Applications
"As for chargebacks, we’ve come up with an evaluation to determine the cost of offices and fixed those prices. Each week we run an ARCHIBUS report that now gives accurate information on the amount of office square footage assigned to particular groups or activities. From there, we have additional tools to manage facility asset cost through an integrated Web-based chargeback application."
- David Blain
- Facilities Management Group, Idaho National Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
Portfolio Forecasting
Evaluate, forecast, and allocate space needs and associated occupancy costs using multiple scenarios and time periods
Benefits
- Delivers structured information and decision support for space/master planning
- Provides consistent multi-year space/cost forecasts without having to use a CAD tool
- Reduces administrative costs through rapid projection and allocation capabilities
- Projects annual costs to departments/cost centers based on space allocation forecasts
Improve visualization of space allocation forecasts with drag-and-drop stack diagrams for group moves between floors
Accurately predicting space needs and occupancy costs is an ongoing challenge in dynamic organizations where churn, organic growth, mergers/acquisitions, and other factors create both uncertainty and opportunity. Web-based ARCHIBUS Portfolio Forecasting is an interactive forms-based solution that supports insightful space forecasting using alternative scenarios. It also allocates organizational groups to appropriate locations and links estimated occupancy costs to the groups incurring them. Portfolio Forecasting’s analytics and “what-if” capabilities let users review historical space/cost allocations and project future scenarios based on user-defined time periods.
