The New Standard in Physical Infrastructure Management
Your core IT systems and building/facilities assets are intrinsically interconnected to the most precious strategic asset of all – your workforce. And the workforce never sits still. It is constantly changing, moving, and adapting in response to shifts in the business. Which means your infrastructure must be able to change with equal agility and fluidity to support those shifts.
Thousands of employees in dozens of different facilities – how do you manage the myriad of IT and building systems needed to keep these employees working at peak productivity?
With iTRACS Converged Building Systems™ (iCBS™).
iCBS is a robust physical infrastructure management software solution that can address your management requirements across your entire facilities/campus landscape. From servers in electrical closets to HVAC, lighting, security, and emergency communications systems, iCBS brings all of the performance and agility of iTRACS CPIM™ software to the world of facilities management.
The next generation in physical infrastructure management software.
Only from iTRACS.
Managing today’s facilities presents a wide spectrum of challenges beyond building codes, cabling, and geographic locations for the workforce. Environmental regulations, LEED requirements, energy efficiency codes, carbon reduction initiatives, resource limitations (water, power), clean energy source requirements – are just a few of the challenges impacting the design and management of your facilities. Navigating these challenges requires the ability to understand the full context of the IT and facilities infrastructure across the whole of the enterprise. It requires the iCBS software solution from iTRACS.
HVAC. Mechanicals. Security systems like access control and surveillance. Lighting. Elevators. Even parking lot systems. Everything can now be seen and managed by iCBS software in a single, integrated IP-connected environment. The benefits – higher workforce productivity, increased asset performance, greener buildings, lower costs, and higher business value – are enormous.
Managing smarter and faster with iCBS.
Energy management. Reducing energy consumption and costs associated with the entire physical infrastructure.
Asset management. Optimizing the utilization of IT and building/facilities systems throughout their lifecycles, from acquisition to decommissioning.
Availability management. Proactively identifying the impact of failures and maintenance outages on the organization and the workforce.
Risk management. Establishing controls and records-keeping to meet regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc.
Service management. Monitoring the satisfaction of service requests to identify gaps and implement corrective actions where needed.
Supply chain management. Improving coordination of IT and facilities equipment delivery and disposal to reduce operational costs.
Automation. Automating the planning and execution of infrastructure service requests, eliminating manual steps and speeding time-to-delivery.
Visibility
iCBS offers a holistic, intuitive 3D representation of the entire facilities and building systems ecosystem. It understands and shows you with real-time 3D visibility:
- How to optimize the productivity of your workforce by maximizing the efficient use of your core IT and building systems. Personnel changes, real estate transactions, energy and other infrastructure initiatives – all of these require careful planning and execution across the infrastructure landscape.
- The interdependencies within your physical infrastructure – how a change in one asset ripples across the infrastructure with impacts not just in technology, but in people, processes, energy consumption, and operational costs.
Management
At the core of iCBS is a real-time repository of physical infrastructure information, encompassing building systems, power, location, and operational data. Because iTRACS software can see all assets and their interrelationships using this master database, it can help you plan and execute your infrastructure initiatives – from energy conservation to building security – with a new level of speed, agility, and automation.
- Provides automated workflows for many tasks that other systems make you handle manually
- Creates scheduled work orders for complex multi-site initiatives – automatically
- Helps ensure that work is conducted smoothly between departments and that the entire IT staff understands the impact of even the smallest change to the building infrastructure
Need to reduce your HVAC energy costs and get greener? With a few clicks of a mouse, iTRACS can scan power usage across all HVAC units, confirm where greater energy efficiency could be achieved, and recommend the best strategies to get there.
Optimization
iCBS is all about managing Change. How can you best see it coming? Respond to it? And predict its impact? In this new paradigm, optimizing your building systems for performance and cost efficiency is all about managing Change:
- Leveraging a holistic, in-context representation of your building systems to do predictive modeling of “what if” scenarios
- Building intuitive “trial and error” models that test and confirm the impact that changes to building systems will have on the performance and efficiency of the work environment
- Doing all of this testing and predictive modeling of Change not in the lab or on the floor, but in iTRACS software – where it’s absolutely harmless – you simply point and click
Your choice of deployment.
You can deploy iCBS™ as a standalone solution for infrastructure outside of the data center, or you can combine it with iCDC™ in an integrated enterprise-wide platform that lets you manage the entire physical landscape – both inside and outside of the data center – using a single user interface and a single master database.
Either way, your investment in iTRACS CPIM™ software is 100% protected, as it’s easy to integrate additional capabilities or modules into your existing iTRACS platform.
