What's New in ARCHIBUS V.21.3

New Features at a Glance

These are the key advances in this release for each of the practice areas that are driving organizational change in today's business.

Mobile. With an explosion of new devices in use in the workplace, mobile is essential to every organization's productivity and future strategy. And mobile devices, capabilities, and operating systems advance markedly every six months. For this reason, ARCHIBUS continues to aggressively improve the suite of mobile apps, with significant additions throughout all applications as well as the ARCHIBUS Mobile Framework in which they operate. For many new application features, ARCHIBUS has adopted a "mobile first" strategy to provide these features earliest at the point of activity.

Real Estate Portfolio Management. A new Lease Portfolio Console provides all search, oversight, details, and actions that a portfolio manager needs to handle both reactive issues and proactive planning from a single interface.

Capital Project Management. Any realistic portfolio plan ties directly to the capital cycle and the missions that the capital spend supports. This release sees powerful new integration of invoicing data to provide insight on actual project progress and spend as well as integrated capital project consoles that can summarize financial and schedule status at-a-glance.

Space Planning & Management. This release continues a strong development program with VPA support for Space Transactions and improved Space Transaction editing on mobile.

Asset Management. Mobile devices are triggering a renaissance in asset management as field intelligence makes it practical to track disposition of a wide range of assets and equipment. Towards that end, ARCHIBUS has taken a "mobile first" approach to new asset management features, adding barcoding, floor plan redlining, photo redlining, swipe navigation, and UI improvements to its already strong Asset & Equipment Survey App.

Building Operations. This release deepens the building operations suite with a powerful set of features for supervising the end-to-end maintenance process -- entirely from your mobile device. This release also adds work team support and self-assignment features to both mobile and desktop environments for sites that assign work to teams or shops rather than to individual craftspersons.

Workplace Services. A powerful driver to employee productivity is workplace services, and the services applications in ARCHIBUS have made significant leaps in this release. The mobile Workplace Services Portal App received a facelift and new features, the Reservations Plug-in for Outlook sports a number of improvements, and the Web Central Reservations application has significant new features -- including multiple simultaneous conference room reservations to schedule Web events and video conferences at multiple sites.

Enterprise Integration. This release integrates the ARCHIBUS Connectors into the standard Web Central schema and product. Many of the world’s largest organizations depend on ARCHIBUS as a critical extension to their ERP suite. The ARCHIBUS Connectors allow these organizations to reuse information that already exists in their “gold-standard” data sources as well as share ARCHIBUS data in their Microsoft, Oracle, Sage, SAP, UFIDA, and other enterprise systems. The ARCHIBUS Connectors enable rapid integration using industry-standard transfer formats, such as OSCRE, COBie, and buildingSmart IFCs.

Technological Advances. To keep delivering innovation, ARCHIBUS has upgraded many aspects of the underlying platform. This release adds a wide variety of new functionality to the ARCHIBUS Mobile Framework -- including drawing, redlining, barcoding, performance improvements, questionnaires, and document access. Web Central adds powerful new components for Web-based drawing and charting based on HTML5 -- components that can run on both desktop and mobile. This release also adds formal support for AutoCAD 2015, Revit 2015, Oracle 12c, JDK 1.7, Windows 8.1, iOS 7.0, and Internet Explorer 11.

Easier Upgrades. This release also contains a substantial improvement to the Database Upgrade Wizard, making upgrades to new versions of the ARCHIBUS database easier, even if your production database contains your own site's personalizations.