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Dear Readers,

We have released the FacilitiesDesk 5.0

Following are the new salient features of the CAFM software:

• Auto CAD integration
  
• Room booking
• Enhanced Requester Login
• Maintenance Templates
• MSSQL support

And FacilitiesDesk is now available in Chinese and French.

For more details on this new release pl view the following related links:

FD 5 can be downloaded from, http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/facilities-desk/download.html

Website: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/facilities-desk/index.html

Demo: http://demo.facilitiesdesk.com/

Will keep you all posted on the updates!!

We are working on upgrade pack which should be available shortly. Existing FD customers, please bear with us on the delay. Once the upgrade pack is available, on applying the same, existing customers will be able to access Professional edition.

Your feedback/inputs/comments/evaluation are most welcome!!

You can reach us in this forums or for more customized support mail us at support@facilitiesdesk.com

Thanks,
Nandini

Hi All,

As mentioned in one of my earlier posts…before bringing up the next big release of Facilities we have done the hotfixes of our FacilitiesDesk 4.

Yes, the HotFix for FacilitiesDesk (Build No.4001) over FacilitiesDesk 4 is released. This hotfix build can be applied over build number 4000 and it is a consolidation of all the hotfixes over FacilitiesDesk 4 so far.

Following are the Issues fixed in this Hot fix:

• In the Purchase Order feature the issues in E-mailing the Owner and the vendor are fixed.
• Also the approval cycle issue is fixed in the Purchase Order functionality.
• Yet another resolved issue in Purchase Order is that now the user is allowed to give email id , when Purchase Order is sent for approval.
• The Holidays list is now editable & you can also do deletion of made list of holidays.
• The issues in Merging & Splitting two maintenance request is fixed.
• A column is now added in CraftPerson to include WorkTrade. Now you can have Work Trade in List View and related details and some edit related issues were fixed too in the CraftPerson.

There were many more issues fixed which are relatively less critical but put together will improve the usability of the product. Try out this Build and as always, we eagerly await the feedback - bats first, and the bouquets next

Feel free to mail your suggestions, views, and opinions about the product here.

To download the exe of the release click here

Thanks and Regards
Nandini
FacilitiesDesk

Development of FacilitiesDesk for the facility management domain was an inspiration seeing simple yet sophisticated and affordable Softwares being used for IT and system administration.

There were three key hurdles spotted and the product was built around those:

• Prolonged desk research and on talking to prospects brought out the fact that there is a lot of Manual paper work going in for the facilities management teams in organizations of all sizes. This is due to inhibitions of the admin staffs to use the softwares unlike IT and system administrators

• All available CMMS though came up as a replacement of manual work were lacking in sophistication as that of a ServiceDesk and again the inhibition to softwares prevailed amongst the facilities management staffs

• The replacement for CMMS tools were sophisticated CAFM applications but the installation part was terrifying since it went beyond months. Also all CAFM softwares came with very high price

So when FacilitiesDesk was built care was taken to keep it simple, that even non-software savy facility management staffs will be able to use the system at ease, which eventually will negate the manual work that goes in. FacilitiesDesk is developed with all major modules of a Facilities and Maintenance Management like:

• Maintenance Management/Workorder Tracking
• Property Management
• Space Management
• Asset Management and Tracking
• Move Management
• Purchase Management
• Contract Management

So thats the making of ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk for you…

Relevant Links: FacilitiesDesk PR