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2008 International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference, Washington, D.C., April 13-16, to Feature New Real Estate, Infrastructure and Facilities Software that Saves Millions Presenters Include Chesapeake Energy, IBM, Turner Broadcasting, NASA, State of Missouri, and Top GIS Developer ESRI, Showcasing Innovative Implementations That Save Time and Money | ||||||||||||||
Feb. 20, 2008, Boston, MA — ARCHIBUS Inc., the #1 developer worldwide of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, will be holding its annual International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference from April 13th through April 16th at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel in Washington, D.C. This year’s featured keynote speaker is Jack Dangermond, founder and CEO of ESRI, Inc., the leading international developer of Geographic Information System (GIS) software. His keynote address who will explain the benefits of integrating GIS with facilities and real estate information for expanded visualization and analytic capabilities that provide better decision support. The Conference, attended by real estate, infrastructure and facilities managers from around the globe, highlights the growing management efficiencies and return-on-investment that users are realizing with their ARCHIBUS implementations. [Conference program and registration information available at: http://www.archibus.com/usersconf] Achieving Monumental Results through Technology, Collaboration This year’s theme, “Achieving Monumental Results,” features presentations that reflect ARCHIBUS users’ substantial and widespread improvements in time and money saved from employing the ARCHIBUS solution in virtually every area of real estate and facilities management at their organizations. The four days of best practices panels, workshops, and presentations will examine the most creative implementations of the ARCHIBUS solution platform, the latest application and technology advances, future product direction, and also provide free basic training sessions. International Who’s Who Explains What’s What in Best Practices Dozens of featured speakers will describe their success with deploying ARCHIBUS in presentations that explain how: • Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di Sienna, the world’s oldest bank, invests in the newest technology for master planning and complex construction for greener results — in every sense • ESRI and ARCHIBUS are merging geospatial information with facilities data for better building management and site location, marketing decision support, and other uses • Chesapeake Energy uses PDA-based ARCHIBUS implementations to link its geographically dispersed U.S. operations • IBM Europe is using one single ARCHIBUS system to support 25 different countries using VMware • Turner Broadcasting has invested in cutting-edge technology to strategically align their real estate needs to the overall corporate objective • The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implements Web-based ARCHIBUS to track its assets nationwide • ENI, the international energy giant, created a highly integrated ARCHIBUS implementation to service its 21,000,000+ square feet of space and manage 2,000 service providers • The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s energy and space management strategies are powered by Web-based ARCHIBUS • NASA is migrating ARCHIBUS data into a unique First Responder application • State of Missouri saves millions annually in energy costs while streamlining purchase and work order management and more with ARCHIBUS • And many more About ARCHIBUS, Inc. ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions and services with expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7 Billion (USD). With ARCHIBUS, organizations of all sizes and their outsourcing partners 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 and profitability. More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS users collectively manage over 5,000,000 properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 130 countries and in over two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software technologies since 1982 - when it developed the world’s first integrated CAFM (computer-aided facilities management) system. For more information, visit www.archibus.com. # # #
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