Tell us your “why” in the FM world?

Companies are facing a new set of challenges recovering from the recent pandemic workplace disruption. Not only is the global economy still trying to digest the financial impact of factory closures, supply chain disruptions, and economic incentive programs, companies are dealing with the unprecedented change in the workplace dynamic. For the foreseeable future hybrid work is here to stay. In response companies are having to manage under-utilized and unutilized office space – which introduces lease management and capital planning challenges, operations and maintenance challenges, and space planning challenges. In this environment companies must reevaluate their real estate and facility management processes/solutions. They must recognize their real estate and FM challenges are interconnected and rely on the same data foundation for optimizing their processes and decision making. They can no longer rely on manual processes or siloed solutions to successfully manage their properties. Companies must adopt an integrate management environment which rationalizes an end-to-end solution for the property lifecycle -from acquisition through disposal. The lifecycle solution should help address processes like property acquisition, space build-out, lease management, space planning/management, operations and maintenance, sustainability and the final property disposal. A lifecycle solution can create and leverage a single source of truth (information) across all the processes ensuring decision making is timely, optimized, and clearly reported.   

How is IBM TRIRAGA changing the FM industry?

The IBM TRIRIGA Application Suite is a leading Integrated Workplace Management Solution (IWMS) which offers an end-to-end lifecycle solution for managing real estate and facilities. One value of an integrated solution is that you do not need to worry about managing connections for the basics of property management – this saves time, money and resources, while also being fundamentally more reliable. This means TRIRIGA offers comprehensive functionality to manage your properties from acquisition through disposal without locking you into a pre-defined process - TRIRIGA can be customized for any unique characteristics of your business as well as offer extensions to interconnect with your IT ecosystem and third-party applications. The ability of TRIRIGA to manage complex asset portfolios has been time-tested by Fortune 500 companies, while at the same time TRIRIGA’s ability to start small and grow as needed is what sets it apart. Many companies justify TRIRIGA adoption based on its ability to help them resolve a single major real estate/FM challenge. Once in place they realize they can easily expand its usage across other areas of their property lifecycle management, eventually leveraging the wealth of the TRIRIGA solution to establish a complete end-to-end solution. TRIRIGA’s ability to establish that single-source of property management information is the cornerstone of the power of an integrated workplace solution. The TRIRIGA Application Suite is so adaptable that IBM Global Real Estate selected it as their real estate and FM solution for IBM’s global properties after a comprehensive market evaluation.