October 11, 2006—Autodesk, Inc. has announced the launch of the Autodesk FMDesktop Product Suite, a powerful, easy-to-use software solution for facilities management.
Developed by and for experienced facility managers, the Autodesk FMDesktop 7.0 suite of products, including Facility Manager, Facility Link, Facility Web and Facility Request, helps deliver the power of digital facility management through intuitive and easy-to-use features, says the company.
The scalable computer-aided facility management (CAFM) suite of products was built on Autodesk’s DWF platform, and, by incorporating the latest DWF viewing technologies, provides facilities managers with a simple, accurate method to create, manage and share building operating data throughout the enterprise, Autodesk says.
This is the first full version of FMDesktop launched by Autodesk, which acquired the application in January 2006 as part of the acquisition of Applied Spatial Technologies.
Many facility operations today are still being managed through paper-based processes that include drawings and spreadsheets. Autodesk FMDesktop gives facility managers the ability to track their building operations with easy-to-use digital analysis and manipulation tools – so that tasks that once took hours of manual counting and drawing will now take only minutes with a few clicks of the mouse.
By integrating drawing, asset and facility management information in a single application, Autodesk FMDesktop gives users more flexibility than stand-alone floor plans, databases or spreadsheets. Facility managers can now retrieve and edit selected data, such as floor plans, operations and maintenance requests, from any one of multiple drawings. They can also query the data and use it to display graphical or data-based reports to identify asset relationships and dynamically initiate work orders.
Autodesk, Inc. is the world’s leading 2D and 3D software company for the manufacturing, building, infrastructure, wireless data services and media and entertainment fields. For more information, see the Web site as well as the ad on FMLink.
