I have recieved quite some questions from our readers to what extend vendors of Integrated Workplace Management Systems have been suffering from the Credit Crunch. Although I have already written a post about this subject the questions increasingly deal with the financial status of the vendors themselves.

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A new year is about to start and although this should be time of laughter and sheer joy unfortunately 2009 is not. As the majority of US and European corporations feel the bitterness of the financial crisis corporate investments in Integrated Workplace Management Systems have been reduced to an absolute minimum.

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In dynamic corporate cultures scalability of software is one key topic. Mergers and acquisitions (or even worse… ) thrive scalability issues and when you are selecting an IWM Solution this needs to be taken into account. Although it might seem obvious to you as a reader quite some organisations find themselves in a nasty situation [...]

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The area of Workplace management is going through a fundamental change where ‘Agile workplace allocation’ principles are being adopted. In this concept the worker does not have a predetermined workspace for his/her own use, but rather they can choose from different workplace environments that best suit the tasks they have been assigned.

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Space management is about systematically registering of space demand and usage within the organization to manage and register space usage in an optimal way. It is used to minimize reduce space vacancy and optimize the usage of space in every organization.

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Within an IWMS software selection procedure the requirements definition phase is mission critical for a succesful project. Therefore, fundamental requirements research is an absolute necessity. In the coming few articles IWMSnews.com will publish about ways to do this research. 

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Office space costs are high, typically the third or fourth highest cost of organizations. This is why implementing workplace management solutions are significantly impacting the operating margin of companies. 

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Organizations which have been in a software selection procedure know that it is very time consuming to evaluate the vendors who propose a solution. One of the problems with Integrated Workplace Management Systems is the broadness and diversity of the workplace arena. Because most organizations do not have required knowledge in house quite often an [...]

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