With powerful tools and utilities, Bentley Facilities allows the rapid capture of facilities spaces, asset information and modeling of organizational structures. Data from other corporate resources in databases, spreadsheets, drawings, and other types of documents can be integrated into the Bentley Facilities data model. "Dumb" spaces represented in drawings of the CAD department can be enriched with FM information, such as cost center and occupant(s), and can consequently be used for automatic area calculation based on a variety of industry standards, such as BOMA or DIN277. Incorporating powerful document management technology, links between assets and documents, like contracts, work orders, and photographs, can be established.

Benefits:
 significant time saving for the modeling of facilities data
 unparalleled integration of CAD and alphanumeric data

Bentley Facilities is tightly integrated with Bentley ProjectWise, a collaboration server that manages access to and synchronization of project information across a LAN, WAN, VPN, or through the Internet. Using a client/server architecture, it ensures secure storage of all facilities-related data and engineering documents and allows the management and granular control of access rights to facilities projects, sensitive information, and facility-related documents.

Benefits:
 secure storage, sharing and synchronization of facilities data in a managed environment

Facilities data can easily be accessed, queried, changed, and managed via a Windows interface and a graphical MicroStation environment. In addition, a powerful Web interface provides facility managers, casual users, and other departments with the full richness of the facilities information over the Internet or Intranets for enterprise-wide access. Powerful navigation and query options make it easy to locate and visualize facilities data within the context of the engineering documents. Users can browse document hierarchies (projects, sub-projects, documents, sets), location hierarchies (location, site, building, floor, room), organizational hierarchies (enterprise, division, department) or any other custom hierarchy.

Benefits:
 structured access to data
 better information for facilities decisions

Based on ad hoc or reoccurring queries, user-definable reports and information-rich facility maps can be generated that include facilities information, such as spaces, assets, occupants, labels, thematic re-symbolization, legends, and more. Therefore, corporate facilities can be evaluated on aspects, such as space utilization and occupancy, asset location and connectivity, related documents, relocation, and costs.

Benefits:
 Clearer visualization and communication of facilities information
 Visual planning aid for space planning and management

Using a powerful Web Reports server, ad hoc reports or report templates can be created and formatted simply by dragging and dropping Bentley Facilities table definitions of spaces, assets, occupants, and link definitions into a query window. These reports can then be run against Bentley Facilities data sources in a variety of formats, including PDF, HTML and MS Excel. Facilities managers can schedule reports, which can also include charts, and have them sent automatically to pre-defined recipients inside and outside the FM department. In addition, they can create their individual dashboards for quick and efficient overview of daily metrics.

Benefits:
 all users in the organization can easily access information
 server-side report generation
 accurate management
 User-configurable individual reporting dashboards
 Support for a variety of report formats, including PDF, MS Word and HTML
 scheduled reporting
 automated information flow
 monitoring of daily metrics

As the only constant in facilities management is change, Bentley Facilities incorporates powerful tools and utilities to initiate and manage move, refurbishment, relocation, maintenance, and other projects. Employees and their assets can simply by dragged and dropped into new spaces, while Bentley Facilities automatically manages inherent organizational, spatial, and asset properties, updates links, checks connections, etc.

Benefits:
 guaranteed consistency across all facilities information
 avoidance of errors and omissions

Customizable for any type of organization and scalable to any size, Bentley Facilities handles the largest and most complex facilities, such as airports, manufacturing plant, and global enterprises.

Benefit:
 no size limitations
 custom implementation, not off the shelf solution
 rapid implementation

While handling the most complex facilities situations, the user interface of Bentley Facilities is easy to use, intuitive, and self-explanatory, thus allowing facilities managers to fully exploit the powerful features and utilities. In addition to extensive user manuals, documentation, and online-help, Bentley’s experienced consultants can provide truly professional services to optimize any Bentley Facilities solution.

Benefits:
 shorter learning curve,
 empowered facilities managers
 significant savings in training costs
 greater return on investment

Bentley Facilities is fully integrated with Bentley’s other building applications, including Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural, Bentley Building Mechanical Systems, and Bentley Building Electrical Systems.

Space information created during the design/build process with Bentley Architecture can be used seamlessly in Bentley Facilities during the operations phase of the building. Users can continue to use Bentley Architecture to apply changes to the building structure which then updates the Bentley Architecture spaces and automatically also updates the Bentley Facilities information.

Benefits:
 Fully coordinated project information in a shared multi-disciplinary model
 Seamlessly work in an integrated Bentley Architecture / Bentley Facilities environment
 Seamless collaboration and interoperability with project teams of other firms or departments
 ‘Build as one’