SAN JOSE, Calif./EWORLDWIRE/Feb. 4, 2004 --- Landport Systems, the pioneer in automated facilities management, today announced that the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP) has selected Landport's on-line facilities management service for its Oakland, CA properties. UCOP is fully operational with Landport.Effectively managing diverse and distributed properties is an ongoing challenge for virtually all facilities managers. As organizations like UCOP audit and assess their physical infrastructure, many are looking to automation as a way to improve productivity and reduce facilities management costs. Automation is required to meet key business challenges such as facilitating good communication between employees, vendors and building managers, minimizing overhead for service requests, addressing safety concerns, attending to preventative maintenance, and closing work orders quickly and efficiently.
Landport is an Internet-Driven(TM), automated facilities management system that fully automates employee, facility manager and service provider interactions. Landport enables employee / manager and manager / service provider transactions such as preventive maintenance and facilities management. Landport provides employees with the ability to report problems and request services using their web browser. Facilities managers and service providers are immediately notified, allowing them to quickly take action.
"The exceptional automation Landport delivers enables us to fulfill one of our most important facilities mandates: Higher efficiency at lower cost," said Mike Keleman, Director of Building Services, University of California, Office of the President. "Landport clearly compliments our facilities quality control efforts and new, web-based space inventory program."
Landport dramatically improves productivity and time-to-results, while reducing the significant overhead of time and money. Landport enables property managers to provide more timely, higher quality service. The result is significantly reduced costs, higher productivity and satisfied employees. Landport is ideal for Property Managers, Facility Managers, Preventive Maintenance Management, Janitorial & Contractor Services, Facilities Maintenance Companies and On-site facilities staff.
About the University of California
The University of California has over 192,000 students and 157,000 faculty and staff, with more than 1.2 million alumni. UC's 9 campuses - with a 10th opening in 2004 - provide exciting environments that foster world-class educational and research. UC has dozens of museums, concert halls, art galleries, botanical gardens, observatories and marine centers. A half million people benefit from UC Extension's continuing education courses located throughout the state. UC manages three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos, and five medical centers that handle over three million patient visits a year. These centers comprise one of the largest health care systems in California. UC is also actively involved in global locations beyond its campuses, national labs and medical centers.
About Landport
Landport Systems has developed a powerful Facilities Management Service designed to help Property Managers, Facilities Managers and Service Providers increase their productivity and efficiently manage their time and resources. Landport's Service dramatically improves property and facility management, enabling managers and service providers to reliably and effectively manage more and larger properties, improve customer satisfaction and retention, and offer consistent, high-quality service at the lower cost. The company is privately held and based in San Jose, California.
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