Getting Results with Archibus
Energy
With high energy costs, new sustainability mandates, and “cap and trade” legislation discussions, energy management is top-of-mind at all organizations. The Archibus Energy application is a cost management program that analyzes your energy costs and helps you make decisions for today's energy-conscious business environment.
Unlike spreadsheets or your finance software alone, Archibus provides degree-day features for normalizing fluctuations in weather, energy-specific audits for finding errors in complex energy bills, and what-if analyses to evaluate the potential costs of energy increases or savings due to conservation, renovation, co-generation, or demand-response agreements.
The application enables you to flexibly manage your utility bills. For example:
- If you receive energy bills that are for more than one building, you can use the Enter Bills for Groups of Buildings task to enter bills for that group of buildings, and have the application prorate the bill using the proration method you define for the group.
- If you have linked internal meters to vendor accounts, you are able to receive alerts when the discrepancy between the measured values from your electrical meters and the billed quantities exceed a certain threshold.
Unlike standalone applications, Archibus can map your energy data to buildings to match energy use with your strategic master plan, and to your lines of business to match the energy spent against your business plan.
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Energy |
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Location |
Archibus non-SaaS
Archibus SaaS
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Business Result |
Correlate portfolio information, such as spaces and leases, with energy, weather, billing, and maintenance data in a unique way. Measure, benchmark and reduce your total consumption and costs. Comparisons of normalized consumption and cost per sqft or sqM per building or division. Perform “what if” analyses on energy cost changes or programs. |
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Used By |
Energy Managers / Facilities Director Cost Administrator Real Estate Managers Accounting Supervisor Contracts Manager Firms with outsourced Real Estate Management |
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Reasons for Automating |
To save time by reducing the manual effort involved in energy cost accounting. To gain transparency into energy costs and reduce errors in payments. To identify key targets for energy cost reductions by conservation, renovation, or strategic moves to more energy-efficient buildings. To evaluate the dollars-and-cents impact of possible changes in energy cost and the impact of energy reduction programs, such as weatherizing or window replacement. To quantify progress towards carbon footprint reduction goals, and to reduce strategic risk due to regulatory changes. |
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Recommended Prerequisite Applications |
None. The application can stand alone and can be the first Archibus application deployed in an account |
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Reports / Results |
Bill Calendar Archived Bills and Line Items Bills and Line Items Cash Flow Report Year-to-Year Cost Comparison Cost per Area for Multiple Locations. Consumption per Person Compared Billed Usage: Current vs Previous. Prorate Utility Bills Prorated / Aggregated Bills "What-If" Scenarios Thematic Energy Map Metrics Utility Bill Metrics Cost and Usage Usage with Weather Model Portfolio Analytics Utility Analysis Console |
The following are typical users:
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Energy Manager / Facilities Director |
Review individual bills, and analyze metrics and other data to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint. |
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Cost Administrator |
Enter data from the utility bills into the Archibus Utility Bills table. |
| Accounting Supervisor |
Review and approve utility bill records.
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| Contracts Manager |
Cross-correlates costs with commitments, such as contracts and leases. |
| Business Process Owner |
Defines required validating data such as weather stations, geographic areas, bill types, accounts, vendors, cost categories, and the company's organizational structure. |