Resources

  1. Overview
  2. News
    1. IFMA’s Corporate Real Estate Council announces the formation of a new workplace innovation group
    2. Planon Unveils The Next Generation Of Its Facility Management And Real Estate Software: Planon Accelerator™ 4.0
    3. Planon – the first company to unveil a new BIM standard for data exchange
    4. IFMA’s ‘Work on the Move, Driving Strategy and Change in Workplaces’ publication receives industry award
    5. Planon contributes to the IFMA’s latest publication
    6. Planon uses new smartphone apps in daily operations
    7. Revolutionize Facilities and Real Estate Management
    8. Planon Hosts Annual User Conference
    9. Novo Nordisk chooses Planon
    10. Planon expands North American operations
    11. Planon Unveils the Future of Real Estate and Facilities Management Software
    12. U.S. Bank Selects Planon’s Integrated Workplace Management System
    13. Planon Software Announces PlanonConnect to ENERGY STAR® Integration
    14. Planon Named a Leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for IWMS Software
    15. Planon expands presence in Central and Eastern European market
    16. Planon unveils breakthrough IWMS system
    17. Sodexo Remote Sites Teams Up with Planon to Boost Client Value
    18. Planon Forms Strategic Partnership with CA to Deliver End-to-End Sustainability Solutions Globally
    19. Planon Announces Latest Version of Real Estate and Facility Management Software Solution
    20. Planon Announces North American Higher Education Team, Planon Competitive Upgrade Program
    21. Planon appoints Marc Voss as Chief Operating Officer
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    23. Planon Software Goes Mobile at NFMT 2012 with Launch of IWMS Apps
    24. Planon Delivers Another Year of Strong Growth in 2011
    25. Planon Group Named “Leader” in the 2012 Magic Quadrant for IWMS Software
    26. Planon to showcase new products and IFMA Author Award at this year’s World Workplace 2012
    27. Planon launches mobile device apps
  3. Articles
  4. Events
  5. Product Literature
  6. White Papers
  7. Analysts
  8. Case Studies
  9. Webinars
    1. Managing RE & FM after the Financial Crisis
    2. Energy Benchmarking with IFMA
    3. Finance 101
    4. Capital Assets
    5. Optimizing Campuses
    6. ecoCompetitiveness
    7. Greening Buildings
    8. Lifecycle Management
    9. Alternative Workplace
    10. BB&T Sees ROI
    11. Kodak Space Management
    12. KPN Cuts Costs
    13. Maintenance Management
    14. Integration for Service Providers
    15. Bayer Real Estate
    16. Performance Monitoring
    17. FASB-13 Lease Accounting Changes
    18. Theriault FM & RE
    19. Real Estate Technology
    20. Healthcare 1 - LEAN principals
    21. Healthcare 2 - Commissioning
    22. Healthcare 3 - Benchmarking
    23. Work on the Move
    24. Technology for Facilities Managers
    25. Planon Products release 2013

Webinars

  • Facility Management and Real Estate

    Planon Products release 2013
    Learn how Planon is launching the next generation of facility management and real estate software with the Planon Products release 2013. The Planon Products release 2013 offers a significant number of functional enhancements and technological innovations across the Planon product portfolio. These innovations are not only driven by external market input, but also by feedback from the large Planon user community. Many new customer requirements have been implemented in this release and include small usability enhancements as well as large functional and technical innovations.

    Facilities Management and the Evolving Workplace
    Join several of the authors of the new IFMA book, Work on the Move, for a session that discusses the drivers of change and the role that facilities management plays in the future of work. The session will explain how to leverage the latest technologies to cut costs, improve efficiency, and better serve constituencies.

    The Top 10 Technology Trends Transforming Facilities & Real Estate Management
    What opportunities do the latest technology trends provide today’s Facilities & Real Estate Management leaders? Learn about ways organizations can leverage new technologies to cut costs, improve efficiency, and better serve constituencies.

    Facilities Leadership Webinar: Making Information-based Decisions
    IFMA’s 2011 Distinguished Author Book Award Winner Michel Theriault and Planon discuss how leading Facilities Management and Corporate Real Estate teams are using facilities management technology to create data-driven insights that are generating impressive results.

    Prepping for the Upcoming Lease Accounting Changes:
    The Truth Behind The Hype!
    Larry Barkley, Industry Veteran and Real Estate Advisor, Kelvin Smith, FASB-13 expert and Colby Tuttle, Senior Account Executive, Planon provide insights on how companies can develop, on their own, a tactical plan to prepare, analyze and measure the impacts of the pending changes to the lease accounting standard. 55:07

    Finance 101 for Real Estate and Facilities Executives
    In today’s economy, understanding and communicating the fiscal importance of real estate and facilities projects to executive management and the Office of Finance has never been as important. This 30-minute webinar covers key strategies to help you justify your investment and secure the resources you need to be successful. 47:50

    Cutting Costs on Space and Capital Assets
    This co-presented webinar with Real Estate and Facility Expert Larry Barkley examines how organizations can meet the challenges of a down economy by optimizing space, extending capital asset performance, reducing maintenance costs and providing decision support guidelines around capital allocation. 55:41

    Practical Solutions for Alternative Workplace Strategies
    This co-presented webinar with Real Estate and Facility Expert Larry Barkley offers practical solutions for cutting costs and increasing productivity with Alternative Workplace Strategies. 55:50

  • Analysts

    Aberdeen Group’s Real Estate and Facilities Lifecycle Management Strategy
    This co-sponsored webinar with Aberdeen Group explores Real Estate and Facilities Lifecycle Management strategy and execution and discusses how it can reduce average occupancy costs and improve real estate and facilities management efficiency. 27:15

  • Customer

    Healthcare: Successful Facility Management with Bayer
    Learn more from Michael Müller, General Manager of Bayer Real Estate about how Bayer is using technology to improve efficiencies and optimise Corporate Real Estate, Maintenance Management and workplace performance.

