Planon FAQs

  • Who is Planon best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    Who can use Planon's solutions?

    Our advanced capabilities help optimize workplace performance across all industries. They simplify business processes and reduce costs throughout the real estate life cycle, which is beneficial for professionals in many roles.
    - Real Estate Owners and Occupiers - Achieve great organization performance through improved efficiency, quality in processes and reduced costs with our IoT-enables IWMS
    - Facility Management Service Providers - Connect with your customers and work towards stronger relationships through transparent communication, efficiency and sustainable innovations
    - Financial Professionals - Keep your compliant lease management, calculation of profit & loss related costs, cash flows and balance sheet parameters for leases updated
    - Higher Education Institutions - Drive efficiency, sustainability and improve the campus experience for your campus community

  • What makes Planon a leader in this space?

    - Integrated by Design: Planon Universe integrates seamlessly with other third-party offerings, including those designed for ERP, finances, HR and more.

    - Accelerator: The Planon Accelerator design combines feedback and experience from various implementations to provide users with a best-in-class configuration optimized for their business.
    Real Estate Management: Users can collect real estate data from multiple sites into a single instance of truth for guaranteed consistency and reduced redundancy. Planon improves visibility into real estate costs and streamlines the management process.

    - Asset and Maintenance Management: Planon Universe supports facility managers in their building and asset maintenance tasks. It records asset information and maintenance history in a central database that lets users search, streamline, and optimize their maintenance management program.

    - Sustainability Management: Planon promotes sustainable business practices by offering a sustainability management module. It measures energy consumption, tracks meter readings, logs carbon emissions, and monitors costs associated with utility use. Managers can watch relevant KPIs to monitor performance and report on important metrics to comply with industry standards.

    - Space Management: This module helps users manage space efficiently, optimize occupancy and comply with industry regulations. Planon aligns vision with reality and helps management keep up with their organization’s changing needs. It offers CAD drawings, digital floor plans, maps and more to visualize space use and asset location.

  • How/why is Planon better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Planon is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

    - Improve Efficiency and Performance: Management can track work orders, plan space usage, keep an eye on sustainability practices and much more with Planon Universe’s centralized facility management hub. It offers reporting to gain visibility into day-to-day operations and work order management that streamlines technician workflows.

    - Reduce Costs: Planon’s IWMS optimizes an organization’s workspace and occupancy, reducing wasted space and saving money on space usage. It also provides sustainability management features such as energy consumption monitoring to help lower overall costs.

    - Accelerate Implementation: Planon offers pre-configured workflows, roles, catalogs and dashboards based on industry standards and best practices gathered from all instances of Planon to get users up and running as soon as possible.

    - Make Facilities More Sustainable: Users can monitor energy consumption, carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics in order to manage costs, cut down their carbon footprint and reduce waste. Planon offers assessments based on industry standards to validate and track sustainability efforts.

  • Does Planon offer a trial or free download available?

    Try our new mobile app for free

    Today, employees expect the workplace to adapt to their needs. As a facilities or workplace manager, your challenge is to enable people to conveniently organize, access and adjust their workspaces, services and facilities based on who they are, where they are, and what they are planning to do.

    How can you maintain and improve the workplace experience in this hybrid working era, in which many workers are not regularly at the office? Planon has a mobile workplace app that's designed to make workplace users feel safe, comfortable and productive when navigating and using the work environment.

    Some features of the app:

    Book rooms, desks, and other facilities
    Offer relevant, bookable facilities to the right workplace users
    Request workplace services and report issues
    View space information by using interactive floorplans
    Find colleagues
    Provide an efficient, personal user experience

    Combined with Space & Workplace Services Management or Planon Workplace Edition, the app connects your people with their workplace, services and facilities in a personalized way.

    Try it today at: https://planonsoftware.com/us/resources/demos/planon-workplace-app/

  • Does Planon offer any kind of training/education for their product?

    Planon offers standard or customizable classroom training, solution-specific e-learning courses and blended learning to take advantage of both.