May 2-5, 2010
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
Chicago, IL USA
Sunday, May 2, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
S-AWC: Advanced Web Central Training (End Users only)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Advanced Web Central (AWC) training is designed to update the technical staff of user organizations on the newest features and functions available in Web Central running on ARCHIBUS V.19.1. Interested attendees should already be familiar with ARCHIBUS coding of Web views and have a grounding in XML and JavaScript. Due to the limited amount of time, the AWC training will focus on topics determined to be most useful to the user implementing Web Central capabilities:
Sunday, May 2, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
S1: What's New in ARCHIBUS Version 19.1?
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS Version 19.1 is a major achievement and dramatic evolution of the ARCHIBUS platform that lets Windows and Web Central users employ Smart Client to access a rich set of ARCHIBUS Web services. You’ll discover a world of easier upgrades, seamless data transfers from Excel spreadsheets, and many other advantages to make information-gathering, sharing, and analysis more convenient for the design and implementation of more actionable processes that improve decision support and operational efficiency.
S2: Intuitive Business Transformation
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Intuitive Business Transformation (IBT) is a unique approach to information-sharing that extends an organization's existing Enterprise Resource Planning suite to connect strategic missions directly to staff, real estate and facility operations.
This session explains how ARCHIBUS and IBT capitalize on the Web 2.0 revolution by providing a platform for rich, two-way information interaction. IBT gives this information structure and meaning for enterprise progress. With its collaborative, dynamic 21st century architecture, ARCHIBUS captures the energy and innovative spirt of all staff, and all levels of management, so that they can proactively align to new strategic directives.
S3: Managing Capital Projects
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Directors of Facilities are challenged with providing facilities that function according to business requirements and budget constraints. ARCHIBUS integrates information from condition assessments, maintenance, capital projects, space inventory, and real estate portfolio information to provide a complete picture of whether those facilities are meeting business requirements. This session examines how ARCHIBUS Capital Projects enables users to direct available funding toward the correct capital priorities, and in optimal time frames, to satisfy organizational needs. If, for example, a single $50,000 roof replacement project is averted due to a better understanding of current and future business conditions and portfolio status (such as the knowledge that the roof-impaired building in question can be disposed of in the coming years without affecting business operations), then that single re-allocation of funds can provide a full and fast ROI enabled by this application.
S4: Managing Space & Occupancy
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Managing space and occupancy data to control one’s Total Cost of Occupancy has never been more important and now new ARCHIBUS Web-based applications are designed to improve your space occupancy management, planning/forecasting, reporting, and decision-making. This overview will introduce you to new applications: Space Inventory & Performance, Space Chargeback, and Personnel & Occupancy. These applications will greatly simplify space inventory management, streamline the chargeback process, and provide precise reporting on headcounts and related space information to help plan for future expansion, consolidation or space re-balancing. You’ll also become acquainted with major features of these new applications including: the simplified Unified Method of Space Inventory, Workstation Management for more flexible room categorization and accounting, as well as improved forms and reports, and interactive Enterprise Graphics.
Sunday, May 2, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
S5: Hoteling, Reservations and MAC
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Today’s organizations are becoming ever more agile and flexible to keep even with rapidly changing business conditions. Frequent telecommuting, large volumes of external staff and visitors, 200+% churn as internal groups are re-aligned to changing business projects, and occupancy rates of 50% have become the norm. Learn how to leverage the self-service and analytical features of the ARCHIBUS Hoteling, Reservations, and Move Management activities.
S6: Managing Real Estate & Property
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
New Web-based applications have been added to the ARCHIBUS Real Estate Portfolio Management product suite to enable improved cost control, chargebacks, planning, forecasting and more. This presentation will summarize their features and benefits, including: Cost Administration, for fast, centralized monitoring of portfolio occupancy costs using Wizards that track and analyze costs by time, location, or organization; Cost Chargeback & Invoicing, designed to improve the process and reduce administrative expenses of charging back costs, invoicing, and tracking receivables through an easy-to-use interface; and Portfolio Forecasting, supporting managers in evaluating, forecasting, and allocating space needs and associated occupancy costs of organizational units with multiple scenarios and time periods.
S7: Managing Green Projects & Utilities
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Many organizations have goals to decrease their carbon footprint, reduce their environmental impact, and become “greener.” However, assessment, measurement, planning, and execution are required to implement initiatives required to meet such broad goals. In this session learn how the integrated features of ARCHIBUS’ Energy Management, Environmental Sustainability, Capital Budgeting, and Project Management activities can facilitate prioritizing strategies and executing practical programs to deliver substantial results in meeting “green” objectives.
S8: Managing Operations
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Directors of Facilities Operations are challenged with providing a predictable level of facilities uptime and quality of service at minimal cost. ARCHIBUS integrates information from condition assessments, maintenance, capital projects, space inventory, and real estate portfolio information to provide a complete picture of risks and service levels that can be attained given different maintenance funding levels and business requirements. Learn how this integrated information enables directing available funding on correct priorities that optimize business operations and maximize the efficiency of facilities maintenance efforts.
Sunday, May 2, 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
CoE: Thought Leadership Panels and Workshops
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
It’s a more challenging economic climate for nearly every organization these days. That makes it imperative for real estate and facilities managers to meet such inhospitable conditions with real-world best practices and the right technological tools to support them. Organized by Centers of Excellence (CoE), these Thought Leadership Panels and Workshops provide attendees with advice from ARCHIBUS experts in key market segments about the challenges they have faced and how they overcame them through creative problem-solving using a range of ARCHIBUS applications.
S10: Real Estate CoE
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured real estate management users
The first part of this session will focus on the Real Estate and Capital Project Investment Cycle through a series of success stories covering total infrastructure planning and execution with tips offered on how to get started. The participants will form a virtual organization as they present their stories. Topics addressed will include: strategic planning, global real estate, the capital project approval cycle, managing capital projects, and strategic green initiatives.
