As such many of the world’s largest organizations depend on ARCHIBUS as a mission-essential extension to their ERP suite. The ARCHIBUS Connectors are an ERP integration tool that lets organizations leverage information that already exists in their “gold-standard” sources as well as leverage ARCHIBUS IWMS data in their SAP, Oracle, and other enterprise systems. By correlating data that exists in their organization, ARCHIBUS users can gain new insight as to how their real estate portfolio can better drive their business mission forward.
For example, the Connectors can re-use personnel data from HR systems for occupancy, hoteling, security, and moves. They can synchronize work processes with the most up-to-date account codes, or upload customer real estate billings and cross-charges from ARCHIBUS directly to the general ledger.
The Connectors also enhances organizational insight by integrating enterprise data sources into the ARCHIBUS intuitive business transformation platform. You can correlate energy bills against your buildings occupancy to map your carbon debt to your lines of business. You can upload RS Means data to compare your cost for renovations and service work against your industry norms. Or you can show the true profitability and cost of ownership of each of your retail stores on a GIS map that shows the local income demographics.
The Connectors can employ Web Services interfaces to leverage service-oriented enterprise architectures. The Connectors can also merge and translate data to and from a wide variety of other data sources – such as XML, text, Excel, LDAP and databases. The Connectors use configurable rule sets and meta-data mapping to provide its data transformation services. They can extract, load, and transfer in real-time, event-based, or batched processing.
Your ARCHIBUS business partner can deploy the connectors for you. Business Partners and end users with technical support contracts from ARCHIBUS can obtain a copy of the connectors directly from the ArchiBiz Web Site.