What is the relevance of buildings and HVAC to the enterprise?
Enterprise systems are making a huge impact on corporations and other types of non-profit organizations including business financial systems, CRM (customer relationship management), human resources, and supply chain management. Companies like SAP, Oracle, and IBM, as well as consulting groups such as EDS, are providing integration services to make organizations very efficient. Buildings and facilities are now a significant area for organizations to include in such enterprise systems; corporations now appreciate that the effectiveness of their facilities can make a huge difference to their bottom line. There is currently no easy way for IT departments–whose responsibility it is to make all this happen–to integrate their systems with the systems that run, manage, and monitor their buildings and facilities. What’s important to note is that this has to be done on the IT department’s terms using their language, rules, standards and tools, and XML and Web Services have been created specifi
