Originally Posted by
musico20002000
I'm currently using Tririga Facility Center 7.3. This is a CAFM software. Actualy we are only using the space module for property portfolio, occupancy, space management and clasification. The final product of this information is BOMA rentable areas, corporate units alocations, Sqft area for insurances, vacancy and usage reports. Althoug it has capabilities to locate assets at any room, we are not using it because management dont think is a indispensable benefit. Facility Center also provides with Space Planning and a Stacking module, but the planning department does not see the value on this. They say that the bottom line is, that they always need to go to the field to chek on actual and existing conditions. It is a lot of workstation data and head count and they do not have the resourses to go with it now or in the future. When I ask for the furuture, it gets enven worth. Other thing we are not using is the move management module. So..We are paying 20k+ dollars (Annual license fee) for something that is too powerfull for what we really "need" and I say "need" because that's the official position but, it is not mine. Now the corporation is implementing SAP/ERP (Enterprice Resourse Management). This ERP solution offers leas contract management, equipment and supplys managemnt, work orders, leas contract management, and space and property portfolio. The issue I have is that it doesn't integrate with CAD. The only way is through a FM software. I do not want to pay 20k anymore for my actual CAFM if I only going to use it for space alocations. But at the same time, the way it is structured, allows me to make changes in the CAD file, syncronize, and then I obtain a nice BOMA custome made report. That way I have CAD files that match the report product. Can I use Revit as my only space allocation tool? Would it be aeasier to pass my actual DWG files to Revit? Does Revit alows ODBC comunication with other DB aplications? What about FMDesktop? Can I use FM Desktop to feed the SAP/ERP DB? Should my SAP consultant provide a way to communicate SAP with FmDesktop and Revit or ADT?