March 11, 2009—VFA, Inc., a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, has released version 9.0 of its flagship software product, VFA.facility for April distribution in the US market. The latest release includes business intelligence capabilities enabled by embedded tools from IBM Cognos, including new reports and dashboards that allow users to view key performance indicators about their capital assets and easily access additional detail, says the company.
VFA.facility provides a central source of facilities information along with sophisticated tools for capital planning and budgeting. The latest release builds on these capabilities to provide customizable reports and dashboards to help executives gain business insight from facilities data, enable better prioritization of requirements, and support organizations that manage facility portfolios across multiple geographies, VFA notes.
New features include:
- A report center that lets users view reports in multiple formats, organize them in public and shared folders, schedule them to run at specific times, and automatically email reports to recipients they specify.
- Homepage dashboards that provide a graphical, interactive view of key performance indicators and the overall state of the portfolio. Users may create their own dashboards using tables, graphs, dials and more, and easily share them with others.
- Enhanced budgeting through an expanded set of fields within VFA.facility as criteria for ranking capital needs, including data fields in regions, campuses, assets, systems, requirements and prime actions.
VFA, Inc. combines facility assessment services , Web-based software and business consulting services to enable customers to manage every stage of the capital asset lifecycle. For more on the company, see its Web site.
