
Assessment - Are you in control of your real estate?
It is increasingly important to have a solid real estate management strategy. Real estate managers must stay within budget and report accurate numbers for crucial and expensive decisions. So transparency in your portfolio is crucial to ensure that you are in control. Answer these six simple questions to find out whether you are truly in control of your real estate.
Read more
Adopting BIM for Facility Management
Facility managers are advised to approach BIM adoption as an information management exercise. Start small whenever possible and prioritize: think about the biggest problem to address first or the most appealing opportunity to materialize.
Read more
Point Solutions or Integrated Solution: Important Differences
What are the real differences between a specialized point solution and more integrated software handling all aspects of real estate and facility management? More importantly, what differentiators are relevant to your specific choice?
Read more
Siemens Real Estate deploys Planon real estate management software worldwide
Siemens AG, decided to globally deploy Planon’s Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), that supports efficient management throughout the lifecycle.
Read more
Eindhoven University
Edwin Spanjaards, Manager Staff Services of the Real Estate department: “Substantial utilization improvements and more cross-faculty use of meeting rooms, workspaces and study places.”
Explore now
Real estate management: ERP versus IWMS
Make informed decisions with our e-book about ERP and IWMS for real estate management.
Read more
How can you benefit from BIM as a Facility Manager?
Both a BIM and IWMS systems use data for multiple processes throughout a building’s lifecycle. Facility and property managers are becoming increasingly interested in the benefits to maintenance and operations that integrating the two systems can bring.
Read more
Gasunie Transport Services
Jaques Letterboer, Project leader: "Planon takes organization from 90 different FM systems to just one.”
Explore now
Veritas
Bart Vandenabeele, Facility Manager: “Thanks to Planon Internal satisfaction has increased dramatically since implementation.”
Explore now
Mauritshuis museum optimizes service and maintenance management processes with Planon
The museum Mauritshuis is now optimizing its service and maintenance management processes with Planon’s software.
Read more
Building a credible business case
Before selecting and implementing an IWMS, it’s recommended to build a business case including internal and external costs and monetary and non-monetary benefits from at least a three year perspective.
Read more
No Benchmarking without the right data
An increasing number of organizations are looking for insights into their real estate portfolios. However, insight into property is not enough; without some context, it is impossible to identify real estate improvement potential, implement the focused actions, and evaluate the results.
Read more
The Quantified Building
This article from the Facility Management Journal tackles the question of what is actually happening in Internet of Things-related technology and how can you plan for its adoption? The “Quantified Building” is one result of IoT.
Read more
Demonstrating The Value in FM
One of the things facilities professionals typically struggle with is the feeling they don’t have a great impact on the overall bottom line of a company, when in fact, they have one of the most impactful jobs in the company. From the connection to human resources, security, safety, and IT, the facility management department is an important value-adding part of any organization.
Read more
Amsterdam ArenA and Planon form partnership to stimulate facilities innovation
Amsterdam ArenA, the largest stadium in the Netherlands, has partnered with Planon to fulfill the ArenA’s facility management and sustainability ambitions.
Read more