To provide facilities that are optimized for function and efficiency, you need to have enterprise-wide awareness to improve operational and executive control of building management. By integrating information beyond the conventional choke point of existing buildings management systems and taking advantage of integrated analytical solutions, you can reduce costs and plan proactively and predictably for the future. The IBM portfolio of software, services and analytics can help you better meet the challenges of energy and space management for buildings on an enterprise scale.

Applying advanced analytics to the massive volume of data buildings generate to gain insights into operational processes is truly transformative to management insight and controls. The IBM Smarter Building solutions provide you with the ability to know the current condition across connected things. The solutions provide your maintenance division with a precise instrument for corrective actions, and deliver finance and operations the means to validate the realization of savings from process improvement. Over time, enterprise operations can get smarter throughout the supply chain from a deeper correlation of events at all levels. The effect can be consistent, enterprise wide savings gained through performance optimization, which is where most organizations are sub-optimized in terms of performance.

To help you get there, IBM has moved solutions to the cloud, with subscription services to simplify getting started and accelerate time to value. IBM Smarter Building offerings are packaged with connecting interfaces to an array of building source data systems, and can integrate that information into your maintenance management systems. IBM business intelligence capabilities provide customers with the ability to model and analyze patterns that drive better operational insights and results.

Today, IBM Smarter Building solutions can be supported out of the savings they produce from the operational budget, and do not require large investments in upfront capital. IBM business services teams understand the applications of the solutions in your environment, and help you model your operational goals and see them accomplished.

Specific advantages of using IBM Smarter Building solutions for today’s data-rich facility portfolios include:

• Applying analytics across descriptive, predictive and prescriptive business needs.
• Applying data and open information to enterprise solutions.
• Gain faster time to value and payback using operating expense models.
• Allowing existing subsystems to remain in place by applying advanced systems integration.
• Integrating data with varied maintenance management systems.
• Deploying integrated workplace management systems faster.
• Translating big data into higher value business intelligence.
• Using cloud technology for faster, easier deployment of integrated software and services solutions.
• Combining data interpretation services with analytics development and customization.