Topics/Participants:
- Strategic Planning - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lorenzo Viramontes, Infrastructure Planning Manager II
- Global Real Estate - Kimberly-Clark
- Capital Approval Process - First Horizon National Association, Keni Evans, Vice-President Asset Management
- Capital Projects/Energy - Government of Yukon, Canada, James Moshonas, Director of Capital Assets and Core Services
- Strategic Green Initiatives - PNC Financial Services Group, Terry Maruca, Vice President
S11: Healthcare CoE
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured healthcare management users
JCAHO compliance and similar mandates have raised the bar in the management expertise needed to protect patients’ privacy and health while improving, through better managed facilities, the financial health of the institutions that are entrusted with their care. This session provides an in-depth look at what measures FM professionals at healthcare organizations are prescribing for better financial outcomes.
Participating Organizations: London Health Sciences Center, Kaiser Permanente, and other invited guests.
S13: Government-Federal CoE
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured government end users
Government is often unfairly maligned as wasteful in its practices, a notion that is belied by the extraordinary improvements in real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management that IWMS software is making possible at the federal level. This session describes some of those successes by your colleagues and presents the steps that are needed to put your own organization on the path to similar accomplishments.
Participating Organizations: FAA, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Johnson County (Kansas), SAIC, Autodesk, FSG, U. S. Green Building Council
S14: Building Operations CoE
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured corporate users
Using the Web to automate self-service work order requests, issuing work orders, and prioritizing that work via Service Level Agreements is the next frontier for many organizations -- but for ARCHIBUS users is here today. This session explores how all those capabilities can be implemented via On Demand Work, Service Desk, and SLA applications that, when also integrated with Preventive Maintenance, can put your organization on the cutting edge of operational excellence.
Participating Organizations: Gilbane (Asset Management), ARCHIBUS Solution Centers - Research Triangle & FAA (Process Improvement), Absis (Outsourcing)
S9: Education CoE
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured educational institution users
Presenters: ARCHIBUS, Inc. and featured educational institution users
Cost pressures on educational institutions have never been greater. That’s why strained financial resources must be allocated in the most cost-effective way to support well-maintained environments conducive to learning. This session looks at the challenges facilities professionals in education are facing in their respective organizations and how they are successfully solving them with ARCHIBUS.
Participating Organizations: University of Cincinnati, University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of Calgary (Canada), Curtin University (Australia), University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Monday, May 3, 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
G11: Welcome/Vision
Presenter: Bruce K. Forbes, President/CEO, ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Monday, May 3, 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
G12: V.19 Demo
Presenter: Bruce K. Forbes, Steve Segarra, CTO, ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Monday, May 3, 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
G13: G13a - Sustainability in Building Design; G13b - Smart Green: Case Studies in Implementing Energy Efficiency Initiatives in a Down Economy
Presenter: G13a Keynote Speaker - Michelle Halle Stern, Research Knowledge Manager, Perkins + Will, Chicago; G13b Keynote Speaker - Jonathan Estes, Author, "Smart Green: How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in Any Industry – and Make Money"
Monday, May 3, 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
A11: Takeda Pharmaceuticals Upgrades their IWMS System and Moves to Web Central
Presenter: Cary Vandenberg, Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Daniel Hayes, Account Manager, CFI
Takeda is a research-based global pharmaceutical company. They are the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and one of the global leaders in the industry. Takeda is committed to striving toward better health for individuals, and advancing progress in medicine by developing superior pharmaceutical products.
To streamline Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ operations, the company recently upgraded their IWMS system by implementing Web Central. That and other measures have allowed Takeda to realize tremendous value and cost-efficiencies.
A12: The Facility Management Department of the European Patent Office Implements Best Practices Based on ARCHIBUS Applications and Dashboards
Presenter: Christian Neumann, Facility Management Department, European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) provides a uniform application procedure for individual inventors and companies seeking patent protection in up to 38 European countries. It is the executive arm of the European Patent Organization and is supervised by the Administrative Council.
The EPO’s Facility Management Department recently implemented ARCHIBUS Space and Building Operations Management applications. But it also intends to roll-out additional applications in the future, including dashboards, to manage its approximately 8 million square feet of owned and leased space, to which it also provides cleaning, catering, maintenance and other services in support of the EPO’s 8,000 employees. This session reviews how the EPO is using ARCHIBUS in ways that are as innovative as the inventors it supports.
A13: Case Studies in MicroView Implementation
Presenter: Robert Stephen Consulting
The MicroView software is a fully-integrated, PDA/mobile device software solution for tracking space, assets, maintenance and much more. The product line has been providing turnkey value-added solutions to the ARCHIBUS community since 1994. MicroView software solutions maximize productivity in a wide variety of facilities business processes using ARCHIBUS software as the core. The MicroView software line includes PDA-based interfaces for ARCHIBUS featuring a large portfolio of modules, including modules for HVAC, equipment, work orders, electrical systems, mail/package tracking and most recently parking management.
This session presents case studies on MicroView implementations at Austin Independent School District, VMware, Oklahoma State University, and other venues.
Management
A14: Smart Client Overlay (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc
Learn about the next generation of interfaces for integrating graphic data with text data to manage your workplace. The Smart Client Overlay facilitates registering CAD drawings (.dwg files) and BIM models (.rvt files) to correlate data consistently across portfolios that are comprised of a mix of thousands of drawings and hundreds of BIM models. The Overlay also provides for cataloging CAD entities (blocks and polylines) and BIM objects (e.g. rooms, spaces, furniture, and equipment) with ARCHIBUS so that they are “ARCHIBUS aware” and can keep themselves synched with the ARCHIBUS enterprise database.
Technical - Administration Track
A15: ARCHIBUS Overview for New Users
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
This session gives an overview of the ARCHIBUS and Web Central applications and activities. The meaning of TIFM – Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management – will be explored, as well as how ARCHIBUS is able to deliver ongoing value to your organization. This session is intended for those who are new to the ARCHIBUS community; however, everyone is welcome.
Technical- Facilities & Real Property Track
A16: Web-based Condition Assessment (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
This session provides an overview of new Web-based ARCHIBUS Condition Assessment and how it leverages information about space, equipment and systems maintained in the ARCHIBUS database environment. The application provides a truly objective and systematic method of identifying and prioritizing facility replacements, upgrades, renovations and refurbishment of assets. You’ll also learn how, depending on assessment needs, users with Win CE mobile devices can collect information in the field and load it directly into ARCHIBUS. With Condition Assessment, you’ll be able to identify problems for correction before they can become more serious, preventing deterioration or possible damage to adjacent materials, or component failure.
