Foundations Manager

Foundations Manager Main Tasks

As a Foundations Manager, you have these main tasks: 

• Develop initial facility data (you might choose to outsource this task).
• Maintain this facility data when developed.
• Manage basic aspects of your facility, such as departmental space assignments and employee occupancy
• Manage the requests from self-service users, such as requests for maintenance, reservations, and services.

Sample Users

To help you become familiar with Archibus Foundations and its tools, there is a sample database and sample users that you can use to work through the lessons.

Getting Started

• Lesson 1: Sign in, navigate, and find data
• Lesson 2: Manage space and occupancy
• Lesson 3: Manage requests for meeting space and working space
• Lesson 4: Manage move requests
• Lesson 5: Manage work requests

Facility Data

Now you can enter your facility data into the Archibus system. After this data is entered, you can use the concepts covered in the above lessons to manage your space inventory.

• Lesson 6: Develop your own space and occupancy data
• Lesson 7: Enter your equipment
• Lesson 8: Enter maintenance supporting data

Business Process

As a facility manager with an understanding of operations at your site, you can define business processes and set up kiosks and QR codes.

• Lesson 9: Configure how Archibus handles service requests

Kiosk and QR Lesson

• Lesson 10: Set up kiosks and print QR codes

If you want to quickly create a few records in order to experiment with Workplace and the Service Console, see:

• Mange Requests made in Workplace

Reports

Advanced: If the set of out-of-the-box reports do not suit your needs, you may wish to create your own reports. See:

• Reports Central