February 15, 2008—ARCHIBUS, Inc., a major developer worldwide of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software, has announced that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has deployed asset management applications from ARCHIBUS to manage over 1 million square feet of space and associated assets and leases.
HUD relies on an ARCHIBUS-powered system called FIRMS (Facilities Integrated Resource Management System) to maintain defensible data on its space alterations projects, office equipment, and leased office space.
With the accurate reports generated from this system, HUD easily meets many of the GSA’s stringent reporting requirements, says ARCHIBUS.
FIRMS consists of several ARCHIBUS applications, including Space Management, Real Property & Lease Management, and Furniture & Equipment Management. The Web Overlay product is also used to extend FIRMS access to HUD field offices across the nation.
Before FIRMS, this kind of information was kept on a scattered collection of paper-based and simple electronic spreadsheets, which had to be manually assimilated into a single database of record.
HUD is also cost-effectively extending information to other areas of the organization via a protected intranet. Currently about 150 persons at more than 100 different sites have access to the system, where they can enter changes to their inventory and space, considerably reducing HUD’s collective administrative burden.
The agency has recently completed integrating its HR system with FIRMS and hopes to soon complete the implementation of two additional ARCHIBUS applications: Telecommunications & Cable Management and Building Operations Management. This is part of the agency’s long-range integration plan, of which FIRMS and ARCHIBUS are an essential part.
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