Real Estate is both a major cost and a significant asset for most businesses and successful businesses are those that achieve the optimum return from their assets.

ActivePlan is a breakthrough technology that allows established asset management systems to be dynamically linked to CAD plans for floor/room layouts, equipment details and building services. Unlike CAD-based FM systems, this integration is at the database level in an interoperable manner so a change in any application immediately updates all other views.
By ensuring everything is held within the database, ActivePlan allows an owner to enjoy the functionality of a CAD-based FM application, but through an Internet browser.

Assets are “intelligent objects” and have both physical and logical relationships allowing, for example, a schedule of the all the furniture that sits in a room to be generated but also report on the desks occupied by admin staff, and then report on the people and resources needed to work on a specific project. This allows provides cost management techniques such as activity-based costing with a spatial perspective difficult to otherwise achieve. This means of associating logical relationships can be valuable in identifying equipment that may be in different areas, yet part of a system (without modelling the entire system) or to visualise a process e.g. water treatment.

ActivePlan improves the way costs are managed but more importantly, leverages the business benefits to be gained from using the built environment in the most effective manner. This allows a business to explore how certain layouts can improve productivity, experiment with various options, select those to be deployed and measure the relative performance of each to inform future decision-making.

ActivePlan’s advanced database technology allows the data to be analysed from a variety of perspectives and presented in ways that managers of the mainstream business can understand and relate to their measurement criteria.