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ARCHIBUS to add geographic information systems to its facility and infrastructure mgmt products

March 7, 2008—ARCHIBUS, Inc., a leader developer of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, announced it has joined the ESRI Business Partner Program and will be using ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) software in its products.

The first product to grow out of this software development relationship is ARCHIBUS Geospatial Extensions for ESRI, which allows ARCHIBUS and ESRI users to access and integrate geospatial information with facilities data from each other’s databases. This "Intuitive Business Transformation (IBT) Environment," as the company call it, utilizes real estate, infrastructure, facilities, and geographic information for better analytics and decision support to improve workflows and business practices.

ARCHIBUS software development efforts in the GIS space address an expanding public and private sector need for integrated software that can blend and analyze interior with exterior building data, including a vast range of geographic information.

This ability gives users visualization and analytic capabilities for more cost-efficient real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management, improved site planning, and more insightful marketing and operations decision support, among other benefits, says ARCHIBUS.

ARCHIBUS Geospatial Extensions for ESRI uses a single interface and delivers ARCHIBUS data and graphics within a range of ESRI products, such as ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Desktop (including ArcScene), and ArcWeb Services. With these extension toolkits, users can perform ad hoc queries that simultaneously combine the spatial aspects of GIS with the logical relationships within ARCHIBUS data. This will allow users to unlock the power of both 2D and 3D geospatial visualization for improved analysis, reporting and decision making in areas such as facilities master planning, property management, maintenance operations, environmental compliance, risk assessment, business continuity planning, among many other use cases.

These combined solutions can be published to the Web for drill-down, thematic highlight and search capability for authorized users within the larger organization. Both interior and exterior data can be accessed simultaneously to visualize an organization’s assets and streamline enterprise workflow processes, enabling rapid business transformation.

For more information, see the ARCHIBUS Web site as well as the ad on FMLink.

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