused by market It enables you to collect real estate data
surplus continues to pressure organizations in a centralized, structured database
balancing their owned and leased real estate that immediately eliminates existing
in the best possible way. spreadsheets and local administration.
Occupancy and vacancy can all be
Pushing life expectancy to the limit monitored but more than this, it delivers
Instead of expanding their real estate, a full set of tools to help you forecast
companies are looking to maximize future demand for real estate, facilities,
their bottom lines. FM professionals are and services.
increasingly called upon to determine Consistent data and a compliant data
whether its best to maintain, upgrade, management workflow ensure integrated
repurpose, or demolish existing buildings and support for all real estate processes and
associated infrastructure. reliable management information.
You get proactive monitoring of service
To put this into perspective, approximately delivery and an accurate picture of costs,
85% of future costs are expected to go quality, SLAs, and supplier performance
towards growing people with only 15% which helps to reduce failures, processing
being dedicated to facilities(1). Companies are times and associated costs.
staying in their existing facilities longer. And Integrating Building Information Modeling
as we move into the next decade, the real (BIM) with FM software closes the
estate of many western companies will often information gap between the architecture,
be pushed beyond their initially projected life engineering and construction (AEC) phase
expectancies. and the operating phase of a building.
This means BIM can now be used to
The future belongs to the agile ensure facilities management impacts are
To make the most of these conditions considered during the design phase
(and the unknown scenarios to come), enhancing a buildings performance and
you need the agility to change as fast ensuring operations are managed more
as your businesss needs. You need to efficiently throughout a buildings life.
think strategically from envisioning ideal Next-generation FM software enables you
scenarios to measuring current space, to integrate your FM and RE processes
reconciling existing assets and equipment with smart building technology and your
with future targets. core business systems.
It will enable you to lower your
Next-generation facilities management organizations costs by reducing the
software enables you to do all this and more: number of point solutions you use. And its
configurability will help ensure alignment
A single, reliable source of quality data and compliance with authorization
makes your real estate costs transparent policies, evolving business processes or
and maximizes the financial, technical, changing demands.
and functional performance of the real
estate youre managing ensuring full Ultimately, next-generation FM software
compliance and alignment with your enables you to ensure your real estate is
organizations future strategy. able to adjust to your businesss changing
demands, even if expansion or new facilities
arent an option. And if they are, youll
have all you need to strategically align your
real estate and facilities portfolio with your
businesss future strategy.
Not surprisingly, Forbes has revealed that 82 Next-generation FM software will give
of the top 100 Best companies to work for you all the data and information you need
allow employees to work outside the office to strategically plan for a variety of work
20% of the time. settings, allowing people to choose the one
most conducive to the work at hand. And in
doing so, not only reduce overall expenses
but also foster productivity to move your
business forward.
Now is the time to get strategic New demands are being created which
The next decade is certain to be one where are leading to new service concepts and
business, industry, and society are presented whole new ways of doing business. And
with a wide variety of new challenges and its up to you as a forward-thinking facilities
opportunities. management professional to stay ahead,
going beyond simply maintaining physical
We can already see rapid changes due to the infrastructure and controlling costs.
accelerating pace of technology, the creation
of new, previously unheard of technologies, Next-generation facilities management
and new high value services we can create software puts the tools you need in your
with this technology. hands. Use it to think, plan, and implement
strategic initiatives to not only manage and
improve the circumstances you face today,
but prepare for any eventuality tomorrow.
References:
With over 30 years of CAFM experience, Planon is the leading global
provider of software that supports organizations in optimizing their real
estate and facilities management processes. Planons software has been ISS 2020 Vision Scenarios for the Global
(1)
completely designed in-house and is fully integrated to deliver reliable Facility Management Industry
management information. Gartner the leading independent technology smartinsights.com: Mobile Marketing
(2)
research organization has consistently rated Planon as a global leader Statistics 2015
in their Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems facilitiesnet.com: Microsoft uses big data
(3)
(IWMS). Planon has implemented its comprehensive solutions for over 2,000 to manage buildings
clients, supported by offices around the world. To learn more about Planons safebuilt.com: Training for the silver
(4)