Services Overview: Speed to Value

Bricsnet brings Speed to Value to the management of your Real Estate portfolio, strategy and operations. Bricsnet understands that for our clients, technology is a means to an end. We provide world class technology solutions but we view our technology as part of a bigger solution that also includes rapid implementation, comprehensive user and administrator training, and expert advisory services geared toward customer understanding of how to best utilize our technology to solve real business problems.

While many systems with similar features can take years to fully implement – with service costs far outstripping your investment in software – Bricsnet takes a different approach. We want to get you up and running quickly, so that you receive rapid return on your technology investment, and realize rapid enhancements in your business operations. We have a solid track record of bringing targeted implementations online in a matter of weeks, and comprehensive implementations online in six months or less.

ProjectCenter: Bricsnet’s online solution provides the ultimate in Speed to Value for project collaboration and team communications. All you need to get started is a login and password – there’s no need for implementation or hardware. Training can be accomplished in an hour or less, and you’re set to go. First-rate Customer Support is available through a toll-free telephone number.

Bricsnet Enterprise and Bricsnet Retail: Bricsnet’s comprehensive solutions for real estate management offer something unique in the industry: Rapid results. We understand that no solution provides value until it is in the hands of your end users, and we get you there fast.

Bricsnet's solutions offer broad and deep functionality, with business processes fully configurable to each customer's specific needs. But unlike many large enterprise systems, Bricsnet offers its clients rapid implementation, often in six months or less.

• Delivery: To best meet our clients’ varied needs, Bricsnet is pleased to offer the industry’s most flexible delivery options. You can elect to subscribe to our software as a service at a fixed monthly rate, to purchase our system and have it hosted in our state-of-the-art data center, or to bring Bricsnet completely into your internal data center environment.

• Implementation: Regardless of which delivery option you choose, Bricsnet Professional Services will work with you to determine how to most quickly and effectively get you to work – and then to get the job done. We will help you to determine where it makes the most sense to utilize our robust out-of-box functionality, where configurations should be made to meet your specific business needs, and how best to interface to your other important business systems by leveraging Bricsnet’s Services Oriented Architecture and our comprehensive and robust array of Web Services.
  
  Bricsnet’s services team will work with you to develop a project plan that divides the work logically into six phases:

1. Requirements and Analysis: Bricsnet wants to meet all of your business requirements in a way that gives you measurable success. To do that we will carefully map out your requirements, and build an understanding of your current situation so that together we can determine the steps required to bring your information and people online quickly.
2. Module Configuration: Based on our understanding of your requirements, Bricsnet will determine how to leverage our flexible user interface to set up screens, workflows and business rules to match your processes.
3. Conversion: After reviewing your current information and systems, Bricsnet will bring your data into our system, at the same time helping you to improve accuracy and develop tracking mechanisms to improve performance.
4. Interfaces: In today’s business environment, technology systems need to work together to ensure accurate, up-to-date information and elimination of duplicate efforts. Bricsnet will work with you to develop automated interfaces that leverage our Services Oriented Architecture to provide seamless data and process interaction.
5. Business Intelligence: Many clients choose to supplement Bricsnet’s robust out-of-box reports with additional reports designed to serve specific needs. Bricsnet will help you define, and then design and execute reports that bring your information to life.
6. Rollout: Bricsnet will help you to carefully manage all of the rollout activities needed to ensure success: Data Validation, Testing, Training and more.

• Technology: Bricsnet believes that the best technology solutions leverage industry standards, including emerging standards such as OSCRE. Our offerings are 100 percent Java-based, and offer a full Services Oriented Architecture, providing ease of integration to other critical business systems. Bricsnet’s platform takes advantage of Services Oriented Architectural tools and features, to the benefit of our client base. Bricsnet offers a robust and complete array of Web Services that constitutes a key component of our Speed to Value proposition. Additionally, we incorporate non-proprietary, standards-based tools wherever possible, including our workflow and reporting engines, reducing cost and providing enhanced value to our global customer base.
• Support: Bricsnet’s Customer Support department is ready and available to quickly resolve any issues you encounter and to make sure your operations are uninterrupted and smooth, whether you are accessing Bricsnet through our data center or yours.