Software Releases
Applied Data Systems, Inc. released the new Applied Data WORKS™ application. WORKS™ is an entirely web-based work order management and reporting system including support for multiple part storerooms for campus and multi-building site deployments. Management roll-up reports provide managers with real-time access to performance metrics and support dynamic drill-down to the underlying data. Please contact the sales team for more information.

Applied Data Systems, Inc. has released Version 1.2 of its Trial Drawings enhancement for the ARCHIBUS™ Furniture and Equipment Module. The enhancement permits the facility planners to work with only a select number of workstations at a time, instead of the entire floor. This permits more than one facility planner to work on separate projects on a floor at the same time. The program copies the assets out to a separate drawing while maintaining the link to the database. This will permit comparative counts of different alternatives. Please contact the sales team for more information.

Applied Data Systems also updated their Housekeeping Administrator software. The primary enhancements include:

1.      Easier to use interface

2.      Support for multiple alternative schedules

3.      Support for digital images of task steps

4.      The ability to specify the location of the data files.

Users under support contracts or part of the ADSI developer program will receive free upgrades.

New Contracts

Florida Hospital
Applied Data Systems, Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide an enterprise facilities and infrastructure management solution to Florida Hospital. Florida Hospital is a seven campus hospital system located in central Florida. The initial contract involves Space Management for more than 5 million square feet of hospital and research space; key management for more than 100,000 rooms; equipment tracking; and preventive and on demand maintenance management. The solution will support JCAHO and Medicare reimbursement reporting requirements.

Metavante Corporation
Metavante has contracted with Applied Data Systems, Inc. to expand their existing deployment to include support for multiple part stores; refrigerant usage tracking; and key management. Metavante is a banking and payment technologies company with 5,500 employees. Applied Data Systems' refrigerant tracking functionality helps Metavante meet government reporting requirements. When completed all key assignments for lockable buildings, rooms, desks, and binder bins at 46 U.S. facilities will be tracked. This deployment expands Metavante's existing solution that includes space management, work order management and integrations with Oracle's PeopleSoft™ and IBM's Lotus Notes™ applications.

Fluor Corporation
Fluor Corporation has contracted with Applied Data Systems to expand their existing facilities and infrastructure management solution. Fluor is a 40,000 person global provider of engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services. Their existing space management deployment which includes 13 global sites in 8 time zones will be expanded to handle all facilities work and move management service requests for 19 global sites. Integrations with other existing legacy telecom and IT asset management solutions will be established.

Case Studies
In this space we will be providing links to Case Studies of implementation work performed by ADSI. The case studies will be selected to highlight how a specific facility function can benefit from automation. They will also seek to show you how to integrate many of the facility management functions into a single integrated system. Where a single application is not capable of meeting the needs we will show you how to connect multiple applications into a shared information system.

See ARCHIBUS success stories:

Johnson County, KS
State of Washington DOT

Employment Opportunities
A career in facilities management automation is a very technically challenging and satisfying choice. The world of management revolves around information. Those who can understand the acquisition and analysis of the information in the decision making process are capable of substantially reducing the fixed costs of an organization. In facilities management
, this means saving real dollars in: rent, employee moves, and maintenance operations.

Applied Data Systems, Inc., for the past 22 years, has focused its efforts on the development and implementation of information systems for facility and asset management applications. We currently have openings in the Minneapolis office for:

Business Development Representatives

Project Managers/Implementers

Business Process Analysts

Java Programmers

Phone: 763-694-8900 Fax: 763-694-0799
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