2 Minute Drill – Environmental Health & Safety

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 by admin

The ARCHIBUS Environmental Health & Safety application manages the vital components of a company’s safety program, as well as provides a system for tracking workplace incidents when they do occur.

Ensuring a safe working environment that adheres to all government regulations is a priority for any organization, not only to avoid costly violation fines but more importantly, to protect a company’s most valuable assets — the lives and health of its employees.

With the ARCHIBUS Environmental Health & Safety you can:

Ensure Safety and Wellness

The safety and well-being of your staff depends on a comprehensive understanding of the risks in your environment. Track risks for campuses, buildings, and materials, and take steps to ensure the well-being of occupants.

Promote Sustainability

Reducing your ecological footprint means understanding the impact your organization has on the environment and tracking the key processes involved, from energy to waste.

Avoid Regulatory Penalties

Compliance requires accurate information, reporting, and the tools to correct problem areas. Integrate insight with solutions for achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.

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2 Minute Drill – ARCHIBUS Workplace

Posted on October 3, 2019April 13, 2020 by admin

ARCHIBUS WORKPLACE SERVICES

Archibus Workplace connects everyone to a web-based experience that adapts your workplace to support teams, projects, and daily needs. Enhance productivity, automate operations, and maximize the use of space.

Find Resources

Connect Staff to Their Needs

Search people, spaces, equipment, and more in one system with advanced filters. Browse by list or floorplan and drill into key details. Build a central inventory of all assets.

Book Meeting Spaces

Make Collaboration Easy

Connect staff to their meetings and workspaces with bookings by phone, tablet, kiosk, or QR code. Avoid scheduling conflicts, view photos and details to see if spaces meet your needs. Enable staff to track all reservations on a personal homepage.

Book Work Spaces

Free-Up Seats for Evolving Projects

Free underused seats by letting part-time staff book workspaces based on daily and weekly needs. Enable staff to browse different seat types based on which projects they are working on.

Request Services & Moves

Put People First

Empower staff to make and track service requests, from maintenance to personal moves. Include photos, descriptions, and location details to improve outcomes and ultimately, enhance the safety and well-being of everyone in the workplace.

Centralize Oversight

Prioritize Needs

Integrate with ARCHIBUS management solutions to centralize, prioritize, and track requests for space and services.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

About IMS Consulting
For more than a decade, IMS Consulting has delivered the full scope of ARCHIBUS-related services to both government and commercial clients. As a Virginia Certified Small Business, IMS Consulting provides our clients with personalized attention by experienced ARCHIBUS certified consultants. Our experts work with our clients to thoroughly understand how they do business, identify their unique needs, and pinpoint opportunities to better manage their infrastructure, employ more efficient work processes, and make smarter capital budgeting decisions—both today and over the long term.

IMS Consulting specializes in the implementation of ARCHIBUS, the #1 real estate, infrastructure & facilities management solution in the world. ARCHIBUS is the global leader in streamlining how you manage your real estate, infrastructure, and facilities. Centralize your data, planning, and operations onto one seamless platform backed by 35 years of innovation and the world’s largest support network. Reduce costs, enhance sustainability, and create a better workplace by transforming how you connect with people, places, and processes.

2 Minute Drill – What’s New In ARCHIBUS 24.1

Posted on May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 by admin

As a Certified ARCHIBUS Business Partner we offer the implementation of ARCHIBUS version 24.1. With its focus on People, Place and Process ARCHIBUS V.24.1 contains the following enhancements:

Overview

Real Estate Portfolio Management

Space Planning & Management

Enterprise Asset Management

Building Operations

Environmental & Risk Management

Workplace Services

New Capabilities with the Outlook Plugin

Smart Client and Smart Client Extensions

ARCHIBUS Platform

Overview

Personalization

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

IMS Consulting specializes in the implementation of ARCHIBUS, the #1 real estate, infrastructure & facilities management solution in the world. ARCHIBUS is the global leader in streamlining how you manage your real estate, infrastructure and facilities. Centralize your data, planning and operations onto one seamless platform backed by 35 years of innovation and the world’s largest support network. Reduce costs, enhance sustainability, and create a better workplace by transforming how you connect with people, places, and processes.

