Software evaluates facility and infrastructure assets.

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ARCHIBUS/FM v14.2 includes Condition Assessment application, which provides objective, systematic, method for evaluating facilities and infrastructure assets. Users can plan corrective measures and improve overall facility condition index. Environmental Sustainability Assessment application helps organizations monitor their effect on environment and prioritize efforts that may lead to long-term cost savings.



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ARCHIBUS/FM Version 14.2 Now Available



Latest Release includes Access to Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment Applications

Boston, Massachusetts?December 1, 2003?ARCHIBUS, Inc.?developer of the world?s #1 facilities and infrastructure management solution?announces the latest release of its comprehensive suite of integrated products, ARCHIBUS/FM Version 14.2. With two new applications and many enhanced productivity features, Version 14.2 is designed to help users effectively communicate plans and prioritize actions involving their organizations? facilities and infrastructure assets.

Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment
Version 14.2 offers access to two new ARCHIBUS/FM applications?Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment. The Condition Assessment application provides an objective, systematic method for evaluating facilities and infrastructure assets. With this application, users can better plan corrective measures and improve their overall facility condition index (FCI), ultimately lowering the total cost of ownership for physical assets.

The new ARCHIBUS/FM Environmental Sustainability Assessment application helps organizations carefully monitor their effect on the environment. The application lets users easily prioritize efforts that may lead to long-term cost savings while promoting a healthier environment and higher quality of life.

?As concerns about occupant safety and environmental responsibility take center stage, we are pleased to offer tools that make it easier for organizations to survey conditions and, more importantly, prioritize actions that will have a direct impact on life safety and an organization?s mission,? says Steve Segarra, Chief Technical Officer at ARCHIBUS, Inc. ?Our new applications take full advantage of PDAs and wireless networks, so users can collect data right at the source. A scoreboard format makes it easy to monitor asset status and performance at a glance. ARCHIBUS/FM takes business intelligence a leap forward by driving your high-level plans right through your whole organization.?

As integrated parts of the comprehensive ARCHIBUS/FM solution, the Condition Assessment and Environmental Sustainability Assessment applications leverage information about space, equipment, and systems that may already be maintained in ARCHIBUS/FM.

Enhanced Functionality
ARCHIBUS/FM Version 14.2 also adds to the core functionality of Version 14.1, released in May 2003, which is fully compatible with AutoCAD? 2004. The new Unlimited-Tier Hierarchy feature lets organizations establish any number of flexible data hierarchy levels and easily model complex relationships among buildings, systems, and subsystems or equipment, components, and sub-components. In addition, the Enhanced Dynamic View Analysis feature uses the hierarchies, standards, and categories established in ARCHIBUS/FM to provide instant top-level analyses, summaries, percentages, and cross tabulations by relevant categories.

An embedded XML output option allows greater organizational access to ARCHIBUS/FM reports via Internet Explorer. Users may further track and report their facilities and infrastructure data by adding ?dashboard-style? analysis interfaces that present high-level summaries of operational data while still permitting instant drill-downs to source detail.

Availability
ARCHIBUS/FM Version 14.2 (English) is now available to both new and existing users. Current users who participate in the ARCHIBUS Annual Software Subscription program receive the enhancements upon request, with no additional charge. End-users with previous versions of ARCHIBUS/FM can upgrade for a fee. The upgrade includes documentation in both hard and electronic copies. Version 14.2 is initially available in English only; localized versions of the new software will be rolled out in subsequent months.

About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of facilities and infrastructure management solutions and services. 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. More than 1,000,000 ARCHIBUS/FM enterprise and Web users manage over 1.4 million buildings exceeding 16 billion square feet. Available in over 100 countries and more than a dozen languages, ARCHIBUS/FM is supported through a global network of 1,600+ ARCHIBUS/FM-trained specialists. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided facilities management techniques since 1982. For more information, call 617-227-2508, or visit www.archibus.com.

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