Johnson Controls Expands Facility Management Technology
3 December 1998
Johnson Controls Expands Facility Management Technology Integration Offering With Investment in Computerized Facility Integration, LLC.
ATLANTA, Dec. 2 -- Johnson Controls Integrated Facility
Management has announced a major strategic alliance and investment in
Computerized Facility Integration, LLC. (CFI), the largest corporate real
estate and facility management technology consulting and integration firm in
the United States.
Through this alliance, Johnson Controls and CFI have significantly
advanced the industry standard for workplace technology integration and
performance improvement. Johnson Controls plans to leverage CFI's expertise
with best-in-class technology across its 1.2 billion square-foot client
portfolio. This investment is representative of Johnson Controls' commitment
to providing clients with optimum workplace performance and profitability
through the application of global best practices.
CFI implements space forecasting, lease management, asset tracking,
maintenance management and geographic information systems technology for
Fortune 500 companies. CFI focuses on integrating these technologies with
other systems (i.e., HR and Finance) across the corporate enterprise to allow
single point of management.
The integration of best in breed technologies provided by CFI will allow
Johnson Controls' clients unprecedented control over their real estate
portfolios. Seamless access to critical data and shared resources translates
into powerful increases in organizational performance efficiency and bottom
line results.
Johnson Controls Integrated Facility Management provides world class
integrated facility management and workplace consulting services to global
corporations by incorporating industry best practices. Together with CFI,
Johnson Controls now enables corporations to focus on their core business
while their facilities are maintained with state-of-the-art technology
systems.
CFI specializes in the integration of technology that supports corporate
real estate and facilities management. CFI's clients include Fortune 500
corporations that have implemented best-in-class technologies for the built
environment. CFI provides its clients with dramatic return on technology
investments. This addition to the Johnson Controls' Integrated Facility
Management offering brings significant value to corporate real estate groups.
"Johnson Controls is committed to providing our clients with IT solutions
and decision support tools for real estate and facility management.
Typically, our clients have made a substantial investment in multiple
workplace support technologies. We feel our agreement with CFI is a further
commitment to helping clients realize the full value of their investments,"
shares Mike Lamach, Vice President and General Manager of Johnson Controls,
Integrated Facility Management, Commercial North America.
"This is truly a strategic alliance; the world's largest integrated
facility management firm aligning with the nation's premier real estate
technology systems integrator. Johnson Controls and CFI both focus on
leveraging best practices and showing our clients bottom line results," adds
Bob Verdun, President of Computerized Facility Integration.
Johnson Controls Integrated Facility Management, with headquarters in
Atlanta, provides facility management and workplace consulting services for
many Fortune 500 companies, managing more than one billion square feet of
facilities around the globe.
Johnson Controls, Inc. , is a global market leader in
automotive systems and facility management and control. In the automotive
market, it is a major supplier of seating and interior systems and batteries.
For non-residential facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control
systems and services, energy management and integrated facility management.
Johnson Controls, founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis. Its
sales for 1998 totaled $12.6 billion.