BRIGHTON, England, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --     Driven by the global credit crunch, enterprises are forced to find new
ways for immediate cash savings. In addition the pressure for sustainable
buildings, energy control and CO2 reduction is huge. The new Planon
suite-release 2009 offers new functionalities to meet these requirements.

Potential for cost reduction

Buildings contribute more than 35% to global CO2 emissions. Market
research shows that on average today's workplaces are occupied only for 50%.
In a downturn economy this offers huge potential for short term cost
reduction, to save money for your core business, and to become much more
flexible in supporting the company's workforce.

New functionality

Planon's Hotelling solution supports flexible workplace concepts
resulting in improved utilizations and corresponding space-, travel-,
energy-, and cost reductions. Full integration with Microsoft Outlook(TM) for
reservations eases the accessibility to meeting rooms, e-conferencing, and
shared facilities to reduce time consuming, expensive, and CO2 producing
travels. New mobile solutions for Professional Field Services support 'just
in time' maintenance to meet legislation, efficient resource utilization, and
greener buildings.

Sustainable standards

The adaptation of sustainable standards like LEED and BREEAM complete
Planon's support in Green Building initiatives.

Green Workplace Economics(TM)

Organisations need to eliminate waste, align services demand, and improve
organisational agility in Corporate Real Estate and Facility Management
processes to meet cost reduction and simultaneous greener operations. Planon
now unites all these goals in a concept called Green Workplace
Economics(TM).The concept centres around gaining profit through cost savings
while simultaneously improving environmental sustainability. The concept
Green Workplace Economics(TM) is more and more adopted by the market and
enables Planon to continue huge its R&D efforts (18% of turnover) to support
organisations in executing cost reduction programs and green operations.

Gartner Group

About Planon

Planon is an independently owned provider of software and consultancy
services. Planon optimises and automates support processes for departments
such as Facility Management, Corporate Real Estate and IT Services, as well
as service provider processes. The goal is the efficient, integral
organisation of services, infrastructure, buildings and resources. With its
new "Green Workplace Economics(TM)" concept, Planon capitalises on the
necessity for many organisations to save costs and simultaneously achieve
sustainability objectives. Planon is active in 14 countries, with offices in
the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the USA and
India. Planon serves more than 1300 clients worldwide.

http://www.planon.co.uk