Technical - Operations TrackMonday, May 3, 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
A21: Improving the Field Services Lifecycle with Mobile Technology
Presenter: Steve Lisle, VP of Western Operations, Wayne Liko, VP of Sales and Marketing, Horizant, Inc.
This session will provide insight on how traditional business workflow has evolved using mobile technology. Attendees will be provided with useful data points to build business cases around mobile technology, such as: understanding where productivity enhancements occur, how to tighten the work cycle, the key benefits, and which areas to mobilize.
Session topics will also cover: how to improve collaboration while providing easier and faster capture of corporate information; and how to extend your existing ARCHIBUS implementation rapidly and cost-effectively.
A22: Managing Health Emergencies with ARCHIBUS: H1N1 Vaccine Deployment at Hamilton County, Ohio
Presenter: Ralph Linne, Director County Facilities, Michelle Ray, CAFM Project Manager, Hamilton County Ohio - Department of Facilities, Andrew Schechter, Business Analyst, GBBN Architects
The always innovative Hamilton County, Ohio, Department of Facilities has recently become the coordinating agency that tracks and distributes vaccine inventories and other health supplies for three independent Public Health Districts in response to the H1N1 outbreak. This session describes how ARCHIBUS is a central element in the effort to protect public health.
Management
A23: Aeroporti di Roma (ADR): Rome Airports’ Business Re-Engineering Project Takes-Off with ARCHIBUS and GIS for an Enterprise-Class Solution
Presenter: Marco Loddo, IDV – Infrastructures Planning, Dario Castracane, ICT Solution Tools, Aeroporti di Roma; Alessandro Sassi, IWMS Manager, eFM
The Aeroporti di Roma Group is the State concessionaire for the Fiumicino and Ciampino airports in Rome. With over 40 million passengers, 140 carriers and more than 210 destinations last year, ADR will double its capacity by the year 2040.
First implemented at ADR over ten years ago, ARCHIBUS is now a cornerstone of an extensive re-engineering program that was launched last year. It entailed updating to ARCHIBUS V.18, normalizing maintenance processes, adding new functionalities, as well as rationalizing processes and functions.
This presentation describes how reengineering and ARCHIBUS integration with GIS has enabled ADR to manage all its infrastructures in an integrated and efficient way. Integration with PeopleSoftHR also aids in this goal by providing an accurate personnel inventory. ARCHIBUS completes this information with location data, providing a solid basis for move management.
Learning Objectives:
• How to improve efficiency through process reengineering, platform, system and application integration;
• Extend ARCHIBUS usage to implement and improve the Airport core business processes.
A24: Smart Client (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Learn about this next-generation Windows interface that provides high volume data management features. The Smart Client complements Web Central by providing the features that traditional ARCHIBUS Enterprise users currently have, while leveraging all of the capabilities of the “Run Anywhere” applications in Web Central.
Technical - Administration Track
A25: Space Inventory & Performance
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Knowing how much space an entity has, and how efficiently it is being used, is essential for managing the organization’s Total Cost of Occupancy. To expedite self-service access to space inventory and usage reports for decision support, ARCHIBUS Space Inventory & Performance provides an integrated Web-based solution for viewing and managing an organization’s types of space (such as departmental boundaries/rooms/common areas, vertical penetrations, service areas, and more) to ensure optimal space allocation. With this application, managers can plan for greater space efficiency by co-locating departments and identifying opportunities for consolidation.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
A26: Capital Project Management
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Directors of Facilities are challenged with providing facilities that function according to business requirements and budget constraints. ARCHIBUS integrates information from condition assessments, maintenance, capital projects, space inventory, and real estate portfolio information to provide a complete picture of whether those facilities are meeting business requirements. This session examines how ARCHIBUS Capital Projects enables users to direct available funding toward the correct capital priorities, and in optimal time frames, to satisfy organizational needs. If, for example, a single $50,000 roof replacement project is averted due to a better understanding of current and future business conditions and portfolio status (such as the knowledge that the roof-impaired building in question can be disposed of in the coming years without affecting business operations), then that single re-allocation of funds can provide a full and fast ROI enabled by this application.
Technical - Operations TrackMonday, May 3, 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
A31: Pushing the Envelope: Centralizing Real Estate at Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Presenter: Steve Farashian, Systems/Technology Specialist, Azariah Stevens, Facilities Management Strategic Analyst, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
In an environment of continuous change, the RE/FM team must support the company’s Global Business Plan by managing its real estate portfolio in the most flexible and cost-efficient manner. This session describes how that is being done at global consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark.
Management
A32: The FAA Streamlines Project Management with Web Central 18.1
Presenter: Robert Keefer, Facility Automation Systems Manager, Shelly Fuller, Facility Information Support Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration – Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
The Office of Facility Management at the FAA’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) supports a federal campus of over 130 buildings and structures encompassing 3.7 million square feet and supporting over 5,500 employees. Before the Web Central Project Management module was ever released, the FAA developed its own ARCHIBUS Project Management solution based on standard functionality with some minor customization. The FAA Projects model allowed it to begin tracking specific facilities projects with a focus on scope and schedule, work progress, and workload forecasting. The agency needed to track key work elements (Design, Estimating, Construction, etc.) on a wide range of project scope and types, with the flexibility to handle the various combinations of A/E/C services necessary to perform work at the campus.
As Web Central features and capability continued to progress, the FAA transitioned much of its project management functionality from Windows into the Web Central environment, which enabled it to significantly expand access to the project management tools and data. As more users began to rely on project management data, the FAA was looking for ways to refine the process and improve efficiency.
Web Central 18.1, and the View 2.0 technology, provided a new palette of tools to draw from in supporting project management needs. As part of an ARCHIBUS 18.1 upgrade, the Web Central 18.1 technology was leveraged to improve and refine custom Project tools. Operational efficiency, capacity and customer support have improved as a result of incorporating new View 2.0 format features such as tabbed views, enhanced dashboards, and better options for managing and presenting project data.
