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  • Space Planning and Management

      OVERVIEW

      Real Estate and Facility Management organizations must be able to understand the cost, amount, quality, environmental effectiveness and utilization of all of the spaces in their real estate portfolio. Manhattan Space Management is a comprehensive solution that provides for multi-tier consolidation of space and the rollup of space attributes by physical, regional and organizational dimensions. The rollup accommodates any number of space variables and standards.

      Space Planning and Forecasting
      Manhattan allows users to determine accurate supply-side space inventory in compliance with IFMA, BOMA and OSCRE standards. Space measurements are calculated and updated from the CAD interface allowing for utilization data to be made available for strategic decision making. Stacking and blocking plans allow for visualization of multi-floor or building space planning.

      Move Management (Moves/Adds/Changes - MAC)
      Manhattan’s robust workflow manages M/A/C processes across an interdepartmental facility management team. In the planning phases, an unlimited number of proposed floor plan scenarios can be created to support move planning and disaster recovery. Move lists are automatically generated.



      BENEFITS

      • Integrate HR, location, work process, building system and technology data
      • Achieve almost immediate ROI by understanding true portfolio occupancy
      • Identify areas of opportunity due to poor space utilization
      • Map space availability with forecasted future demand (by headcount, equipment or on a project basis)
      • Easily interface with AutoCAD drawings through the web without CAD residing on a system
      • Download building system and floor data through a BIM interface
      • Reduce "churn" rate due to more effective and proactive space planning

  • Moves/Adds/Changes (MAC)

      OVERVIEW

      Manhattan’s robust workflow engine manages MAC processes across teams including facility planning, IT, telecom, move management companies and customer service staff. Manhattan enables careful planning to manage churn-related costs and minimise disruptions and downtime.



      BENEFITS

      • Seamless planning, managing and executing small tactical moves, as well as strategic long term relocations
      • Flexible workplace strategies can be created to provide more agile planning to minimise the cost of churn
      • Employee churn costs can be lowered by reducing number of moves through more effective, proactive space planning

      Functionality

      • Create an unlimited number of proposed ‘what if’ scenarios for various floor plan designs
      • Facilitate project planning, design, tacking, and reporting
      • Automatically generate move lists
      • Create a Revit view as a DWG file and a 3D DWF file which can be used for visualisation purposes
      • Distribute work orders for automated move execution

  • SpaceWalker

      OVERVIEW

      Manhattan has created a powerful tool for space management tailored for tablet platforms. Using SpaceWalker, facility management professionals can gain extraordinary mobility that allows them to update space occupancy, utilisation, chargeback assignments, and physical details while inspecting or touring the various floors in a building.



      BENEFITS

      • Employs standard, well understood and easy-to-use touch screen conventions
      • Once in the floor plan, users can call up detailed information about individual spaces in the field with a simple tap on the screen and update as needed
      • Historical information can be made available in read only format and notes recorded or updated

      Functionality

      • Interface with CAD drawing
      • Select, view and update color-coded floor plans
      • Simple search-and-select mechanisms and drop-downs deployed to minimise input and provide quick results

  • Space Scheduling

      OVERVIEW

      In a recent global workplace study, it was determined that employees who are offered a choice of when and where to work are more innovative and have a higher performance than those who are not. The Space Scheduling module enables an organisation to offer that flexibility by efficiently managing the booking and organisation of meeting, conference and project rooms, flexible desking, global videoconferences and other spaces designed to be reserved.

      BENEFITS

      • More efficient and effective use of space and lower carbon footprint
      • Ability to reserve any asset, including expensive equipment and services
      • Reduce the cost of churn
      • Ability to maintain flexibility in the workplace while optimising the portfolio

      Functionality

      • Flexible space and desk reservations
      • Intelligent meeting room bookings
      • Reservations for videoconferencing
      • Digital signage
      • Integration with MS Outlook and Lotus Notes calendars

  • Financial Management

      OVERVIEW

      From inception, Manhattan was designed and built with financial management and accounting at its core. This unique Financial Management module helps organizations analyze and optimize their overall Total Cost of Occupancy for Real Estate & Facility Management. It provides a real estate-specific sub-ledger and other financial and accounting tools that allow organizations to evaluate their real estate spend while practicing sound accounting principles. Real estate and FM professionals now have visibility into their entire spend at a granular, real estate ledger level.

      The Financial Management module is the best connection to accounting, finance and other business units to provide detailed data on the daily operations and strategic performance of any real estate portfolio, property by property.



      BENEFITS

      • Preparedness for the anticipated FASB/IASB regulatory accounting changes
      • Track costs in the Manhattan RE Ledger at a more detailed level than an ERP system
      • Compliance with both and GAAP and FASB/IASB
      • Seamless budgeting and forecasting across all modules
      • Report on these costs with configurable dashboards, wizards, maps, on-line reports and portals

      Functionality

      • Real estate specific GL with granular charge codes
      • Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable
      • Full payment processing functionality
      • Multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, multiple languages and multiple periods
      • Double entry accounting with true debits and credits
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