Posted 10th November 2012 By Rob Whalley

Benefits of Facilities Management (CAFM) Software

In the world of CAFM, there are many benefits software solutions can offer Facilities Management departments or Service Provide operations. Benefits of CAFM may include scalability, usability or deliverability depending on the specific requirements of the client.

Comprised below is a list of typical CAFM Benefits you could expect from many of CAFM solutions available on the market, including our own Tabs CMMS & CAFM.

• Increase Staff/Visitor Site Safety
• Manage multiple properties (either client or internal) with ease
• Capable of supporting "Hard" and "Soft" services
• Track assets and control asset costs (depreciation, maintenance etc)
• Reduce Asset Costs Through efficient Asset Management
• CAFM/CMMS systems can help improve equipment performance
• Reduce equipment downtime and prevent mechanical failure through Planned Preventative Maintenance
• Utilise space more efficiently
• Manage human resources and identify workloads easily
• Increase productivity through process automation
• Provides fast and accurate reporting
• Make informed decisions based on facts
• Analyse costs and control budgets
• Manage performance against SLA's and KPI's
• Streamline and optimise processes and service delivery
• Offers complete visibility over facilities or service operations
• Support environmentally friendly (paper free) processes
• Offers service cost savings
• Improves sustainability credentials
• Supports compliance against legislations
• Prevents risk of manual error through automated processes
• Provides professional and centralised back office management solution
• Offers data standardisation across the organisation
• Adaptable to changes within an organisation
• Provides the tool for continuous monitoring and improvement of hard and soft services
• Replaces disparate systems and prevents data duplication
• Web based interfaces provide global self-service tools and saves on human resources
• Mobile tools increase response times
• Enhance data accuracy and data capture through Mobile solutions
• Mobile system offer instance access to critical data
• CAFM systems are scalable to suit current and future needs
• Technology and functionality can help improve your service offering
• Improves your department or organisation profile
• Controlled system and user access
• CAFM can be delivered as a Local installation, SaaS or Hosted Solution
• Integration with other products
• Developed inline with market trends
• Centralise documentation
• Centrally store site locations, contacts and other essential site information
• Realistic return on investment
• hosted externally or deployed on local network
• delievered on a range of Mobile devices, included iOS, Android and Windows Mobile

CAFM Software Survey Statistics

In a recent survey* of conducted with over 450 Public, Private and Non-Profit Facilities Professionals from across the UK, it was found that..

• 81% agreed that CAFM had enabled them to save money
• 91% confirmed that CAFM made their facilities management service more efficient
• 79% suggested that cafm allowed them to better understand and identify staff workload
• 71% Commented that CAFM helped reduce the FM budget
• 90% identified that CAFM provide their organisation with better quality and useful data
• 61% said that CAFM improved sustainability
• 90% Thought That CAFM supported auditability
• 75% Believed that CAFM Systems are flexible to an organisations needs
• 76% Remarked that CAFM provided all the benefits they expected

* UK Annual CAFM Survey Results 2012, by FMA, SWG and iFM