Learning Objectives:
• Advantages of using Web Central to meet business needs for project management
at the Aeronautical Center
• How Web Central can support managing project scope, schedule and progress
• Challenges and solutions for migrating existing Web Central tools into the View
2.0 format used in Web Central 17.3 and 18.1
• Practical examples of leveraging new Web Central functionality to improve
efficiency, capability, and navigation of views
A33: SAIC: Creating Essential Context for All Enterprise Asset Data
Presenter: Mark Eustis, Senior Project Manager, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
For enterprise managers, every one of your facilities depends on local infrastructure for basic services every day. Electric, gas, telco, wireless, and water are essential to operations. Furthermore, staff, partners, and customers all depend on those same resources.
If one or more of these essential resources were removed, challenging questions are raised: What would happen to your operation? How long would your office be closed? Will your people be able to report to work? Will they be able to leave their houses? How and when will you be able to restart your business? What are your alternatives? Do you even know where your offices really are? Do you know who works there? What's your plan?
The SAIC Percept suite connects essential business information with real-world infrastructure and properties data. Percept delivers essential management information in context with the real world.
With Percept, users can develop a robust, resilient and effective management program to help prepare for, respond to, and recover from situations that affect enterprise locations wherever they may be.
Management
A34: View Definition Wizard Reports & Forms
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS users generate large amounts of information that is key to driving their organizations forward. The View Definition Wizard ensures that you can post all that great information to the Web, with a step-by-step interface for defining new Web Views. This session will instruct you in producing reports, summary reports and charts, and even edit forms to collect information from your users at-large. Familiarize yourself with the View Definition Wizard’s pick-and-click approach for quickly creating these new forms and place them on the Process Navigator menu for you. Those with mixed Windows and Web deployments will find that the View Definition Wizard can re-format your existing Windows view files into these new Web patterns, so you can reuse your work when selecting tables and fields in Windows on the Web.
Technical - Administration Track
A35: Space Chargeback & Shared Workspace and Personnel
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Learn how to provide self-service access to space cost and chargeback reports; make managers accountable for their space usage; and, facilitate better decisions on space-related initiatives based on how current usage translates to costs. This session explains the ways to provide self-service access to employee and occupancy reports for employee headcounts, average areas, locations, room availability, and occupancy. You will also learn to utilize tools to plan for future needs.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
A36: On Demand Work
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Efficiently managing maintenance tasks is vital to keeping your organization's infrastructure and facilities running smoothly. This technical session on ARCHIBUS On Demand Work explains how this Web-based application automates all the steps of the on-demand maintenance process, from requests, to approvals, to scheduling and work order issuance, through completion and feedback stages. You’ll learn how On Demand Work's self-service functionality helps lower operating costs by enforcing process control and keeping information current, accessible, and actionable. This centralized repository enables improved forecasting and budgeting to optimize operational effectiveness and raise customer satisfaction levels by empowering requestors and communicating with them at every step of the process.
Technical - Operations Track
A37: Prototyping BIM (Building Information Model) Facilities Operations Systems
Presenter: John Sullivan, Autodesk
Prototyping BIM (Building Information Modeling) facilities operations systems will be discussed and demonstrated in this session. This presentation will include a survey of BIM initiatives at U.S. Government Federal Agencies including programs at the General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Air Force and other U.S. Federal agencies. With the advent of BIM as a standard methodology, new BIM guides, pilot projects, mega-MILCON projects and COBIE (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) will be discussed. The evolving roles of BIM lead the industry towards operations and maintenance of facilities with data from the BIM that will raise the management state-of-the-art for both areas.
ManagementTuesday, May 4, 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
G14: Centralizing Space Management and Streamlining Request Management at Northrop Grumman Aerospace
Presenter: Julie Brensike, Manager Systems Strategy and Data Mgt., David Migdal, Senior Facilties Planner Northrop Grumman; Richard Whobrey, VP Strategic Consulting, Bob Mostachetti, CFI
Northrop Grumman Aerospace (NGAS) is a business unit of the global defense and technology contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation. With approximately $10 billion dollars in revenues, NGAS is the premier provider of manned and unmanned aircraft, space systems, missile systems and advanced technologies critical to our nation’s security. The sector has 24,000 employees and 14 million square feet of space.
In 2007 NGAS undertook an in-depth Real Estate and Facilities business process and requirements analysis. The approach to matching business requirements to technology was agnostic and compared multiple systems from the Gartner Study IWMS Magic Quadrant. The end-result was the selection of ARCHIBUS as NGAS’ software standard for CAFM. Utilizing ARCHIBUS Space Management as well as Web Central Service Desk and Move Management, NGAS was able to accurately track its space while streamlining the move and facility service request process. Through the advanced ARCHIBUS capabilities, NGAS was able to standardize the facilities management process throughout the various sites.
Tuesday, May 4, 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
G15: The U.S. Internal Revenue Service Lays the Foundation for Real Property Management Success with ARCHIBUS
Presenter: Kathleen Foy, Policy Analyst, IRS, Jeff Teschke, Program Manager, Counterpointe Solutions, Inc.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manages a portfolio of 26 million square feet in over 750 sites worldwide. With a budget of almost $1.0 billion, the Real Estate and Facilities Management (REFM) organization manages real property assets and provides services to more than 110,000 employees and contractors who rely on it to meet corporate space and facilities needs.
This presentation focuses on the IRS’ use of ARCHIBUS to support its Workforce of Tomorrow initiative which was launched in 2008 with a goal of making the Service the best place to work in government and ensuring that five years from now the Service has the leadership and workforce ready for the next 15 years. Creating a Best in Class agency must be performed from the bottom up, as the agency is only as good as the foundation on which it is built.
The IRS' ARCHIBUS-based system provides a solid foundation for the accurate and timely collection and dissemination of facilities data to support strategic forecasting and strategic planning as the organization transforms itself into the Workplace of Tomorrow with the Work Environment and Workstations of Tomorrow necessary to support the Workforce of Tomorrow.
