eFACiLiTY® has undergone lot of improvements and enhancements in the last 12 months in our endeavour to make eFACiLiTY® to become the world’s best CAFM software. The following key improvements have been made in eFACiLiTY®,

General Enhancements

  • Improved user interfaces and layout
  • Footer Alerts for work orders, HDS calls & Leave/Permission Approvals
  • Enhanced Security Policy
  • Workflow Engine to create customized workflows
  • Online/Offline Approvals over email
  • Support for various SMS alert types

Maintenance Management System

  • Inventory module to manage all station spare items with request, transfer and procure spare across stations
  • Quality Acceptance for inventory received into stores
  • Spare life cycle tracking and scrap management
  • FIFO policy to manage perishable/non-durable items
  • Provision to convert Asset to Inventory and vice versa
  • PPM Library with standard policies in-built
  • Write In / Write Off feature for spares

Helpdesk & Knowledgebase System

  • Silverlight (Rich Internet Technology) version for excellent User Experience
  • Footer Alerts for calls logged
  • Enhanced SMS Alert for Technicians & Operators
  • Improved email notification configuration
  • Customized Alerts on events updated in requests

Time & Attendance System

  • SMS Attendance System with provision for:
  • In/Out Time Clocking
  • Leave/Permission Requests
  • Interactive & Automated “Help” replies to users
  • SMS Attendance Clocking Report
  • Ability for administrators to bulk approve user exceptions
  • Provision for administrators to control advance leave application

Visitor Management System

  • Configurable approval workflow for appointments
  • Gate Pass request with provision to include assets, inventory or other items for issue
  • Barcode scan search provision for faster visitor data retrieval

Facility Booking System

  • Integration with MS Exchange Server to display user calendars
  • Multi-level support for Visual Booking

BMS / BAS Integration
eFACiLiTY® has been successfully integrated with Desigo Insight, Siemens Building Management System

SIERRA has launched the following modules in eFACiLiTY® in 2012
eFACiLiTY® – Space Management module that helps in ensuring effective and efficient use of space available in a facility. eFACiLiTY® – Space Management System helps in tracking the space available in the facility and allocate space to departments and employees in an efficient manner, track occupancy for utilization analysis and reporting, help in department or project or account wise charge back and accounting leading to an efficiently managed space. The ability to manage the space by visualization of floor-plans by importing AutoCAD drawings, visually allocating space and display of utilization analysis dashboard augment the user friendliness multi-fold.

eFACiLiTY® – Card Management System helps to manage the creation, issuance and tracking of badges and passes to employees, contractors, daily visitors like drivers of employees, etc.

eFACiLiTY® – Travel Requests Management helps the travel desk to track and manage all travel related requests like air ticket reservation, visa processing, foreign currency purchase, hotel reservations, car rentals etc., handle approval processing and raise orders to vendors.

eFACiLiTY® – Project Management module provides an integrated system for maintaining Project details, Time and Attendance details of all employees. This application has the provision to perform the daily attendance and time sheets, project details and to generate the analysis reports. The project can be defined with start and end date, estimated hours and Resource Allocated. The project Status can be viewed instantly with Hours consumed so far and Projected Hours. The tasks can be defined with Task Category, Task Status, start and end date, estimated hours, Resource Allocated and Predecessor for respective projects. Task Summary, Current Overrun and Projected Overrun can be viewed in dash board.