Why Facility Gear?
Why Facility Gear?
The FM Gear™ software series aims to provide a package of commonly used methodologies that assess data and assist in the planning for corporate FM Real Estate operations, financial analysis, facility requirements, and corporate relocations. The software’s objectives are to outline facility options, provide a conceptual cost estimate, look for improvements in the operations, reduce real estate operating costs, and assist the Facility Manager in making recommendations of a preferred course of action based on financial and tactical criteria.
FM Gear™ is an innovative, Cloud-based, and simple application that allows the End User to customize their software purchase to what they need and when they need it. FM Gear™ is available as a subscription service for the short or long term.
The hosting or on-demand scenario offered by ICB1 is a highly cost-effective solution for small to medium businesses that face certain limitations. These include
- the inability to invest in enterprise software,
- the absence of necessary infrastructure hardware,
- a minimal or non-existent internal IT staff,
- IT staff that are occupied with other projects,
- the inability to bear the expense of testing and implementing new in-house software,
- the need to avoid investing in a server platform, and
- the preference to test and purchase only what is needed.
The Key Benefit of the FM Gear™ Software as a Service (SaaS)
FM Gear™ is offered as a hosted service which comprises fully integrated, reliable FM Gear™ functionality delivered from a highly secure, hosted platform over the Internet as a subscription-based service.
This means we can offer the complete functionality of the FM Gear™ App suite, including financial analysis, move management and project databases, in a secure, hosted environment.
This model of service is ideally suited to small and medium organizations as it offers many benefits including:
High Security Hosting
The SaaS model requires high security of data and reliability of service. To ensure this for our SaaS clients, all our software hosting is done by high-security data centers in the US. The benefits include:
- Uptime guarantee of more than 99%.
- Service accessibility from anywhere in the world making it ideal for virtual employees and road warriors.
Innovative Technology
By incorporating the use of innovative mobile technologies in FM Gear™ ’s approach to client services, FM Gear™ will position itself as a best-in-class service provider for the Facility Management and Real Estate Manager. More clients are specifically looking to reduce costs and implementation time for business-critical functions in virtual environments.
FM Gear™ is also scalable, allowing clients to download mobile apps for specific application use, when they need it.
FM Gear™ ’s Facility Management and Real Estate Portfolio Tools:
- Quick Implementation
Avoid spending months or years trying to implement your enterprise software and avoid realizing that you do not have the right solution in place. The SaaS model allows for quicker deployment with less work disruption. This allows your team to focus on your core business activities.
- Accessibility
FM Gear™ is available to most smartphones and tablet OS, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle-Fire, and Windows.
The FM Gear™ is scalable, interactive and includes customizable templates for corporate FM processes.
FM modules include:
- FM Gear™ ’s Facility Financial Analysis Module
This module provides easy to use screens to run the financial analysis for your facilities: ROI, NPV, and Payback for your leases, and equipment purchases. This module’s flexibility allows you to run “what-if” scenarios for your business case and budget justification. Other templates include capital project budgets, operating budget development, bid comparisons, and cost-savings tracking.
