ARCHIBUS, Inc. Positioned in the Leader quadrant of Integrated Workplace Management Systems Report
Evaluation Based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision
Boston, Massachusetts, February 1, 2006 - ARCHIBUS, Inc. -developer of the #1 Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM) solution in the world with over 3,000,000 users-announced today that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner, Inc. in its report "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems, 2005" written by Michael A. Bell, research vice president, and released on December 20, 2005.
The Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) depicts Gartner, Inc.'s evaluation of how software vendors measure against criteria for the IWMS space. According to Gartner's analysis "The market for IWMSs is being driven by several user needs to include a focus on occupancy cost reduction; a need to report on key performance indicators across the workplace portfolio; a drive toward operations productivity via self-service functionality; and a need for greater workflow management across the life cycle of facility assets from acquisition (project management), lease and portfolio management, space management, and operations and maintenance management."
To be positioned in the Leaders Quadrant, Gartner's analysis concludes: "Leaders have strength in application and platform technology, demonstrate a high level of Quality in product reliability and service, have strong operation and organization capability and financial stability, have global reach, and offer a strong vision of customer needs reflected in a robust development road map."
"We are pleased to be recognized by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant for the IWMS industry," said Bruce Kenneth Forbes, President/CEO of ARCHIBUS, Inc. "We feel that this recognition reflects our twenty-plus years' drive to continuously improve the most forward-thinking and comprehensive solutions for facility managers and real estate executives available. To-date, ARCHIBUS/FM has been rapidly deployed at over 16,000 sites and has been integrated with over 1,000 corporate information and legacy systems. IT professionals are quickly adapting the robust business intelligence and analytic dashboards of ARCHIBUS/FM Web Central, which are being used in conjunction with offerings from companies such as Autodesk, ESRI, Johnson Controls, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Siemens. Once deployed, even the most casual of users can benefit from the combined capabilities of these blue chip solutions.
In this quest for excellence, our advantage has been the professionalism and collective expertise of our 3,000,000+ users and our global network of over 1,600 information technology, infrastructure, and facilities management professionals-all dedicated to delivering bodies of work that meet the highest standards and reflect global best practices and benchmarks."
About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 provider of infrastructure and facilities management solutions in the world, with expenditures for ARCHIBUS/FM®-related products and services exceeding $1.5 Billion (US). With ARCHIBUS/FM, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset life-cycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability. Client organizations are reducing their infrastructure and facilities-related costs by as much as 34%. ARCHIBUS/FM is available in over 130 countries and more than seventeen languages.
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. created the first commercially available integrated computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) system in 1982. Since then, ARCHIBUS, Inc. went on to create the world's first computer-integrated facilities management (CIFM(TM)) Enterprise and the world's first Total Infrastructure and Facilities Management (TIFM(TM)) Solution. Today, ARCHIBUS/FM solutions are considered to be best-of-class, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) offerings that can be rapidly deployed in less than 90 days with a return-on-investment, typically, in less than 6 months.
For more information about ARCHIBUS/FM, call 617-227-2508, e-mail info@archibus.com, or visit www.archibus.com.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Contact:
Cynthia Zawadski
ARCHIBUS, Inc.
18 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 227-2508
