Video Testimonials

"The number one business advantage of using ARCHIBUS is the relational database that holds many important different pieces of data for us... and having the planners have access to all that information allows them to make decisions for future building processes much more easily."

"The integrated solution approach does support our approach much better. If you look at it from a technical point of view it is one integrated database and that is much more easy to handle than a lot of distributed databases."

"Over the past ten years ARCHIBUS has provided us with a means of tracking our space... the big benefit is knowing what we've got and having ARCHIBUS allows us to know what we've got."

"We use [ARCHIBUS] for everything from tracking our fleet management to usage of vaccines for the health department, items that the emergency management has... down to basic, simple inventory that we keep track of for our building materials."

"ARCHIBUS helped us get organized. It saved us time by having everything in one database: all of our employees are housed in there, all our asset management, and property purchases."

"Our growth is exponential... The savings [from ARCHIBUS] is in manpower cost reduction – we haven't had to hire additional staff we would have had to hire to maintain the number of properties and leases that we have."

"By identifying space vacancies using ARCHIBUS, we were able to achieve a restack that delivered six-figure savings in annual lease costs."

"Before the [ARCHIBUS] system, we didn't have the ability to find information quickly or track it. Now we have it in a central location and can access all our project information from the system. It also helped us with catching some errors in design earlier and saved us about $1,000,000 in rework."

"Pirelli chose ARCHIBUS because each module matched project requirements. One of the most important reasons Pirelli was chosen as a partner [by Italian governments, to manage agency facilities] was the promise to use and implement ARCHIBUS."

"In 24 months, Pirelli has acquired 250 public clients, each with one or more contracts. W e manage 3,000 buildings totaling 5,000,000 square meters [50,000,000 square feet] of space and provide over 6,000 specific services.. Thanks to the ARCHIBUS implementation, Pirelli is able to monitor project timing, document management, estimating, contract management and building operations management on a single platform."

"One of the key value customers achieve with ARCHIBUS is direct process improvement... A general asked [his staff] for a report listing all his space and where everyone was and where they sat. The report took several months and was 75% accurate. Then we came in and put in a system. The next time he asked for a report, he had it in a few hours and it was 95% accurate. It was quite valuable to the organization - and to him."

"At present, we are working on a public sector project [with Italian government] whose aim is to reduce real estate and facilities management costs by over �1.5 billion in three years. Space planning is a crucial capability to achieving those results and ARCHIBUS will be a perfect companion to ensure feasibility and success."

"This is my eighth conference. I find the networking is great -- lessons-learned from other companies are a great benefit for us to take back to our CEO. So is the free training. It has also given me the opportunity to view other modules, and to see how they work and the benefit of having them in our company."

"The University portfolio consists of over 500,000 square meters [approximately 5,000,000 square feet] of space in 380 buildings and in the next few years that floor space is expected to double ... The ARCHIBUS implementation has made it easier to manage our most strategic activities. It is making us more efficient and effective in improving services to students, researchers, and faculty."

"The benefit of ARCHIBUS for our organization has been to provide a service, a systematic approach - a science to the service for our customers. We're also bound in the healthcare business by a ton of regulation and accreditation standards; we have the documentation and infrastructure that ARCHIBUS provides for demonstration of performance."

"ARCHIBUS is used by upper management to ensure we're meeting our business objectives, including KPIs. To ensure we're meeting those and our regulatory compliance, upper management pulls reports based on ARCHIBUS. It will also help us address the future and customer issues such as condition assessment and environmental sustainability. These can be very big in the medical space."

"On 10,000 work orders, we'd only receive hours and comments on 5,000. Since our [ARCHIBUS] deployment, we're up to 90%. We finally see that 100% is a reasonable goal we can actually reach."

"If we didn't have ARCHIBUS, we'd still be in the Stone Age. All we had running [prior to the merger with Mellon, producing a company with approximately 19,000,000 square feet of space] was a third party system that gave us hard data we could export onto Excel, but we couldn't tie the space data back to other information such as drawings. With ARCHIBUS, we've been able to pull a lot of different information together."

"We had [poor] customer satisfaction because we were totally reactive. Now we can do preventive maintenance and respond to client requests faster... and can also chargeback to the different divisions of the company all costs related to space usage."

"I think [the new work order system] saved a lot of time... Now it's all automated. Guys come into the system and print out their own PMs for the week... that saved a whole person's time."

"We do know that our customers love the fact that they can go on the Web to submit work requests. Our guys like the fact that instead of fifty clicks they can do three or four clicks to get a work order into the system."

"[ARCHIBUS] really does save us some money and definitely time...because of ARCHIBUS, our facilities services group says that customer satisfaction has increased about 50%. They're able to follow-up quickly, they're able to find people quickly -- they're very happy with it."

"The greater efficiency has meant that the bank will be able to reduce facilities management staff by approximately 20%. After the initial €1 million investment in ARCHIBUS last year, we've saved about €500,000, with additional projected savings of €1.2 million over an estimated payback period of 18 months."

"One thing the First Responder module allowed us to do with ARCHIBUS was to get all the building and employee images into one database. Now the First Responder can see an occupancy plan, and see all the personnel on a particular floor."

"Our goal was to use space better and there is no competitor to ARCHIBUS in this kind of project."