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ARCHIBUS Version 14.2

Effectively communicate plans and prioritize actions

The new features and technologies in Version 14.2 make it easier than ever to create and communicate action plans and monitor the performance of your physical assets and infrastructure.

Building on Version 14.1, which was released in May 2003, ARCHIBUS Version 14.2 takes advantage of all the advanced features of AutoCAD® 2004. The combined power of ARCHIBUS and AutoCAD supports both your personal working style and your specific business needs when creating, viewing, populating, and presenting your drawings and associated facilities and infrastructure information. Version 14.2 also offers access to two brand new ARCHIBUS applications: Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment.

Below are some of the new features and benefits you’ll find in Version 14.2.

 
Overview

Print-friendly features and benefits overview [pdf]

Availability


Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment applications. Gain access to these two new separately-purchased ARCHIBUS applications, available only to V.14.2 deployments.

Benefits: These new applications help you better prioritize actions and improve the condition of your facilities and infrastructure. Use Condition Assessment to manage deferred maintenance and capital renewal spending. Identify potential problems for correction before they become more serious and facilitate better budget planning and justification, improving your Facility Condition Index (FCI).

Use the Environmental Sustainability Assessment application to document, track, and rank details on the condition and use of physical assets and their effect on the environment. Identify which assets should be repaired, renovated, or replaced to achieve environmental efficiency goals and help establish proactive sustainability processes.

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A color-coded scoreboard lets you easily prioritize corrective actions. This Condition Assessment scoreboard highlights the severity of various conditions and the associated costs required to correct them at a glance.



Enhanced Dynamic View Analysis with drill-down functionality. Enhanced Dynamic View Analysis uses the deep structures and data dictionary of ARCHIBUS to generate sophisticated, instant analyses from a single, simple dialog. With just one click you can drill right down to the supporting data and graphics; a second click returns to the high-level summary.

Benefit: Quickly produce concise, top-level summaries or enable "digital dashboards" on your facilities and infrastructure portfolio. Spot patterns and anomalies, and turn large volumes of data into immediate business intelligence. Drill down on XML-based summary reports to reveal details, including visual representations of statistics.

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Quickly identify statistics in report format, such as room percentages by department
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Drill down on XML-based summary reports to reveal details, including visual representations of statistics such as this highlighted floor plan

Enhanced Dynamic View Analysis to XML output. Enhanced Dynamic View Analysis now features an embedded XML output option, and support for both virtual fields and unlimited-tier hierarchies.

Benefit: Sophisticated XML formatted view analysis reports can be shared with any Internet Explorer user. Users are no longer dependent on Microsoft Excel to generate analysis reports. Even non-ARCHIBUS users may be granted access to view analysis reports using the Internet or your intranet.

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Display summary reports, such as this employee count summary, in a browser format for easy sharing across your organization, when appropriate



Unlimited-Tier Hierarchies. Built-in hierarchies let you model and analyze complex, deeply nested relationships—such as the relationship of space to your global organizational hierarchy, costs to your financial accounting codes, or projects and tasks by work type. The number of tiers you create is limited only by your database server. A powerful tree-style interface lets you search all tiers at once and update your hierarchy by dragging and dropping sub-trees.

Benefit: Analyze tasks, costs, space use and action plans according to your organization’s own unique structure and/or mission. Easily run reports on specific levels of your organization’s hierarchies and create meaningful data roll-ups.

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A resizable tree-style interface lets you easily create, organize, and modify facilities and infrastructure data according to your specific hierarchy. Shown here are CSI code descriptions.
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Run reports on specific levels of your hierarchies to generate data roll-ups, as in this consolidated report on Remediation Issues and Costs by CSI Description

Complete compatibility with Autodesk® AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, MapGuide, and Map™ 2004

Benefit: Productivity improvements include compressed drawing format, reduced drawing load time, and seamless integration with the drawing tools you already use.

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Ensure simultaneous updates to data and drawings

Better Presentation Graphics

Benefit: Present complex, multi-layered information that reads clearly, even when printed small-scale or published to the Web.

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Add gradient shading and true type fonts to your drawings for improved presentation of information

Multiple document interface

Benefit: Easily compare floor plans by opening multiple drawings without opening an additional instance of AutoCAD. Simply cut ARCHIBUS assets from one drawing and paste to another, speeding work on multi-floor buildings or large floor plans that are contained on different drawings.

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Easily compare and work in drawings from multiple floors

Grid editing improvements

Benefit: Easily edit grid views—you can click to sort, set color/shade formatting of fields, and restrict data to suit your needs from the grid view. Quickly turn views that contain memo fields into easily editable forms just by dragging the row to the desired height and saving the view.

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The ability to shade grid views enhances the readability of long lists of data

Toggle among ARCHIBUS and other project management environments

Benefit: Incorporate your corporate intranet portal or external ASP—such as Autodesk’s Buzzsaw site—with your standard ARCHIBUS work processes.

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Launch Autodesk Buzzsaw from inside your ARCHIBUS environment



View a print-friendly overview of Version 14.2 features and benefits [pdf]

For more information, contact your authorized Business Partner or ARCHIBUS, Inc. at 1-617-227-2508 or info@archibus.com

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