CAFM & IT


INTUITIVE PARTNERSHIP PUTS DATA IN YOUR HANDS


Increasingly sophisticated FM applications have stimulated demand for intelligent data analysis, but this can create bottle necks as the experts drill down into the figures. Paul Durant, Strategic Project Manager at FSI FM, reports on a partnership that will provide integrated data analysis.


Today’s CAFM software can collect data on almost every measurable conceivable. But extracting it into formats that enable end users to make strategic business decisions has, until now, been a specialist skill, due to the scale of the data and the complex relationships within it. For example, a portfolio of buildings will be maintained in a single database table but will be referenced by many different functional areas, such as helpdesk tasks, assets, room bookings, quotes, projects etc., all of which


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will have database tables and relationships of their own.


“THE FIRST STEP WAS TO


REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT TO TRANSLATE NON-


INTUITIVE DATABASE TABLE AND FIELD NAMES.”


Extrapolating the relevant information from the complex relationships has, until now, required the expertise of a system administrator or an SQL expert.


And this is where the potential for bottlenecks arises, as the appetite for intelligent data reporting swells.


DATA SIMPLIFICATION New problems require new ways of


thinking, so we’ve teamed up with Intuitive BI to create an innovative solution to put all this data at the fingertips of end users. A best- of-breed specialist data analysis software provider, Intuitive have an established product that can be used as a framework for extracting, analysing and visualising data from


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