A cultural and operational development process has been taking place in the last few years, in the property sector; the purpose is to line up the many aspects of the real estate assets management to the industrial plants. For the real estate business as well as for the plants it is becoming increasingly more strategic to be able to run efficiently and effectively the real estate assets as the equipment, to optimize the technical-maintenance costs, safeguarding their economic value for their technical-maintenance knowhow. This applies particularly in case of outsourcing contracts of the "non core" business.
The management of the assets and of the annexed technological equipments can be faced with IB, by using technological tools and organizational solutions planned and distributed from his Company's Business Unit Facility. It also offers high added value services to all companies to some extent involved in the estates maintenance management process, independently from the final use of the latter. IB provides the following technological solutions and consultancy services to the managing and maintenance companies:

In the last few years IB and its tools have contributed to the cultural growth process of the market, for an efficient and effective management of the properties. The basis is the correct accomplishment and updating of the property and equipment inventory. This is done using the most suitable software and the correct consultancy support service and starts from the stocktaking aspects related to any type of property asset. IB then supports its clients in the organic and integrated structuring of the properties technical and maintenance management service. The maintenance informative system InfoFACILITY® plays a leading role in obtaining the right balance between the maintenance and the preservation investments for the life cycle of the assets. This can guarantee the complete management of: property inventory, "space management", maintenance activities, and of all the relevant general aspects. .
Keeping as a basis the experience made in other market sectors IB has achieved a complete package of services and products for this sector, and in particular:

• count, stocktaking, and technical master construction of buildings, equipments, IT technologies, etc. part of our clients' assets, and for which the InfoFACILITY® platform will be employed. The count activity uses the methods prepared by IB on an ad hoc basis, and uses the Intelligent Map® tool, capable of automatically detecting the architectonic and plant-engineering elements of the cad plans;
• The InfoFACILITY® platform, for the complete technical management of property assets, is modular and scalable in numerous applicative modules. Continuous research and innovation have prompted IB to enrich the high added value functionality platform, thus satisfying the most demanding clients by the progressive growth of the application.
• Data centre hosting of the applications provided, to allow the property manager and/or its own management facilities providers, to remotely use the InfoFACILITY® platform without the direct picking of a technological infrastructure, which needs expertise, knowhow and a constant maintenance;
• Data entry service, data control and monitoring;
• Analysis, design and development of ad hoc software applications, to satisfy the technical maintenance management needs, both innovative and technologically advanced.

IB has provided a specific service level based on the exact content of the activities entrusted to the company by the clients of its FACILITY sector. Basis for such operation were the clients' specific needs, their organizational structure and the both strategic and operational targets at the start of the project.