The FM:Interact Hoteling capability is the first functionality released from our new Space Reservation module. A lot of our clients are either implementing or planning to implement Hoteling this year, and we are constantly hearing the same frequently asked questions about its features and functionalities. I want to help answer these questions and provide you... Read more »
FM:Systems is pleased to be attending IFMA’s World Workplace September 17-19 in New Orleans, LA. We are looking forward to catching up with customers, partners, and other facility management professionals. As a presenter, sponsor, exhibitor, and attendee of the largest annual gathering of facility professionals we are excited to be showing a new module of... Read more »
This blog post is focused on helping facilities team members understanding the differences between type and instance parameters in Revit and how they can be used effectively to help you track the most important data associated with your building assets. We’ll focus on the types of assets that facility managers work with every single day... Read more »
I am constantly hearing about the challenges Facility Managers deal with on a daily basis. Times are changing and manually updating spreadsheets are becoming more and more of a struggle for facility and real estate managers. The job gets done, but not in a timely and efficient manner. Excel spreadsheets are beginning to no longer... Read more »
FM:Systems was a proud sponsor of the 2014 Workplace Strategy Summit at the Wokefield Park Conference Centre in Berkshire, England June 8-10. I am pleased to say I was one of the 100 attendees who had the honor of hearing the leading experts in the fields of facility management and real estate speak about the... Read more »
This blog post is focused on helping facilities team members understand how to create a basic Revit floorplan with in a way that can help you start to move towards a BIM based approach to facilities rather than a traditional CAD based approach. For our discussion about drawing floor plans in a Revit model we... Read more »
Ever since FM:Interact 8.3 was released a few months ago, we have received countless excited inquiries about the dynamic mapping feature, which does not surprise me since I, too, have been excited about it—so excited about it, in fact, that I included it in my list of fab five features in FM:Interact 8.3 back in... Read more »
When word gets out that you’ve accomplished a successful deployment of a mobile FM solution, you may find yourself being asked for advice from others. The idea of providing mobile access to an FM solution is so logical, that just about everyone I encounter in the profession wants to do this (if they haven’t already), but some are still not quite ready to take the plunge.
FM:Systems is proud to be a platinum sponsor of the 2014 Workplace Strategy Summit at the Wokefield Park Conference Centre in Berkshire, England June 8-10. The summit, themed “Innovation on the Edge,” will feature leading academics and experts in the fields of design, facility management, real estate, organizational ecology, technology and management. Building on the... Read more »
I’ll be writing a multi-part blog series covering some best practices that we’ve discovered while working with customers who are adopting a building lifecycle approach to Building Information Modeling (BIM). In this series I’ll begin to dig a little more deeply into the details than I typically have and will speak more directly to tips,... Read more »