AERES

Architectural, Engineering, and Real-Estate System

AERES is our premiere web-based software solution for real-time facilities management. Designed for university and college campuses, AERES stores and maintains asset information and all related documents. Some sample uses for AERES:

Store information on each campus building (name, street address, etc), along with the building's as-builts, floor plans, and photographs. All the documents are available online for immediate viewing.
Store the usage of each room (classroom, laboratory, office, etc), along with complete renovation history: access architect drawings, handicap access statements, etc. all online
Store real-estate information, including the owner, lessee, and acreage, and access topographic maps of the real-estate with a single click.
Create projects and track the evolution of assets over time; record and report on project budgets and access invoices, project plans, etc. all from your web browser.

Overview

The core features of AERES:

Online access to university facilities assets: buildings, rooms, and real-estate.
Web-based access to any document you wish to upload and assign to an asset.
Easy to use query system designed for both novice and advanced users.
Classify construction, renovation, and purchase activities into projects and track project documents and budgets.
Grant or deny access to particular buildings, rooms, or projects.
100% browser-based: works with Microsoft IE 5+, Netscape 4+, and Opera 3+ browsers.
Our "one price covers it all" guarantee; you will never pay license fees for access to AERES.

Why not take a moment and try our online demo; it's 100% operational and completely free!

Turnkey solution

We have engineered AERES to be an out-of-the-box solution, allowing you to immediately begin managing your facilities assets without hassling with installation details. Here's how it works:

When you purchase your AERES solution, we load the AERES software onto a server we have custom-engineered to maximize document retrieval.
We next tailor AERES to match your university's colour scheme and logo requirements.
We then deliver and install the server at your university's computing center.
We configure the server to run daily, weekly, and monthly backups that fit your backup policy.
We provide the administrator password to you, turn the server on, and you may begin uploading data immediately.

It's that easy!

Data security and backups

Because of the sensitive nature of facilities data, ideacode engineered AERES to the highest security standards:

Users must authenticate themselves to AERES via a username and password.
AERES transmits all data over a 128-bit encrypted (https) connection.
Backups are made to a physically separate backup server (part of the server package we provide) over a private network. The backups are stored on removable hard drives (accessible only by a key), which may be placed into physically secure locations.
Runs on a Linux-based server, which has been shown to be significantly more secure than equivalent Microsoft solutions.

All deployed AERES servers automatically contact ideacode and download security patches as they become available, which ensures your AERES investment is always protected.

Reliability and Support

ideacode offers support agreements that go all the way to 24x7 on-call technicians and 99.999% uptime guarantees. However, to put AERES reliability in perspective, in over two years of operation no AERES server has ever had any unscheduled down time.

More information

Are you interested in learning more about AERES and how it can help your university organize its facilities assets? If so, contact us today!