BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS, September 2007 –- Planon, a global provider of enterprise real estate and facilities announced today that Fortis, a provider of banking and insurance services to personal, business and institutional customers, has selected the Planon IWMS Solution on an international scale to improve efficiency, standardize processes and reduce costs. Planon is a global leader in integrated workplace management systems software with a global reach specializing in the convergence of Facility Management, Corporate Real Estate, Services Management and Maintenance Management disciplines.
Planon has already been in use at Fortis Insurance in Belgium and Fortis Bank in the Netherlands. After a formal tender between mostly existing Fortis suppliers, Planon won the project for an initial cross-border implementation in Luxemburg, Turkey and the complete Fortis operations in Holland. Main reasons for Fortis to proceed with Planon are the standard but highly configurable software that has proven its value in several multi-country projects. Secondly the capability of Planon to implement on a cross-border scale by using both international as local consultants proved to be a major plus.
The first scope of the functionality will be focusing on supporting the Service Desk operations such as Helpdesk and Reservations including a web based employee self service solution. The Fortis countries that are part of the project will be going to use one cross-border Planon database. The current Dutch database will be reconfigured to support a multi-country environment including multi-language and multi-currency functionality. Planon will develop Outlook integration for people to book rooms, catering and equipment directly from Outlook into Planon.
After successful implementation of this first project phase the intention is to broaden both the functional and geographical scope. After completion of the first phase Fortis has the intention to include more Fortis countries, such as France, Poland and UK, on the same database to provide corporate products and services to local operations around the world. The advantage of one system is that Planon enables Fortis to streamline, standardize and benchmark their FM business processes, which in turn is essential for them to effectively anticipate and respond to change.
About Planon
Planon is a global software provider of Integrated Workplace Management Solutions (IWMS), enabling corporate customers to cut costs and add value by centralizing and automating all their enterprise real estate and facilities management operations. The Planon series of solutions include Facility and Space Management, Operations and Maintenance Management, Project Management and Real Estate Portfolio Management. In business for more than 25 years, Planon has more than 1,300 clients in 16 countries. The Company’s U.S. Headquarters is located in Braintree, Massachusetts.
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