Knowledge Center - Benefits of Facility Automation

We have outlined several areas where your organization could expect to achieve cost benefits from facility automation.

Facility automation will lead to more efficient space utilization. Many organizations have used facility automation to improve space efficiencies. You can expect to achieve cost savings by the reduction of property inventory and associated leasehold or ownership costs.

Reduced churn rates will be achieved. Improved planning and lease management attributed to successful facility automation implementation will result in reduced churn. As a result, move costs can be greatly reduced with facility automation.

Facility automation will contribute to general increased efficiency in running your facilities. This will help you achieve resultant cost savings on an on-going basis.

Facility automation will provide your organization with improved in-house capabilities. Facility automation will result in increased capabilities for space planning, strategic planning and project implementation. This can lead to reductions in architecture & design costs. An added benefit is quicker turn-around time for planning requests.

Fast and accurate management reporting. Facility automation will give you the tools to report on all aspects of your facilities – quickly and accurately.

Streamline facilities processes. Your organization can expect to streamline existing processes for space management, move management, facility operations, asset management, lease management, strategic planning and management reporting.

Share information throughout your organization. Facilities information can be communicated and shared company-wide. Provide management with the tools to make effective real estate decisions and give end users the ability to review data and interact with the facilities group.

Become proactive. facility automation will give the facility group the tools needed to become more proactive and efficient. Easy availability of facilities data will lead to well informed, proactive decisions.

Life safety improvements. Facility automation data and floor plans are vital tools in tracking, monitoring and improvement of life safety systems.

Develop disaster recovery plans. The comprehensive information made available by facility automation can facilitate the development of recovery plans.

Avoid redundancy. The centralized database can integrate with several corporate data sources, eliminating the need to re-enter information. Data from Human Resources, Technology, Telecom, Security and other service group can be shared, leading to efficiencies throughout the organization
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