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Kimberly-Clark Centralizing Global Real Estate Management Data Using ARCHIBUS IWMS Software

Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, 2010 – Consumer and medical workplace products giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation has a far-flung real estate portfolio that, until relatively recently, was difficult to manage due to decentralized property and facilities management information.

That has changed thanks to the company’s efforts in consolidating its North American facilities data and, now, doing the same with the information on its overseas operations.

The worldwide roll-out of its ARCHIBUS IWMS software  to centralize and standardize facilities information and processes is being spearheaded by Steve Farashian and Azariah Stevens, Systems/Technology Specialist and Facilities Management Strategic Analyst, respectively, at Kimberly-Clark.

The RE/FM data centralization duo described their efforts to rationalize data management and oversight of the company’s properties at the recent International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference sponsored by ARCHIBUS, Inc. (www.archibus.com), the #1 developer worldwide of real estate, infrastructure and facilities management software.

With operations in 35 countries, the data centralization project began at the company’s Roswell, Georgia facilities. Those facilities comprised 34 buildings and 2 million square feet of space containing 5,500 employees. That implementation was then extended to Kimberly-Clark’s other North American properties in the U.S. and Canada, a portfolio totaling approximately 35 million square feet. The system now keeps accurate, consolidated information on those holdings, which include 351 buildings, 121 active leases, 8,300 acres of owned land, and nearly 400,000 acres of severed mineral rights.

“Before we centralized all our real property and facilities management information, there were leased mineral rights we didn’t know we had,” Farashian noted.

The Farashian/Stevens team used ARCHIBUS Space, Building Operations, Real Property & Lease Management applications, as well as equipment tracking software, as their foundation IWMS platform.

“But to go global in 2010, the Centralized Real Estate Group has begun a database expansion project that will gather portfolio information for all of Kimberly-Clark’s properties beyond North America,” reports Farashian. His team, furthermore, developed a customized Web-based real estate GUI that makes their job easier by streamlining access to building, lease and other vital management and operational information.

“One of the other big benefits of our IWMS implementation has been improved document management,” Farashian points out. “We scanned all our leases and other documents, which were captured as .PDFs. We also have a lease contact management feature that shows tenant/management options and responsibilities relating to maintenance, landscaping and so forth.

“We can now track and analyze all cost information using ARCHIBUS and its comprehensive reporting,” Farashian adds. “Most importantly, the real estate group will finally be able to manage leases, properties, and other real estate-related matters in a centralized and proactive way  no matter where those properties are.”

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ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions and services with the total annual expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.7 Billion (USD). Through effective innovation and business transformation, ARCHIBUS users save their organizations over $100 billion annually. With ARCHIBUS, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability. ARCHIBUS is the world-wide proponent for the creation of ubiquitous environmental sustainability.

ARCHIBUS is the #1 TIFM (Total Infrastructure & Facilities Management) solution in the world. More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and Web users collectively manage over 5,000,000 properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 130 countries and in more than two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure and facilities management technologies since 1982. For more information, visit archibus.com.