IBM TRIRIGA Strategic Facility Planning

Advanced strategic planning tools

• Identify the impact of future business demands on the existing supply of facilities and assets, and alert you to gaps between business unit forecasts and space availability.
• Provide a real estate portfolio framework that includes strategic and tactical facility plans that can be readily implemented using automated tasks.
• Collect and compile critical business and facility asset information in one central location.
• Use configurable benchmarks to compare facility usage, condition and costs with company business goals and industry data.

Space planning analysis and metrics

• Compare what-if planning scenarios with financial, environmental and operational targets to allocate facility resources more efficiently.
• Model space planning scenarios visually with interactive supply and demand controls and stack planning capabilities that assess business unit allocations.
• Assess the impact of new facilities, lease terminations, lease renewals and headcount reductions on facility plans and space usage.
• Use predefined metrics, such as performance scorecards, to compare the forecasted requirements of business units with available space.
• Analyze and rank space planning scenarios to identify optimal facility configurations and help improve financial performance.

Automated facility management processes

• Translate facility plans into specific work tasks automatically based on approved planning scenarios to accelerate increased facility utilizations.
• Update personnel space assignments and cost allocations automatically after facility changes are completed.
• Initiate automated projects and tasks for real estate acquisitions and dispositions, construction project management and move planning and implementation to increase the efficiency of plan execution.