Learning Objectives:
• Discuss how the IRS uses ARCHIBUS to manage, control and extract meaningful,
empirical data about the real property portfolio and performance to achieve
maximum efficiency necessary to support the Workforce of Tomorrow.
• Discuss the IRS' implementation of ARCHIBUS-based functionality to support the
newly developed Corporate Hiring Data Mart and corporate hiring initiatives.
• Discuss IRS' use of ARCHIBUS to support the efficient use of space required by
employees on Flexiplace agreements, as well as other alternative workplace
strategies such as Integrated Office Workplace Alternatives (IOWA).
Tuesday, May 4, 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
G16: Ball Aerospace Makes ARCHIBUS A Strategic Player
Presenter: John Kuxhausen, Facilities Planner/CAFM Administrator, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.; Jane Bullock, Director of Corporate Development, ARCHIBUS Solution Center – Research Triangle
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. provides advanced imaging, communications, and information solutions to the government and commercial aerospace markets. Its Facilities department weathered years of time-consuming, manual management systems before implementing ARCHIBUS applications that made space, maintenance, and lease information accessible and reportable. Since then, the department has expanded its implementation as well as its role as a strategic player in the organization. Additional ARCHIBUS solutions include Move Management and Telecommunications & Cabling. This presentation provides an overview of Ball’s strategic implementation, and the impact ARCHIBUS had on their growth.
Tuesday, May 4, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
G23a: Best Practices - Real Estate (SP, SMP, CB, PM, Geospatial)
G23b: Best Practices – Facilities (SP, F&E, Reservations, Moves, EP, ES)
G23c: Best Practices – Operations (SP, Bldg. Ops. OnD, CA)
G23d: Best Practices – Technology (SP, F&E, Telecom, Move Management)
G23e: Best Practices – Advanced Topics (Customization)
Tuesday, May 4, 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
B11: A Major Catalog Retailer Designs an Energy/Utility Solution with ARCHIBUS
Presenter: Dan Longbrake, Director of Business Development, BRG
A retailing institution in the Midwest and the world’s foremost outfitter for hunting/fishing/camping gear, this well-known operation includes retail stores throughout the U.S. and a mainstay catalog and thriving Internet business. The company’s focus on the outdoors, however, hasn’t distracted it from controlling its energy and utility costs indoors. This session describes how this publicly-traded company has deployed ARCHIBUS to control its energy-related operating costs to improve sustainability and profitability.
Management
B12: Federal Aviation Administration: Federal Agency Operations Transformation Using ARCHIBUS
Presenter: Carolyn Sanders, Chief Information Officer, Regions and Center Operations , Federal Aviation Administration; Sean Conner, Senior Project Manager, Pyramid Systems
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of the Assistant Administrator for Regions and Center Operations supports all administrative facilities for all groups within the FAA across the US and overseas. This includes well over 11,000 real property assets. Prior to 2008, each of the 9 Regions and Headquarters was using a unique, and different, home-grown space and move management application to manage these processes. This decentralized approach provided inadequate visibility into the FAA’s portfolio and operational status. The decision was made that a Business Transformation was needed in order to unify and centralize facilities and operations management.
This session will discuss how ARCHIBUS was used to initiate and drive the FAA’s Business Transformation by aligning IT, Real Estate & Building Operations. This dynamic shift from previous business practices has led to an on-going, organic effort integrating these formerly disparate processes and groups into a cohesive whole.
Learning Objectives:
• How IT can drive Business Transformation, and why it should
• How Space and Move Management applications can open lines of communication
• How sharing standards impact cross-functional systems
B13: First Horizon Leverages the Web and Workflow Rules for Faster Capital Project Approval, and Significant Savings
Presenter: Keni Evans, VP Corporate Real Estate, Sherron Plummer, Senior Financial Analyst, First Horizon, Tim Robinson, Vice President, OnLINE FM
How did premier financial services company First Horizon save over $50,000 annually, get projects approved 4 times faster, and better serve their customers? Find out by attending this session, which describes how that company is leveraging the Web to improve management of over 600 owned and leased locations totaling 4 million square feet. The expanded use of ARCHIBUS and implementation of ARCHIBUS Web Central throughout the enterprise has made dramatic operational improvements and enhanced decision support that is accelerating capital projects while reducing costs.
Learning Objectives:
• Ways ARCHIBUS lends itself to custom Web Activities such as managing
Parking Passes
• How workflow rules can be used to drive processes such as the approval of a capital project
• Review of ARCHIBUS benefits for all functional groups within an entire department
B14: Creating Paginated Reports (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
The core ARCHIBUS Web Central platform now offers a wealth of new features, including Paginated Report, a new and entirely Web-based reporting engine that produces high quality, editable reports in Open Office document format. Attend this class and learn how results can be edited in Microsoft® Word® with the option of changing colors and formatting. ARCHIBUS content can also be cut-and-pasted into other documents. In addition, users can add floor plans and other drawings as well as use the View Definition Wizard to define their own paginated reports.
Technical - Administration Track
B15: Move Management (Updated)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Learn about the new Employee Move Scenario functionality, upgraded Move Management views, and new churn reporting features available in the V.19.1 Move Management activity.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
B16: Preventive Maintenance (New)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Designed for organizations that need to create and manage planned maintenance tasks, enhanced ARCHIBUS Preventive Maintenance provides an integrated Web-based solution for managing critical maintenance procedures and schedules, deploying maintenance resources, and analyzing key equipment and labor metrics. In this session, you’ll discover how organizations can proactively maintain their assets and efficiently balance schedules and resources, while minimizing costly repairs and lengthy downtime. Preventive Maintenance’s intuitive forms-driven interface, enhanced process and planning controls, and integration with the current Web-based ARCHIBUS On Demand Work application dramatically streamline PM processes. Those processes are also aided by several filtering and bulk-editing features to make PM scheduling easier and more efficient.
Technical - Operations TrackTuesday, May 4, 2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
B21: Northwestern Mutual: Enterprise Move Management - A Simple Task?
