High Value Integration Features Now Bundled in Out-of-Box ARCHIBUS Product

BOSTON, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — March 25, 2010 — ARCHIBUS Inc. ( www.archibus.com), the #1 developer worldwide of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, has now bundled its high-end ERP integration tool ─ the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 ─ as part of the core IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System) product offering.

Over 4 million users around the globe use the ARCHIBUS intuitive business transformation platform to share information instantly, eliminate friction in their work processes, and gain new insight on how their real estate, facility, and infrastructure portfolio can be optimized to align resources with the organizational mission. Many of the world’s largest organizations depend on ARCHIBUS as a critical extension to their ERP suite. The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 allow these organizations to reuse information that already exists in their “gold-standard” data sources as well as share ARCHIBUS IWMS data in their Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, SAP, UFIDA, and other enterprise systems. The ARCHIBUS Connectors can enable rapid integration using industry standard transfer formats, such as OSCRE and COBIE.

“The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 are the Rosetta Stone for IWMS, decoding the raw data from your organization and fusing it with the location-intelligence in ARCHIBUS analytics and dashboards,” says Bruce Forbes, President and CEO. “Strategic managers reduce risk by making certain that their decisions are evidence-based and data-driven. When combined with ARCHIBUS Dashboards and View 18.2, the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 enable intuitive business transformation, in only a few clicks.”

Many Uses in Integrating Enterprise Data

ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 also enhance organizational insight by integrating enterprise data sources into the ARCHIBUS intuitive business transformation platform. For example, ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can re-use personnel data from Human Resources systems for occupancy, hoteling, security, moves, and more. They can synchronize work processes with the most up-to-date account codes, or upload customer real estate billings and cross-charges from ARCHIBUS directly to the general ledger. Other use case examples might include:

• Expanding the power of Building Information Modeling (BIM) throughout an organization to enable Enterprise Information Modeling (EIM), which extends information about a property from its initial design, to commissioning, and throughout its entire life cycle
• Correlating energy bills with building occupancy to map carbon footprint by line of business or cost center
• Assessing the desirability of retail stores by overlaying sales and expenses on an ESRI^® GIS map showing socio-economic and other demographic information
• Uploading benchmark data such as RS Means^® to compare cost for renovations and service work against industry norms

Years of Proven Customer Deployments

“The ARCHIBUS Connector technology has been in use for years at some of the largest organizations in the world,” says Nick Stefanidakis, Director of Client Services. “Its reliability has been demonstrated within global-scale datasets and has proven to keep pace with the millions of record changes every month that large enterprises generate.”

Ninety-percent of the data needed for an effective IWMS already exists within an organization’s ERP systems, yet data access and data quality are two of the main obstacles for rapid deployments. The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can eliminate those roadblocks. As a case in point, a global financial institution loaded over 100 million square feet of space, employee, and financial data into ARCHIBUS in less than 9 months as part of a worldwide systems consolidation. While other tools on this project did not have the speed and flexibility to keep up with the volume, the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 easily managed the load. Moreover, the built-in ARCHIBUS Connector 18.2 rules sped data cleansing by validating the data against established standards; and further expedited the work with its ability to populate these standards from the data itself. The result was a comprehensive IWMS database that was both timely for strategic decisions and trustworthy for financial and regulatory compliance requirements.

ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can employ Web services interfaces to leverage service-oriented enterprise architectures and can also merge and translate data to and from a wide variety of other data sources – such as XML, Microsoft Excel^®, LDAP text, and databases. The ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 use configurable rule sets and meta-data mapping to provide data transformation services. Furthermore, they can extract, load, and transfer in real-time, event-based, or batched processing modes.

For a technical paper further illustrating how the ARCHIBUS Connectors 18.2 can be implemented as part of an IWMS deployment, please contact ARCHIBUS Client Services ( Email Contact).

About ARCHIBUS, Inc.

ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions and services with the total annual expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7 Billion (USD). Through effective innovation and business transformation, ARCHIBUS users save their organizations over $100 billion annually. With ARCHIBUS, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability.

ARCHIBUS is the #1 IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System) solution in the world. More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and Web users collectively manage over 5,000,000 properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 130 countries and in over two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure and facilities management technologies since 1982. For more information, visit http://www.archibus.com .