Book a Workspace with Archibus Workplace Portal

Book a Workspace with Archibus Workplace Portal

Mobile technologies, high-speed internet and secure VPN access enable personnel to work virtually anywhere. When employees are not physically in the office for most of their workday, they may not require a dedicated office space. Archibus’ Hoteling application supports this paradigm of flexible occupancy and enables organizations to refine their space utilization rates and realize efficiency and cost savings by creating agile neighborhoods and manage flexible occupancy for personnel that are not on-site full time.

The Archibus Workplace Portal and Hoteling application with its self-serve Booking Tool, enables organizations to manage agile space and gain efficient utilization, enabling them to:

  • Better adapt to the ever changing work environment by offering agile office space.
  • Improve employee satisfaction by providing personnel with seats on an as-needed basis.
  • Improve productivity by enabling teams to find and book collaborative work space.
  • Analyze space utilization to determine space needs and adjust.
  • Provide employees with efficient self-serve tool for booking seats in advance.

Perform Neighborhood Bookings [1:00m]

Workplace Bookings with Amenities [0:41m]

Clean Hoteled Rooms [1:57m]

Track Shifts and Phases [1:10m]

Book a Desk Near a Colleague [0:41m]

What is Autodesk Forge and why is it important for Workplace & Facility Management

What is Autodesk Forge and why is it important for Workplace & Facility Management

What is Forge?

Forge is Autodesk’s cloud development platform that can be used to build innovative, cloud-powered applications. Veteran AutoCAD users remember the third-party add-on applications that used Autodesk program interfaces (APIs) to boost AutoCAD functionality by creating new features. Based on the same concept, Forge is a cloud-based development platform with numerous application program interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that allow for a wide variety of applications to be created, from viewing 3D models to transforming 2D images into 3D models, helping you connect workflows and enabling data to flow easily across projects and industries.

Check out the video to see what kinds of solutions can be build using the Forge platform, and some examples of how companies are using Forge to streamline and innovate how they work.

 

 

What Can You Do with Forge?

  • Improve existing software or build new custom solutions using industry standard web technologies
  • Accelerate your existing online workflows or create new solutions
  • Helps streamline the complexities of manufacturing, engineering, and construction industries by connecting players, components, and processes
  • Centralize your data and connect it to all points of the industry supply chain, empowering you to transform the manufacturing process
  • Create digital experiences that access any kind of design and engineering data—virtually anywhere, any time
  • Scale as your customers’ needs change or as you innovate

 

Example:  How Resolve uses Forge in BIM Collaboration

Resolve decided to try Forge APIs to make BIM 360 part of its immersive meeting workflows. The BIM 360 API did exactly what Resolve wanted, which was to seamlessly connect its solution to design models stored and shared in the cloud through BIM 360. As the Resolve team dug deeper, they realized that the BIM 360 API would help them quickly add features they’d planned to develop in-house, including integrated issue management and design option support.

The founders of Resolve had a vision: use virtual reality (VR) technology and BIM (Building Information Modeling) to enable immersive design and construction coordination meetings. The idea was to let project teams “gather” in 3D design models to spot issues and collaborate to enhance designs before—or even during—construction. Where others were using VR for client presentations, Resolve created collaborative 3D environments. Many leading design and construction firms have adopted Resolve technology. They find that they can bring all project stakeholders together to work through issues. Plus, it’s easier to identify visual clashes that interference detection tools have difficulty spotting. Users like that Resolve works with sophisticated VR computing systems and standalone viewers, making it easy for any project stakeholder to join a meeting with a minimal equipment investment.

 

Forge highlights include the following:

  • Saving as much as 6 months of development time for issue management and design option support
  • Helping customers launch immersive meetings instantly using the most up-to-date model
  • Speeding the process of addressing visual clashes by making VR coordination part of BIM 360 workflows

 

Forge Integration in Archibus

Building managers responsible for asset reliability and maintenance need access to all asset details that were established in BIM during design and construction. They need to be able to pull up that information online, in one place.