2 Minute Drill – FASB Extension for Lease Accounting

Posted on January 8, 2019October 3, 2019 by admin

2 Minute Drill – FASB Extension for Lease Accounting

FASB compliance is easier then ever with the ARCHIBUS Extension for Lease Accounting.

On February 25, 2016 the Federal Accounting Standards Board released Topic 842. It defines the new standards which requires organizations that lease assets to recognize on the balance sheet the assets and liabilities for the rights and obligations created by those leases. Public companies must be compliant by January 1, 2019. All other companies must be compliant by January 1, 2020.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

IMS Consulting specializes in the implementation of ARCHIBUS, the #1 real estate, infrastructure & facilities management solution in the world. ARCHIBUS is the global leader in streamlining how you manage your real estate, infrastructure and facilities. Centralize your data, planning and operations onto one seamless platform backed by 35 years of innovation and the world’s largest support network. Reduce costs, enhance sustainability, and create a better workplace by transforming how you connect with people, places, and processes.

2 Minute Drill – Federal Real Property Profile

Posted on December 26, 2018December 30, 2018 by admin

2 Minute Drill – Federal Real Property Profile

IMS Consulting’s new Federal Real Property Profile ARCHIBUS Application has made it easier than ever to document, organize and submit your annual data to GSA.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

IMS Consulting specializes in the implementation of ARCHIBUS, the #1 real estate, infrastructure & facilities management solution in the world. ARCHIBUS is the global leader in streamlining how you manage your real estate, infrastructure and facilities. Centralize your data, planning and operations onto one seamless platform backed by 35 years of innovation and the world’s largest support network. Reduce costs, enhance sustainability, and create a better workplace by transforming how you connect with people, places, and processes.

2 Minutes Drill – ARCHIBUS Building Operations

Posted on February 21, 2018May 25, 2018 by admin

ARCHIBUS Building Operations

As ARCHIBUS certified business partners, IMS Consulting offers the implementation of the ARCHIBUS Building Operations Application.

On Demand Work

Schedule, dispatch, manage, and report maintenance tasks efficiently using self-service capabilities to reduce operational costs and increase customer satisfaction

Efficiently managing maintenance tasks is vital to keeping your organization’s infrastructure and facilities running smoothly. Stay on track with ARCHIBUS On Demand Work – a Web-based application that automates all the steps of the on demand maintenance process, from requests, to approvals, to scheduling and work order issuance, to completion and feedback. On Demand Work’s self-service functionality helps lower operating costs by enforcing process control and keeping information current, accessible, and actionable. This centralized repository enables improved forecasting and budgeting to optimize operational effectiveness. Raise customer satisfaction levels by empowering requestors and communicating with them at every step of the process with ARCHIBUS On Demand Work.

Preventive Maintenance

Streamline and automate the PM process to proactively maintain critical assets, minimizing downtime and repair expense.

Ensuring that critical assets are in optimal condition requires effective maintenance processes to efficiently allocate resources, enforce procedures/schedules, and manage performance. Webbased ARCHIBUS Preventive Maintenance (PM) enables users to proactively maintain assets, efficiently balance schedules, optimize resources, and track key metrics. Simplify and improve PM processes with ARCHIBUS Preventive Maintenance to minimize costly repairs, reduce operational downtime, extend asset service lifecycles, and improve planning.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

2 Minute Drill – ARCHIBUS Real Estate Portfolio Management

Posted on January 23, 2018January 23, 2018 by admin

ARCHIBUS Real Estate Portfolio Management

As certified ARCHIBUS Business Partners, we offer the implementation of the Real Estate Portfolio Management application.

Your facility areas, whether you own, lease, or sublease them, represent one of your organization’s most significant and expensive assets, and therefore one that it is important to track and analyze.

Portfolio Management

Improve the analysis and management of real estate assets to align the portfolio with the organizational mission. The application improves asset stewardship through comprehensive tracking and analysis of portfolio holdings. Provides multiple perspectives on portfolio performance to enable rapid, fact-based decisions.