Presenter: Lauren Lotter, Facility Planning Manager, Dan Durand, Project Manager, Northwestern Mutual;, Michael Shearin, Solutions Manager, BRG
Move management is more than picking up boxes and moving them from one place to another. There are many moving parts and stakeholder dependencies that are linked into an effective move execution. Northwestern Mutual has been able to streamline their Move Management processes by utilizing ARCHIBUS software as a backbone to bring multiple disciplines (move coordination, ergonomics, and inventory control, etc.) into a centralized software-based workflow.
Learning Objectives:
* Understanding the intricacies of move management at Northwestern Mutual
* Incorporating warehouse inventory management into the move management
cycle in Web Central
* Lessons learned and additional opportunities to leverage relevant tools
B22: University of Illinois-Chicago (UI-C): Maximizing Indirect Cost Recovery in a Research Environment Using ARCHIBUS
Presenter: Shweta Chopra, Assistant Director of Facility Information Management, University of Illinois at Chicago; Marshall King, Senior Solutions Manager, Business Resource Group
This presentation will show how UI-C uses the data and reporting capabilities in, and linked to, ARCHIBUS to make key financial and provisioning decisions regarding space in a research-intensive environment.
Management
B23: Customizing ARCHIBUS without Compromising Capabilities
Presenter: Carol Mancuso, Software Developer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Working for a government entity brings with it a requirement for data collecting and reporting that is often outside the bounds of the “stock” product offering. Los Alamos National Laboratory focused its ARCHIBUS implementation efforts on minimizing customization, and accomplishing those changes it couldn’t avoid making in a careful, methodical manner that reduces problems associated with system upgrades. First it had to go through a process to convert an existing dataset from a legacy system into the ARCHIBUS schema. This created a whole host of problems with “orphan data” that did not have a place in the stock schema. Finding a way to handle those data led Los Alamos to some creative ways to use the flexibility of the ARCHIBUS system. It created tools and used techniques to speed up the process of enhancing the data model and providing tailored reports quickly. Finally, Los Alamos adopted conventions that allow it to migrate changes through development, beta, and production instances of the tool.
Management
B24: Working with Enterprise Graphics & Drawings (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Learn how the Enterprise Graphics feature in ARCHIBUS provides interactive plans for quickly visualizing and editing your space data and quickly performing functions such as department reassignments. The new paginated reports application uses Enterprise Graphics for delivering integrated text and drawing reports over the Web. Web Central now also supports intuitive Adobe® Flash®-based interactive forms to more quickly visualize a portfolio and interact with representations of buildings without requiring specialized plug-ins. Support for Flash-based drawings for work order locations, conference room reservations, move management, and space management gives enterprise users “self-service” access to floor plans, thematic plans, and graphics.
Technical - Administration Track
B25: Hoteling (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
With the current trend toward a workforce that spends only part of its time in the office, facility and department managers are challenged with utilizing expensive space more efficiently, while offering shared space to employees in a way that does not compromise productivity. However, they often do not have the right tools to tune their space needs to current practices. The ARCHIBUS Hoteling application allows employees and visitors to find and book available space for temporary assignments. As part of an integrated suite, ARCHIBUS Hoteling leverages an organization’s existing space inventory to reduce time and cost of deployment. By charging departments for their space use, the application encourages managers to use space efficiently. Reports on room occupancy and utilization allow managers to make informed decisions about current and future space needs.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
B26: Energy Management (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Because energy costs and carbon output are a top-level concern, many businesses and government agencies have issued high-priority directives to reduce energy consumption within their organizations. With 15% of their budget spent on energy, facilities departments often assume responsibility for this mission-essential challenge. Yet the facilities team often finds they neither have the information at-hand to make informed choices concerning remediation programs, nor do they have the tools to objectively measure the results.
V.19.1 Energy Management is a real estate application that fills this gap. It correlates portfolio information, such as spaces and leases, with energy, weather, billing, and building operations data in a unique way. It can map your current energy usage, project “what ifs” on different remediation scenarios, and measure the year-to-year effectiveness of your changes according to objective benchmarks. Learn how the Energy Management application can help you meet aggressive cost and carbon objectives.
Technical - Operations TrackTuesday, May 4, 3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
B31: Capital Steel -- Integrating ARCHIBUS Preventive Maintenance with SAP and PDAs in an Equipment Operation Monitoring System
Presenter: Yi Zhang, Manager of R&D, Steven Zhang, Director of R&D, ARCHIBUS Solution Centers-Beijing
Large-scale steel production equipment, such as rolling machines, need constant, real-time monitoring. At China’s Capital Steel, one of that country’s largest steel manufacturers, having an effective preventive maintenance (PM) program for such equipment means establishing clear maintenance timetables and procedures. It also helps if it can generate associated route maps to help craftspeople get to those intended maintenance sites in the most efficient way, as well as design processes for validating work and analyzing equipment performance. This session describes how a dynamic manufacturing concern, which also has interests in industrial controls and computer technology, is taking care of business and increasing its competitive advantage with Web-based Preventive Maintenance software that incorporates mobile devices and integrates with ERP systems.
Learning Objectives:
• How to establish an effective Preventive Maintenance program using ARCHIBUS
• Best practices for integrating Web Central with SAP
• Key steps to integrating Web Central with PDAs
B32: Lifecycle Asset Tracking that Enables Accurate Estate Mapping at the UK’s Government Communications Bureau
Presenter: Kevin Rankin, Systems Manager, Paul Chard, Corporate IT Manager, Government Communications Bureau (GCB) UK
The GCB has demonstrated to its Senior Management the value of ARCHIBUS applications as indispensible reporting, planning and documentation tools. Among the most important of these is ARCHIBUS Telecommunications & Cable Management. To ensure the reliability of the information held within a number of Gold Standard systems the ARCHIBUS system is seen as core to the filtering out of any anomalous data captured from network monitoring tools and allows ARCHIBUS applications to provide added-value data loads to an integrated Hewlett Packard Service Manager 7 Service Desk solution. The GCB see their current portfolio of ARCHIBUS applications as a starting point and wish to build on its solid foundation, and the GCB's10 years of experience of the product, to expand the amount and type of data the system manages.
GCB is a sub-division of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is working closely with a number of UK Government Departments, who currently use ARCHIBUS applications, or similar ones, and would like to manage their Telecommunications Estate and Assets in a more structured fashion.