Recent updates with Archibus have been focusing on integration with Autodesk Forge. This will enable you to:

  • Visualize system connections
  • Plan maintenance
  • Build digital twin integrations

 

For more information contact [email protected] or call us at 201-792-6300

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What’s New in Archibus V.2022.01

What’s New in Archibus V.2022.01

Click to download the release notes and review the revision history to learn about the new updates, Web Central enhancements, and Workplace features in the latest release, as well as these exciting integrations:

  • Autodesk Forge Building Console
  • BMS Integration Charts and KPIs
Webinar: How Integrated Autodesk & Archibus Technology is Connecting AEC & Building Operations

Webinar: How Integrated Autodesk & Archibus Technology is Connecting AEC & Building Operations

 

Webinar held on February 7, 2022 at 11 am ET

Enabling greater integration between BIM workflows and asset management capabilities.

In today’s environment, the role of building owners and operators is changing. On one hand, they’re striving to combat climate change through improved building efficiencies. On another hand, they’re keeping up with creating flexible, resilient workplaces as working conditions undergo change.

To meet these challenges and enable digital transformation in their building operations, building owners and operators need access to comprehensive tools and data that give them full visibility and insights.

Join us for a discussion about how to fully bring BIM into building operations to support the strategic planning and management of physical resources during operations.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

  • The benefits of extended capabilities across the building lifecycle
  • How BIM data adds value on top of workplace and asset solutions
  • How Autodesk and iOFFICE + SpaceIQ are making these capabilities a reality

Register to attend. Even if you can’t make the live broadcast, you can register to receive an on-demand recording after the show.

 

For more information contact [email protected] or call us at 201-792-6300

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Efficiently Maintain Facilities and Assets with Archibus OnSite

Efficiently Maintain Facilities and Assets with Archibus OnSite

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Log4j2 critical vulnerability – Archibus Web Central 25.2 and above

Log4j2 critical vulnerability – Archibus Web Central 25.2 and above

**IMPORTANT UPDATE**
Today, a fourth notice was released regarding the log4J vulnerability and as a result, we have updated our instructions to require updating to version 2.17.1 rather than version 2.16 or 2.15 as reported earlier.

We were recently notified of a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in a logging component (log4j) that is used to enable logging in many popular applications which can be exploited to enable remote code execution on servers within Cloud/SaaS, Hosted and On-premise environments that are exposed to the internet. Web Central version 25.2 or above utilizes the affected version of log4j and presents a risk from the newly discovered arbitrary code execution exploit in the log4j library. This vulnerability is rated as Critical to Severe and patches should be applied immediately, no later than the end of the week.

For information about this log4j vulnerability, please visit the latest reports:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44832 *NEW
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45105 *NEW
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45046
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228


This vulnerability impacts web applications using the Log4j2 versions less than or equal to 2.14.1. According to Apache, this impacts only the org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core. However, we are recommending that you replace all 3 log4j libraries in the Archibus war with updated versions. All Archibus SaaS environments have already been patched with the updated appropriate versions as described below.


This does not impact versions of Web Central 25.1 and below, but will impact all installations of Web Central 25.2 and above.

Updated Instructions:
Follow these steps to remediate this vulnerability:

  1. Stop Apache Tomcat Service
  2. Remove the “Catalina” folder from:
    • X:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\work
  3. Remove all the files/folders inside the “temp” folder from:
    • X:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\temp
      DO NOT DELETE THE ENTIRE TEMP FOLDER
  4. Remove the “schemaComplied” folder from:
    • X:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\webapps\archibus\
  5. Go to the “lib” folder:
    • X:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0\webapps\archibus\WEB-INF\lib\
  6. Delete “log4j-api-2.1x.x.jar”, “log4j-core-2.1x.x.jar” and “log4j-slf4j-impl-2.1x.x.jar”

  7. Download & extract Zip. Paste updated files inside the “lib” folder the following jar’s:
  8. Start the Apache Tomcat Service

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to [email protected].

Sincerely,

Robotech Support Team