July 20, 2010
Today, Apple subsidiary FileMaker Inc. announced the release of FileMaker Go, which immediately brings the power and flexibility of FileMaker-built solutions to the Apple iPhone and iPad. As the leading provider of Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) developed on the FileMaker platform, Facility Wizard Software is uniquely positioned to deliver applications and user interfaces which take maximum advantage of these powerful and immensely popular mobile devices.
“The availability of our applications on the iPhone and iPad is a very exciting opportunity for us and especially our clients,” said Dave Johnson, Facility Wizard’s President and CEO. “In the next few weeks, our growing community of users in facilities maintenance, project management and commercial real estate are going to be very excited to see what they will be capable of doing while on the go.”
Mobile solutions are being designed using the new technology to extend the reach and convenience of all current Facility Wizard Software solutions. Here are just a few examples:
• Project managers entering project updates and meeting notes, requesting information from contractors or viewing the latest project financials posted from enterprise systems such as Oracle, Lawson or SAP.
• Workers and maintenance crews completing work orders, asset condition assessments and preventive maintenance tasks.
• Real estate directors viewing lease and site portfolio data, forecasted and actual costs, critical dates and documents in real time.
Existing FWS clients will be able to take advantage of these new mobile apps without disruption to their existing software systems and work processes. Users will be able to access their data via internal WiFi infrastructure or over the Internet using 3G wireless networks.
Stay tuned to Wizard Watch for specific FWS product announcements as they are unveiled. Learn more about FileMaker Go at www.filemaker.com.
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July 15, 2010
We will be exhibiting at the APPA 2010 Conference & Exposition in Boston’s Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center on July 14th and 15th. APPA is the premiere association for educational facilities professionals, dedicated to maintaining, protecting and promoting the quality of educational facilities. APPA represents more than 1,500 learning institutions serving over 4,700 individuals.
Please stop by our booth, #330, for a personal tour of the latest versions of Workorderama™, Projecto™, REportfolio™ and Dibs™.
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June 22, 2010
In REportfolio, the default starting date for the 12 Month $ Forecast Report is the current month.
If, however, your boss asks for a forecast report for Q1 and Q2 15 minutes before a meeting, don’t panic. You can easily choose a different starting month by using the Payments drop-down menus. Simply set the Month to January and the Year to 2010.
Then click the Excel Export button to save the report to a spreadsheet for fast editing and formatting. Your boss will be impressed!
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May 18, 2010
I recently returned from working with a new customer – a large hospital and healthcare campus in Southern California – helping them transition from their 30-year old asset maintenance & work order database to a brand-spanking new installation of our Workorderama CMMS software. They are a sophisticated user, generating thousands of corrective and preventive maintenance work orders each month in a high-energy ‘get stuff done’ workplace.
They are rolling out all of our integrated software solutions to their facilities, engineering, and real estate workgroups. And they are excited to take advantage of our array of extended features, such as easy online work requesting, Active Directory integration for the enterprise, mobile handheld operations for the workers in the field, asset barcoding and parts inventory management, just to name a few.
But after all of the presentations to managers, negotiations with CIOs, meetings and coordination with IT, and with all of the latest and greatest technologies, bells and whistles now at their fingertips, the most satisfying and rewarding moment of all was seeing the faces of the users in Facilities Engineering as they entered their first work order into our software.
For years, they had become used to the notion that entering or closing out a work order takes 1-2 minutes each, jumping between several gray screens and tabs and scrolling through menus containing hundreds of archaic codes. Now, the same task takes a few seconds on a single screen.
Sure, our software brings our customers sharp gains in productivity, improved communication and visibility, the latest technology, and it maximizes their return on investment. But at the end of the day, it’s the joy on the faces of the end-users that makes it all worthwhile.
Dave Johnson, President & CEO
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April 19, 2010
One of the exciting new benefits of REportfolio v.6 is the ability to display multiple sites on a map. The location of each site in the found set is indicated with a red flag. Clicking on a flag shows summary information along with an image of the site.
The Map Sites feature is available in both the software and Online Portfolio interfaces.
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March 13, 2010
Congratulations to Dave Lenart of Columbus Regional Hospital for being named the 2010 Facility Executive of the Year by Today’s Facility Manager magazine. Dave and his team rely on Projecto™ to manage their capital projects.
Click on the cover image to read the story of Dave’s innovative response to a flood of historic magnitude that forced them to close their doors for the first time in 90 years.
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December 21, 2009
Workorderama-PW™ is the newest addition to our award-winning family of asset and work order management systems. It is specifically designed for the unique needs of Public Works departments with special features to manage electric, water, wastewater, forestry and sign assets.
Workorderama-PW lets you use your digital asset data without learning how to use GIS software. A simple map interface lets you pick work areas or individual network assets and add them directly to work orders. Or, you can use the map window to see completed work. Switch between easy-to-read street maps or aerial photos provided by Microsoft® Bing™ Maps. That means there’s no need for a real time connection to your GIS system.
For more information, click here.
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December 17, 2009
Facility Wizard Software Named One of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies for Second Consecutive Year
Facility Wizard Software, a leading provider of software and Web-based solutions for facility management, construction and real estate professionals, announced that it has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the country’s fastest growing private companies.
The list, compiled by Inc. magazine, ranked companies based on their percentage of revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. Qualifying companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – with at least $2 million in revenues.
“It’s exciting to be ranked among the country’s most successful private companies,” said Dave Johnson, Facility Wizard President/CEO. “The recognition is great, but mostly it’s about the people that use our software. It validates our idea that you can deliver powerful solutions to enterprises and workgroups and still keep things simple.”
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