Facilities Management Best Practices Webinar Series

The Webinar Series is all set to provide you with invaluable information on Facility & Infrastructure Management trends and best practices. You’ll also understand the savings in time and money that you and your company can realize through a world-class Integrated Facilities Management system.

No matter whether you’re in a public or private sector organization, this Webinar Series provides practical answers to the broad range of issues facing facilities and real estate professionals today.

Facilities Management Webinar series is scheduled on 21st, October,2009 at 2.00 PM Eastern Daylight Time ( EDT).

Register now in the below link. Should I say we have limited number of seats available and it’s absolutely FREE. 

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/883156770

So mark your calendars!!

Warm Regards,

Team FacilitiesDesk

CMMS Global a general body whose interest is to offer insight about CMMS solution to people who seek relevant information and are interested in deploying a suitable system in order to manage their facilities and assets.

They have initiated a "Blog" called "cmmsadvice.com" where industry experts pour in their knowledge on various facilities management, maintenance management and CMMS related as posts...

I am glad to introduce you all to this portal...to have insights on the Facilities Management related information.

Happy Reading,

Team FacilitiesDesk.

I am happy to share with you the two new initiatives to offer all Facilities Management Professionals web platforms to share their knowledge on Online Forums:

One is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cmmsdesk

The other is: Facilities Management Knowledge Forum on LinkedIn

Looking forward to your active participation.

Happy Facilities Management,

Nandini

Team - FacilitiesDesk

We are happy to share with you the case study and testimonial of WWF Malaysia.

PDF format: http://www.manageengine.com/products/facilities-desk/casestudy_wwf.pdf

WWF - Malaysia automates support operations to achieve improved performance in tracking assets dynamically, managing asset maintenance with FacilitiesDesk.

"FacilitiesDesk is easy-to-use, completely web-based and integrated facilities management software. It has simplified traditional way of tracking assets and helped us save plenty of time, energy and papers."

- Seng Yip Leong, Senior Executive Facilities - Support Operations Department,
WWF, Malaysia.

 

Nandini

Dear Users,

In our release FacilitiesDesk 5.7 Release you came across the PDA integration feature in brief.

• PDA integration: Integration of FacilitiesDesk with Mobile client or handheld devices like iPhone or Blackberry

• Integration with LDAP - another domain service like Active Directory

• E-Mail Parsing

• Purchase Order Module enhancements

• Preventive Maintenance and Work Order Management are now in two different tabs to enhance usability experience

• Two knew skin tones offered for the product select the desired

And many more functionalities, enhancements and bug fixes with this Release (View release notes)

Existing Users (from Build numbers: 5200-5500) can apply the ServicePack 5700 from the following link:

http://www.manageengine.com/products/facilities-desk/49448464/AdventNet_ManageEngine_FacilitiesDesk_5_2_0_SP-4_0_0.ppm

New users can directly download the exe file of the product from the following link:

http://www.manageengine.com/products/facilities-desk/download.html?features

What does top management expect from Facility Managers during recession?

If this recession goes on like this the senior management will want facility managers to cut costs and add value simultaneously.

The trick to doing that is to focus on corporate outcomes, not on faciltiy operations outcomes. Facility Managers have to have business acumen, they have to understand the financials, and have to know how to manage relationships internally.

Some examples on: How add value while cutting costs?

• Facility Managers have to optimize to the fullest when it comes to space. Getting rid of unnecessary space is the fastest way to cut facility-operational costs. But cutting down too much space could leave the corporation ill-positioned when the economy rebounds. A lot of corporates are concerned that they’re going to cut too much. There has to be some flex in how you manage your property portfolio.

In past downturns, corporate facilities were managed to balance “value creation” strategies to improve operational efficiency with “value protection” measures to cut costs. Greater use of alternative work strategies such as hotelling or telecommuting helped to maintain this balance because they achieved both goals.

• Corporates continue to emphasize measures to reduce their environmental impact, but Facility Managers are more sensitive to costs than, say, a couple of years ago. The idea of paying a green premium is harder to sell; so is the cost to get LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard certified, though LEED remains the touchstone for green building initiatives. Instead, there’s a new focus on energy efficiency.

• In the 1991-92 “depression,” as the Urban Land Institute called that downturn, one telecom took the opportunity to buy property at 50 cents on the dollar. The same thing may happen in this recession period too, with corporates willing to own a higher percentage of their space than in the past, when the industry average was about 60 percent leased space.

Hope this info is useful....I look forward to give you more related information....

Happy Facilities Management,

Team FacilitiesDesk

We aim to offer the finest solutions with services to clients all over the globe. FacilitiesDesk believes that novel solutions, superior technologies and strong partners are the key elements for client satisfaction. That is why we are always on the watch to develop our partner network to new geographies.

Improve your profit

As a FacilitiesDesk partner, you will broaden your business solution and turn out to be more successful. You gain help in selling, developing, marketing and delivering FacilitiesDesk Software to the growing demand of the Computerized Maintenance Management System and Computer Aided Facilities Management Software market.

Benefits FacilitiesDesk Partner Program:

• Sturdy positioning of your value proposition and competency
• Expanded business opportunities
• Shared strategic sales and marketing initiatives
• Access to a broad and strong growing customer base
• Access to the expanding and high potential ManageEngine FacilitiesDesk community

Want to know more? Contact FacilitiesDesk

Happy Reselling!

Team FacilitiesDesk

Facility Manager: There are new set of staffs joining today! Gosh! I don’t have Floor plan’s CAD drawings to use FaciltiesDesk’s AutoCAD function…the listed information about vacant space will not give me enough visibility to decide….

FacilitiesDesk: Come on don’t worry….I can still help you with my “Grid Layout” Feature…its flexible functionality makes it feasible to work on Space optimization without the help of AutoCAD integration!!

Facilities Manager: Explain me how? How long will it take for me to learn “Grid Layout” feature and its functions

FacilitiesDesk: Let me explain…Its as simple as any other feature of mine. To quickly brief you about it:

• Intuitively create a layout for a desired floor in your building and presume cubes as rooms…
• Resize these cubes to fit perceived layout and arrive at your “Grid Layout”
• Each cube pertaining to a assumed room can be color coded to differentiate its room type
• Associate the apt assets and users/people and view them in your grid layout then and there…
• Vacant rooms can be visualized and hence making spot and quick decisions on relocations and new allocation can be made easier

Facilities Manager: Wow!!

There people…..info i promised to give on Grid Layout during my Release Post….hope this feature comes in handy for your space management….try now.

Happy Facilities Management!

Team FacilitiesDesk

ITIL the Information Technology Infrastructure Library did the good deed of conveying the message that, Facilities' seamless operation is important to manage efficient IT infrastructure (ITIL included Facilities Management as one of its criteria of discussion in ITIL V3.) to all IT folks that.

For in any organization the IT staffs or the System Administration team are the folks who can instantly realize the value of having a software in place with a zillion software available in the market to manage all aspects of IT like ServiceDesk, IT Operations, Application Management, etc,. Also they can help their counter parts in Facility Management teams to evaluate the right software and offer their suggestion.

Most of the SMBs will have the System folks handling the Facilties helpdesk too. Here the responsibility to very high to deploy a right software run their Facilities as efficiently as their IT operation.

With that thought i will leave you to contemplate the importance of having a CMMS in place.

Happy Facilities Management,
Team FacilitieDesk