Lease Administration

Centralize and automate lease administration processes to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and avoid penalties. It automates processes for lease tracking and management, as well as improves access of lease information to facilitate easy analysis and reporting.

Cost Administration

Centralize and streamline the processes of defining, allocating, and approving portfolio occupancy costs. The application complies with current changes to FASB 13, FAS 13 and FAS 13 GAAP requirements. It improves portfolio occupancy cost management and decision-making with advanced cost analysis/projection capabilities.

Advanced Portfolio Forecasting

Project costs and simplify portfolio planning and forecasting to support multifaceted strategic space planning requirements. Align your multiyear strategic portfolio plan with overall business plan objectives. Project costs for advanced portfolio forecasting of space requirements. Optimize the strategic space plan at all levels—from the portfolio, city, site/campus, to the building and room levels.

Strategic Financial Analysis

Provide a unified, correlated view of real estate, infrastructure and facilities assets and costs so they are optimally aligned to support an organization’s mission. Provide a common operating picture to view capital and operating expenses for the portfolio. Evaluate the mix of leased and owned properties relative to space vacancy/occupancy/availability for specific buildings, campus/site, cities, regions or for the entire portfolio.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

ARCHIBUS Space Management

Posted on January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 by admin

ARCHIBUS Space Management

The ARCHIBUS Space Management Application provides an integrated Web and mobile-based solution for viewing and managing an organization’s diverse types of space to ensure optimal space allocation.

With the ARCHIBUS Space Management application organization can finally answer that fundamental question, “What does my space look like?”

The application is made up of 4 distinct programs:

Strategic Space Planning

Simplify strategic space planning and forecasting to support multifaceted space planning requirements. Optimize space planning and forecasting at all levels from the portfolio, city, site/campus, to the building and room levels, as well as plan short, medium, and long-term “what-if” scenarios for organizations of all sizes.

Space Inventory & Performance

Evaluate performance and plan space usage to maximize efficiency and decrease total occupancy costs. The application delivers flexible, self-service reporting for effective space allocation and cost control. Improves evaluation of building performance and enables accurate benchmarking.

Personnel & Occupancy

Optimize space occupancy rates and improve planning capability to accommodate future expansion, consolidation, or re-balancing. The application provides immediate, accurate reporting of occupancy statistics for space usage and re-balancing purposes. Improve your forecasting accuracy for future needs based on current room availability and planned occupancy growth. Easily assign employees to temporary or permanent available space using highlighted drawings.

Space Chargeback

Streamline the chargeback process to increase space accountability and reduce occupancy costs. The application improves accuracy of departmental cost reporting for greater accountability on dedicated and common area space costs as well as assures more accurate planning based on current space costs and planned future growth projections that improve critical decisions on consolidations, moves, and acquisitions.

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ARCHIBUS Overview

Posted on November 1, 2017May 6, 2018 by admin

ARCHIBUS Overview

ARCHIBUS is the #1 provider of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management solutions in the world, with expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $2.7 billion (US). 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—reducing their infrastructure and facilities related costs by as much as 34%. Today, more than 8,000,000 ARCHIBUS users around the globe collectively save over $100 billion each year for their organizations. Available in 190 countries and more than 30 languages, ARCHIBUS is supported through a global network of over 1,700 professionals.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.

ARCHIBUS Enterprise Asset Management

Posted on October 18, 2017May 6, 2018 by admin

ARCHIBUS Enterprise Asset Management

Every facility manager knows that effective management of assets, such as furniture, equipment, and software, is essential to their organization’s mission. Yet managing the changeover of assets and staff while keeping an eye on costs can be overwhelming. ARCHIBUS provides transparency into an asset’s value, location, and disposition. With it, facility managers can increase organizational accountability, lower costs by re-purposing warehoused or underutilized assets, minimize risk by sizing their asset base for insurance and business continuity, and more easily provide accurate depreciation information to comply with accounting standards.

For more information contact IMS Consulting today or connect with us on LinkedIn.