The positive reviews and product adoption momentum continue to build around the latest version of ARCHIBUS, Version 18, and its ability to reduce your total cost of occupancy while improving business processes.

“The Version 18 release of the ARCHIBUS Web-based application suite addresses the constantly growing needs of Real Estate and Facilities Management professionals,” states Steve Segarra, Chief Technology Officer.  “It features more sophisticated and accessible Web-based tools to implement best practices, drive down the total cost of occupancy, and identify underutilized capital trapped within their physical asset portfolio. All of this contributes to improved reallocation of resources to help fund core missions as well as mitigate risk and improve organizational efficiency.”

Now in place to help transform your organization’s operational effectiveness are new Web-based applications for Space Planning & Management (Space Inventory & Performance, Personnel & Occupancy, and Space Chargeback) , Real Estate Portfolio Management (Cost Administration, Cost Chargeback & Invoicing, Portfolio Forecasting), Condition Assessment, as well as other analysis and productivity capabilities, including Web Central Localization tools.

For more about V.18 business benefits and technical capabilities in this challenging economic environment─read our Driving Business Transformation V.18 brochure.

See our V.18 press release for a quick overview. Then contact your ARCHIBUS Business Partner to transform the way you do business by implementing ARCHIBUS V.18.

For a limited time only, ARCHIBUS is offering to ARCHIBUS users, running Web Central 17.1 or higher, free TEAMS Green Building software to help you achieve LEED green building status, measure and reduce your carbon footprint, and more.

Green Building is part of the TEAMS environmental software suite that recently won Buildings magazine’s 2009 Top 100 Products Award in the software category.

Act now to take advantage of this offer,expiring December 15th, 2009, and for terms and conditions, please visit: archibus.com/free.greenbuilding

Now deployed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Duquesne Light, Oklahoma State University, and Hamilton County, Ohio, TEAMS is a field-proven solution that supports your environmental goals. Read more about TEAMS and see an online demo.

Leading IWMS newsletter, iwmsnews.com, features an in-depth interview with ARCHIBUS President and founder Bruce K. Forbes. Read about the man and his vision of the future of IWMS technology here.

If you need more proof that ARCHIBUS is unsurpassed in both applications scope and ability to execute, you can now, once again, request your complimentary copy of the most recent Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems" report.

Request your complimentary 8-page report here.

Education.   Excitement.   Economy.

As the premier educational event for the IWMS industry, the 2010 International ARCHIBUS Conference also offers the excitement of taking place in that U.S. architectural and cultural hub, Chicago, May 2 - 5.

Once again, the Conference will offer four information-packed days of invaluable information that will help you enhance your operational efficiency and bottom line.

Watch for Conference registration to begin in late November.

But register for your hotel room today.  The Renaissance Chicago Hotel is both uniquely equipped to be a stimulating learning environment  and conveniently located in downtown Chicago -- surrounded by top attractions on the north edge of the historic Loop district.

To make online reservations for a room (Conference Rate: $199.00 USD), go to this Marriott Renaissance Chicago link which has included our Group Code: arcarca. Or call the hotel at +1 312.372.7200. The toll-free number is +1 800.468.3571 (for U.S. and Canada).

We look forward to your participation at the 2010 International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel.

If you missed them the first time around, or wish to recommend them to colleagues, recorded Webinars from our 13-part Facilities Management Best Practices Fall Webinar Series are now posted here (register to view). Gain insights into IWMS implementation, emerging industry standards, BIM, GIS and more by using these presentations as lunchtime learning opportunities.

An earlier Webinar, Reducing Your Total Cost of Occupancy, can also be viewed here (register to view). Learn about benchmarking and best practices for cost reduction from our panel of experts including: Christopher Hedley, Director, Investment Property Data Bank (UK); Sven Pole, Senior Managing Director, Global Corporate Services, CB Richard Ellis; and John Kuxhausen, CAFM System Administrator, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Inc. See it now.

ARCHIBUS, Inc. offers a wide range of training options to serve all levels of trainees —from novice through advanced— and allows you to design a curriculum that best meets your specific requirements.

View a list of upcoming training sessions for this fall and beyond…and be business-ready for 2010.

Deployed at Philip Morris International’s (PMI) headquarters in Switzerland as the main IS tool for General Services, ARCHIBUS is a central depository for all non-Human Resources information including office space, real estate contracts, and 10 other ARCHIBUS-based PMI modules for fleet management, publications, identification cards, events, work orders and other information.

The implementation of ARCHIBUS at PMI has allowed them to completely re-engineer some business processes as well as define country standards that can be applied to their other international units to promote uniform processes. Read about it here.