Currently the GCB manages 100K+ cable pair connections and 20K+ assets, and captures configuration details within the ARCHIBUS Telecommunications and Cable Management module.
B33: ESRI and GIS
Presenter: Dennis Smith, Federal Government Business Development Manager, ESRI
ESRI, the leading developer of Geographic Information System software, was built on the belief that geography matters and its customers have obtained the geographic advantage by using ESRI software to address social, economic, business, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and global scales. This session reviews the latest innovations in GIS and demonstrates how integrating GIS with facilities data enhances an organization’s competitive advantage.
Management
B34: View Format 2.0
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
In previous versions, the Web server had a disproportionate amount of work to do when rendering a Web-based view on the user’s browser. V.17.2 takes advantage of a whole new method for sharing the workload between the Web server and the client browser, resulting in a more balanced and faster Web application. The new View Format is not only faster, but also includes frameless views, predefined layouts, pop-up dialogs, and consoles with complex restrictions. This session is aimed at those users who will be customizing their Web views in V.17.2 and beyond and will give them a basic understanding of how the views are laid out.
Technical - Administration Track
B35: Lease Administration
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Organizations with extensive lease portfolios are faced with the daunting task of tracking numerous leases with varying expiration dates and equally variable terms of tenancy. Relying on manual processes to track and manage these leases can result in errors based on inaccessible or inaccurate information, missed renewal dates, internal customer frustration, and possible monetary penalties. In this presentation, you’ll receive an overview of how Web-based ARCHIBUS Lease Administration provides a centralized repository, flexible dashboards, automated alerts, and more. Deploying the application will help streamline data entry, automate lease information-gathering and management, and improve analytic capabilities, all while providing a high service level at reduced cost.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
B36: ARCHIBUS & BIM (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
With the introduction of ARCHIBUS V.18, ARCHIBUS moves farther into the world of Building Information Management (BIM) by introducing the Overlay for Revit application. Like the Overlay for AutoCAD, the Overlay for Revit will allow users to directly access and update building data from a Revit project. Because a Revit project typically includes multiple floors, the power of updating data from a single file is passed on to the Overlay. In this session, users will be given a brief introduction to BIM, and will learn how to use the Overlay to update room, furniture, and equipment records from multiple floors with a few easy clicks.
Technical - Operations TrackWednesday, May 5, 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
G17: Closing Remarks and Award of Excellence Winners
Presenter: Bruce K. Forbes, President/CEO, ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Management
Wednesday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
C11: LORD Corporation Integrates HR and FM with ARCHIBUS
Presenter: Sarah Mackey, Human Resources Manager, Jeff Jones, IS Specialist-Technology, LORD Corporation
LORD Corporation is a large, international company that provides valuable expertise in adhesives and coatings, vibration and motion control, and magnetically responsive technologies. Its dedicated teams work in collaboration with customers to increase the value of its products.
With all domestic employees already resident in ARCHIBUS for facility seating management, LORD Corporation’s US-based Human Resource locations needed a front-end mechanism to “on-board” new employees, terminate existing employees, and maintain employee information. Using ARCHIBUS as the platform and interface with HR system to achieve those ends seemed like the obvious solution. This session provides a high-level view of the tools and techniques employed to enter data, manage workflow of approvals, request IT resources, notify appropriate members of the organization given HR events, and produce electronic copy of changes which are flowed to the back-end Human Management service.
C12: Italian Oil and Gas Giant Eni Implements Mobile Applications to Improve Operations and Customer Service
Presenter: Mario Alfonso Agostini, Facility Director, EniServizi
Eni is an integrated energy company committed to developing its activities in research, production, transport, transformation and marketing of oil and natural gas. The company is Italy's largest industrial company and one of the largest of its type in the world. In addition to being an innovator in its field, its facilities management service organization, EniServizi, has been responsible for an impressive history of business reengineering projects to improve the management of its many owned and leased properties.
Most recently, EniServizi embarked on an implementation of ARCHIBUS-based mobile applications to monitor its infrastructure, increase service quality, and provide new services for its customers. This presentation describes those efforts and the subsequent benefits that are making Eni more responsive, competitive, and profitable.
Learning Objectives:
- How to drive business transformation through the implementation of mobile technology for greater customer responsiveness
- Ways to provide innovative services through a more flexible organizaiton based on a Mobile Service Desk and SLAs
- Improving contractor management to produce better project time/quality management
Management
C13: GIS Improving Campus Safety and More at University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Presenter: Ray Dinello, Director of Facilities Information Systems, David Champion, Facilities Systems Manager, University of North Carolina – Charlotte; Stephan Cloitre, Senior Solutions Manager, BRG; Todd Crane, Senior Project Manager, PenBay Media
Since its inception, UNCC has been committed to geographic information science. Its Center for Applied Geographic Information Science is a leading research center that focuses on the use of GIS concepts and technologies to address spatial dimensions of environmental and socio-economic problems. It was, therefore, a natural evolution for UNCC’s Facility Management department to expand its use of ARCHIBUS Space Management, Work Orders and Project Management to the GIS world by integrating geospatial information with facilities data. The initial intent was to “geocode” all buildings, equipment and grounds to help with Work Order execution, but the extensive capabilities of the technology soon expanded the scope of the project to include 3D representation and visual querying of site assets. The link to the University’s Building Automation System is the other piece of the puzzle that makes this implementation unique.
C14: View Definition Wizard - Charts & Graphs
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
The ARCHIBUS View Definition Wizard helps you easily create complex reports using the power of this Wizard-driven interface. Learn how to use this important tool in a must-attend presentation.
Technical - Administration Track
C15: Portfolio Administration & Forecasting (New)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
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.
C16: Mapping ARCHIBUS with ArcGIS (Updated)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS has teamed with ESRI, the leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) software, to geospatially enable ARCHIBUS. These new capabilities allow ARCHIBUS users to review properties, leases, and buildings within their geographic context and improve decision-making with street maps, traffic, census, flood plain, satellite, and even weather information using the ESRI ArcGIS product. Show your space plans, department allocations, maintenance requests within the context of your entire campus to make multi-building and multi-site decisions. ARCHIBUS can geocode the interior spaces you already have in AutoCAD and Revit and link them to ESRI ArcGIS, so you can use your existing data to gain a broader geographic perspective in either ARCHIBUS for Windows or ARCHIBUS Web Central.