    Financial Services: BB&T’s Return on Investment in Year One
    Learn how BB&T bank realized a return on investment in one year using Planon solutions. 25:32

    Communications: Dutch provider KPN cuts cost with Planon
    Dutch Telecom provider KPN shows how they realized a drastic cut in costs by using the Planon solutions. 19:51

  • Industry

    Benchmarking 2.0 for Healthcare Facility Management Report
    The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will soon require hospitals to document their quality of care, operational performance, and fiscal efficiency. CMS will reward the top performing hospitals with money that would have gone to the bottom performing hospitals. Learn what every hospital Facilities Director must know to prepare for CMS review, and how to succeed in capturing these incentives for his/her organization.

    Are You Prepared for Health Facilities Commissioning?
    Second in a Series: Commissioning – The Double-Edged Sword is Becoming Code Requirement. Watch the webinar and get ahead of the curve and look inside at what’s coming down the road.

    Lean Management in Healthcare
    Leaders in healthcare facility management have discovered that lean principles can be used in the design, construction, and operation of healthcare facilities and the results are dramatic. Watch the webinar and learn more about Mercy Medical Center’s Lean journey.

    Higher Education: Optimizing Campus Real Estate for the Future
    Today’s Higher Education leaders face a number of challenges, daunting capital and operating budget pressure linked to the global recession, new environmental and sustainable requirements, and the aging of the buildings and facilities on their campus. Quality infrastructure is critical to attracting the best students, faculty and research funding. 50:17

    Service Provider: How Chain Integration empowers your business
    As a Service Provider, you are aware that you, your customers, and subcontractors face an increasing demand for chain integration of processes in demand, delivery and control. This is an area where you need full control in service delivery, execution, and performance of subcontractors. This webinar covered how integration unifies all stakeholders into one solution, which can improve efficiency, control, customer value and profitability. 31:40

    Service Provider: Performance Monitoring for Service Providers
    Chris Kenneally, EuroFM board-member and Planon discuss keys to successful performance monitoring. The session also covers the top challenges service providers face and the proven solutions that drive efficiency, customer satisfaction, competitive differentiation and revenue.

    Service Provider: Streamline service delivery for best performance
    As more organizations shift to outsourcing facilities services, the challenge is on for service providers to accelerate the performance of their business, increase end-user transactions and improve revenue. This webinar covers the necessary steps to ensure service consistency, strive for quality, while increasing your company’s marketability and customer satisfaction.

  • Sustainability

    ecoCompetitiveness: Sustainability in Buildings & the Boardroom
    This co-presented webinar features CA Technologies who explores the best practices and technologies you need to evolve your sustainability projects into a strategic competitive business program. 56:51

    Practical, Affordable Solutions to Green your Existing Buildings
    This co-presented webinar with Real Estate and Facility Expert Larry Barkley presents the triple win business case for implementing a corporate environmental sustainability strategy and offers practical tips to execute green workplace strategies. 52:48

  • “Planon not only enables us to improve and innovate our processes, but also delivers our clients full visibility and transparency on our services, offering them greater performance and reactivity and, ultimately, the best value for their money.”
    – Pascal Milland, Vice President Facilities Management Services, Sodexo

  • “The management reports that we can generate have given us a much better picture of space utilization. Improved visibility into our resource use enables us to plan better, manage work orders more efficiently and to make better use of our time.”
    – Maryanne Keller, Head of Facility Management, Bayer

  • “So, are we happy with Planon? Yes – they can be both proactive and reactive, and I like the fact that I get sensible replies to my questions. They know where I’m coming from; they’re not just a remote software house. And, of course, they’re a sizeable company with a good user base, so there’s backup available for their developments.”
    – Derek Southwell, Database Manager, Cambridge University

  • “Planon’s ability to listen, react and then adapt as our project progressed was second to none. We have now achieved all the objectives that we set at the beginning of the project. The ROI provided to clients is now undeniable, and can be quantified project by project.”
    – Christophe Carlier, Head of Processes Information System Project Management, Exprimm

  • “As a company we now work more efficiently and the fact we can monitor work so closely means no-one is left struggling, as we are able to rearrange and distribute workloads properly. As a result, our workforce is much happier.”
    – David Hambidge, Head of Estates, North Dorset Primary Care Trust

  • “We also appreciated the richness of the range of services offered by Planon.”
    – Pascal Benoit, Chief Procurement Officer and France Procurement, Real Estate & Infrastructure Director, EMEA

  • “Planon’s great strength is that they maintain a good relationship with their customers despite their growth. We still feel that we are a valued customer, and they listen to us.”
    – F. Sijstma, ICT Advisor and Project Leader, Ijsselmeer Hospital’s Foundation

  • “There was no need for extra programming with Planon. All the functionality we required was already in the solution.”
    – P. Verheye, Technical Service Manager, East-Limburg Hospital

  • “Using Planon led to considerable time and cost savings.”
    – F.J. Edelijn, Shell Technology Exploration & Production B.V.