Release 10.8.1

MainManager, edition 10.8.1 was released on the 6th of May 2013.

Release additions and changes have been sorted into 4 categories in the Release Document.

1. General alterations which apply to all users.
2. Add-ons to features and modules, available to all customers who have access to these modules, subject to service fee only.
3. New features obtainable upon payment/licence fee and service fee.
4. Special solutions to meet the needs of certain customers which can be developed further for other customers subject to payment.

EFMC 2013

Again this year MainManager attended the European Facility Management Conference in Prague. More than700 hundred FM-professionals from over Europe, Asia, Middle-East and USA visited Prague to share knowledge and Ideas on Facility Management. MainManager sponsored the conference and we had a booth at the event. Our team of 5 MainManagers had the pleasure of meeting many of our existing client, but also enjoyed having the opportunity to extend our international network with in the facility management industry. We are looking forward to next years conference in Berlin.

MainManager‘s success leads to second place in Fastest Growing Company Award

On 3rd of May the minister of education, science and culture handed ICEconsult the the Federation of Icelandic Industries award „Vaxtasprotinn 2012“ (e. The startup 2012) for being the second fastest growing company in its size catecory in Iceland.

The main milestone on the path to getting this award is the release of MainManager Version 10, which enabled MainManager to be full-fledged, fully web based FM software. Things are now moving fast in Denmark, Norway and UK and we expect to add Sweden and Australia soon. The MainManager team is growing slowly but surely, and the count is now close to 40.

We are now working on many extremely exiting new features. Among those is new workflow oriented user-interface that will increase visibility and productivity. This addition is planned to be included in the release this fall. MainManager will be present on EuroFM 2013. Be sure to visit our booth to get a sneak and peek of the exiting new features.

Links to further information about the award(in Icelandic):

www.si.is
www.vb.is
www.visir.is
www.mbl.is
www.nmi.is
http://rannis.is

Akranes municipality

The municipality of Akranes has decided to use MainManager as their main CAFM system. Akranes will be utilizing the systems core processes, which gives them overview over their facilities and the proper functions to support building maintenance and renovation projects. Included are options for project planning, service contracts, work orders, incident handling and connection to accounting system.

Akranes has indicated that they are looking at implementing other key processes from MainManager, like energy optimization, asset registration and CityDirect.

Facts: Akranes has 6.600 citizens and owns property around 33.800 m2 in total.

Statsbygg Energy module

As some readers may know, the Norwegian state facility operator, Statsbygg, awarded ICEconsult with a multiyear contract for the implementation of the facility management system MainManager.

Shortly after the contract had been signed, Statsbygg‘s energy department requested a meeting and a presentation to see if MainManager could be used for registering, monitoring and analysing it‘s energy expenditures. The data for the energy usage would also need to be presented in an accessible and user-friendly interface (as lists, graphs or reports).

Because Statsbygg is a very eco friendly company, it monitors it’s energy expenditures carefully and is also adamant about reducing energy usage and waste whenever possible. For this reason Statsbygg chose to launch a pilot where the energy consumption of 50 facilities will be monitored, registered and analysed through graphs, lists and reports in the MainManager. The next step will then be to monitor the energy consumption for the rest of Statsbygg‘s facilities portfolio.

Statsbygg required some additional features which have now been implemented in the energy module. The changes made will benefit our current customers and simplify the energy module as well as adding to it. One example of this is the new energy consumption analysis interface where the user can analyse energy usage any way he chooses.

The State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR)

ÁTVR has chosen MainManager as their CAFM system to support the function of Facilities Management in the organization. To start with ÁTVR will be utilizing the core processes of MainManager to get a better overview of their facilities and to support building maintenance and renovation projects in their 48 retail stores located all over the country.

This includes functions for project planning, service contracts, work orders, incident handling and connection to their accounting system. ÁTVR has the option of increasing the use of MainManager in the near future by adding other key processes, like energy optimization and asset registration, to their current workflow.

Facts: ÁTVR has 48 retail stores and several other buildings, 46.000 m2 in total.

University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen and ICEconsult has entered into an agreement on the implementation of MainManager CAFM. The work started with the agreement on submission of procedures for “construction to operation” for the new extension of Panun complex.

The project is visualized in this video by Rambøll

Secondly we are modeling the right setup of MainManager modules at the old University. The University also intent to use the mobile alert for interaction between the users and the FM-department.

Facts: University of Copenhagen has a total of 950,000 m2 of buildings.

Kalundborg kommune

In Denmark The municipality of Kalundborg have chosen MainManager CAFM to go along with the implementation of facility management processes. Kalundborg is starting out offering 3.500 employees access to a helpdesk for registration incidences and reactive maintenance.

Kalundborg is pursuing a long-term strategy on facility management, and MainManager is supporting every FM-decision with the right FM-process and key performance indicators measuring the expected improvements.

Phase 2 is implementing processes for preventative maintenance and space management

Facts: Kalundborg, 49.000 citizens, 220.000 m2 space management.

Gardabær municipality

The municipality of Gardabær decided to use MainManager as their main CAFM system and upgraded from version 9 to version 10. This means the municipality will increase their overall use of MainManager focusing on the systems core processes, which gives them overview over their facilities and functions to support building maintenance and renovation projects.

Options for project planning, service contracts, work orders, incident handling and connection to accounting system is included. Gardabær has indicated that other key processes from MainManager, like energy optimization, asset registration and CityDirect, could be useful in the near future.

Facts: Gardabær has 13.900 citizens

Faxe kommune

The Danish municipality in Faxe have chosen MainManager to support new processes in their estate, road & parks department. Faxe is starting out with a helpdesk for reception and handling of all incidences from users of the facilities in the municipality. The citizens will also have an app for incidents reporting to the FM-department in GIS-visualization of roads and parks will be an important factor and feature in improving the challenging communication and level expectations between the citizens, service workers and the FM-department in Faxe kommune.

Facts: Faxe Kommune, 35.000 citizens, 235.000 m2 buildings.