Technical - Operations TrackWednesday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
C21: USAA Leverages Data to Make Critical Business Decisions
Presenter: Jarrell Bairrington, Business Applications Analyst, USAA; Robert Verdun, President, CFI
Since 1922, USAA has provided a full range of highly competitive financial products and services to the military and their families. Today, certain products including investments, financial planning, life insurance and banking products (checking, savings and CDs) are available to the public. USAA provides more than 150 products and services to its clients. In this presentation, USAA describes how they have been able to leverage their ARCHIBUS data to generate key reports to make critical business decisions within their organization, and were able to do so easily and accurately with ARCHIBUS data.
Management
C22: Locating Vacancies at WW Grainger - Using ARCHIBUS Reports to Relocate Employees in an Emergency
Presenter: Sheri Leese, Facility Space Planner, WW Grainger
During a recent isolated blackout, Grainger needed to come up with a plan to get essential workers up and running ASAP. Utilizing ARCHIBUS reports, vacancies were located and employees moved to them with minimal disruption of business.
Learning Objectives:
• Utilizing ARCHIBUS reports
• Importance of space tracking to keep employee data up-to-date
• Best practices in data export and distribution
C23: Using ARCHIBUS to Create Custom Analytical Reports from Multiple Tables
Presenter: Michael Chamberlin, Information Systems Administrator, Facilities Management Department, Johnson County, Kansas
In the world of facilities management, the data that we store, track and present is our life blood. The ability to display this data in a format that is easy to manipulate and read is critical. With a relational database the size of ARCHIBUS, getting reports from multiple related tables can be problematic. Fortunately, with a little knowledge of the database and MS Excel, the analytical data you need to justify your existence is a few clicks away.
Johnson County was using an old version of Crystal reports, coupled with the data transfer routine, and manually copying and pasting data from five tables to build the analytical spreadsheet needed for its strategic master plan. The method that will be presented enabled it to import all that data directly from ARCHIBUS into the spreadsheet where FM staff could apply calculations, use pivot tables and graphs and identify trends hitherto unforeseen. It also saves dozens of man-hours each year and provides a live look at the data with a simple click of the refresh button, allowing what-if scenarios.
Management
C24: Dashboard Definition Wizard
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Learn how to use the ARCHIBUS Dashboard Definition Wizard to easily create complex dashboard interfaces using the power of this Wizard-driven interface.
Technical - Administration Track
C25: Lease Cost Administration & Chargeback (NEW)
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Discover the synergies to be gained by implementing two of the newest ARCHIBUS applications: Portfolio Cost Chargeback & Invoicing, and Cost Administration. Learn how you can be totally in command of your costing and chargeback processes so that your budgets truly reflect your business’ operations and assign overhead to appropriate groups at all times.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
C26: Managing Upgrades & Installs
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
This session describes how the new V.19.1 Upgrade Wizard and Deployment Packager can minimize the issues associated with upgrading and installing ARCHIBUS. This session will also discuss the processes involved in managing schema changes and upgrades so that users are aware of what to think about when moving to the next release.
Technical - Administration TrackWednesday, May 5, 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 a.m.
C31: A Lifecycle Approach to Enterprise Asset Management
Presenter: Paul Wright, VISTAtsi
This session explains how to use ARCHIBUS as a platform for developing and implementing a lifecycle approach to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). It will identify and discuss critical issues in developing an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) strategy through specific topics that include information sustainability for decision support, identifying critical issues for validating business processes, and making best-value choices in tools and technologies
Management
C32: Zurich Insurance p.l.c.'s Italian Headquarters: A New Concept in Building and Managing Corporate Offices
Presenter: Monica Sobacchi, Real Estate and Facilities Management Department, Zurich Insurance p.l.c.
Zurich Insurance p.l.c. is an insurance-based financial services provider with a focus on commercial property-casualty insurance. Founded in 1872, Zurich is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, but has an extensive global network of offices serving key markets in North America and Europe, as well as other locations worldwide. Through its offices in more than 50 countries, approximately 60,000 Zurich employees serve clients in more than 170 countries.
Zurich Insurance recently opened its new Italian headquarters in Milan, Italy, which features advanced technology and operational procedures to optimize savings and to improve sharing of facility management information. This was done by implementing ARCHIBUS to support better real estate and facilities management strategic decision-making. This presentation describes how that and other measures have transformed Zurich's operational efficiency.
Management
C34: Application Update Wizard
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
This session describes the benefits of the Application Update Wizard, which preserves data by helping you backup data files, such as enterprise graphics files (.swf, .json,.emf), that reside on the application server; preserves personalized extensions and merges them with new ARCHIBUS releases; and preserves the ARCHIBUS configuration and authentication preferences unique to your site while merging them with new preferences and defaults supplied with newer ARCHIBUS versions.
Rather than migrating changes manually, the Application Update Wizard supports your backup, prototype-to-production, and update processes so they are consistent and repeatable once you set them up. Your standard preferences also migrate without hand-editing. Finally, your data and extensions are automatically combined into Web Archive (WAR) files that can be backed up and transferred easily between computers and offices. These WAR files then deploy on a single server or a cluster of servers using the standard procedures supported by your application server.
Technical
C35: Users & Security
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
Creating roles for groups of users allows you to efficiently determine what and how much access to information users have. As the world of technology becomes more security-oriented, software that incorporates roles-based access allows users to set up and maintain security with minimal maintenance. Roles also allow users to customize the look and use of software for the needs of particular groups. ARCHIBUS Web Central V.19.1 and future versions incorporate security based on a Spring framework. This session covers the set-up of user roles, and the configuration of ARCHIBUS security within the Spring framework.
Technical - Facilities & Real Property Track
C36: Wish List for Windows & Web
Presenter: ARCHIBUS, Inc.
With each new release, ARCHIBUS includes enhancements made at the request of our users. Attend this session to let us know what you’d like to see in future versions of the ARCHIBUS Windows and Web platforms.
Technical - Operations Track