by Brianna Crandall — November 24, 2014—CAFM Resources, developer of EvolveFM, recently announced the addition of a Move Management and Planning module to the company’s facilities management software suite. EvolveFM is a full-featured, easy-to-use, aggressively priced computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) software solution that provides FMs with an affordable tool to manage their building spaces, assets and people.
EvolveFM is fully browser-based and can be hosted either “in the cloud” or behind the corporate firewall, accommodating individual customer requirements. The EvolveFM Move Management and Planning module helps users seamlessly coordinate employee and asset moves, adds and changes (M/A/C) efficiently, with minimum disruption to the organization.
EvolveFM Move Management feature summary
With EvolveFM Move Management, moves are managed more effectively, ensuring workspaces and resources are ready for immediate employee productivity. The resulting employee location information is updated in floor plans automatically and can be shared instantaneously with other departments that rely on accurate employee data, like security, information technology (IT), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resources (HR) systems. With EvolveFM Move Management and Planning, users can:
- Provide executive decision-makers graphical, easy-to-understand views of spaces and move plans;
- Create a collaborative environment for executives, employees, FMs and key task groups to improve efficiency and minimize costs associated with M/A/C;
- Minimize the number of moves needed through more effective space planning;
- Create “what-if” floor plan scenarios to support move planning and disaster recovery;
- Leverage existing computer-aided design (CAD) data to associate floor plans with personnel, assets and spaces;
- Automatically generate move lists with corresponding data on personnel and business unit occupation;
- Distribute work orders to execute M/A/C plans using built-in operations management features. Automate one-person moves using intranet-based requests or via drag-and-drop actions from occupant lists;
- Create move projects that reflect multiple move options;
- Easily plan, manage and execute moves of all sizes while minimizing disruption to employees and the overall organization;
- Update M/A/C lists with changes for moves at any phase.
CAFM Resources creates and implements powerful, easy-to-use, affordable FM software applications that address the four primary functions of facilities management: Space Management, Asset Management, Move Management and Maintenance Management. The company integrates, supports and personalizes these solutions for facilities professionals. CAFM Resources was founded in 2007 by Randy Ledoux, formerly of Applied Spatial Technologies, the developers of FMDesktop. It has focused on developing the next evolution in FM software, starting with FMView, which provided the architecture for EvolveFM. EvolveFM takes the best elements of FMView and FMDesktop, Web enables the complete solution, and adds many new features and functions to create FM software that everyone can use.
See also “CAFM Resources adds operations and maintenance module to EvolveFM CAFM software” on FMLink.
