Accruent FAMIS 360 vs. Equips

[Well suited when] Linked to EMS - when planning an event that requires furniture delivery or room type changes, we can select that in EMS and create a report that feed to FAMIS and assigns a crew. OR, if you create the work order in FAMIS, have it be able to import back to EMS to include in the booking.

Incentivized

Equips is great to handle multiple units at different locations and maintain stats. As for managing 3rd party vendors, Equips still puts some of the responsibility on me to respond to 3rd party invoices. This was well Managed when I first stared with Equips over 3 years ago. As of lately, this seems to be slacking on a bigger scale. Almost every time I make a service call for our color copiers, I later receive an invoice from the vendor, and an invoice-reminder from the vendor. This is currently an ongoing issue which concerns me about adding any more units in the future.

• The ability to create new reports and format them to exactly what you are looking for in a said report.
• Finding mistakes as far as user errors or placing information in the wrong fields or boxes. Interfaces can be made to track these things
• Key Access portfolio, tracking keys for all of our building users

Incentivized

• Handles communication well.
• Easy to use portal.
• Quick response time.

• Needs to be more fields for "pick up/drop off times," or to put in deadline times.
• More communication back and forth to users and the person the order is assigned to. When updates are made, there is no notification that they have been acknowledged.
• It would be nice to have pricing associated with different requests. It is a guesstimate every time on how much labour or time will be needed. Some sort of price menu would be great so when we check the financial page of the order we are not surprised every time.

Incentivized

• I still get invoices from the 3rd party vendor. Equips has inconsistent directions on how to handle this.

Equips is more affordable in comparison and we still get to use Ricoh through them.

• Accountability of work being done on campus
• Ways for us to charge our customers for the work being performed

Incentivized

• We've saved money by switching to Equips.