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Integration of the Barclays Bank Merchandising Database Into the Property Change Process Barclays group
Barclays Facilities Management is responsible for all aspects
of the management and running of Barclays Bank Group
buildings in the United Kingdom, from the smallest rural branch
to the bank’s headquarters in London. This project migrated
the outsourced merchandising database back in-house and
integrated it into its existing Project Wise system, resulting in
an end-to-end merchandising process that saved $1 million
per year.
Property and Asset Management grandi stazioni spa
The external merchandising database was difficult to manage,
expensive to run, and often inaccurate. The migrated system’s
improved workflows and efficiencies include the elimination
of the third-party supplier and data ownership issues, true
synchronization of architectural and merchandising materials,
enhanced communication and speed in delivery of projects,
overall cost savings on projects, and faster access to all Barclays
merchandising data for reporting or analytical purposes.
As part of the Italian Railway State Company, Grandi
Stazioni owns railway stations in 13 cities. The project’s
objective was to modernize these facilities for the more
than 600 million passengers a year. With four departments
involved in managing documents and facilities information
— the current workflow consisted of about 20 steps to distribute information to other departments — the goal was to
streamline the process, reduce the amount of redundant
information, and centralize data storage.
By implementing the Project Wise collaboration system, the
firm now has a document management system that provides
powerful search capabilities, a central managed system for
all design documents, version handling for documents, minimal
handling of multiple file formats, advanced reference and xref
handling, Web-enabled file publishing, workflow tracking
and support, and accurate classification of documents.
