<p>With the advent of technology and with the increasing demand of facility management across all industries, the standards and methods used to manage facilities have also improved. Initially facility management meant merely security services and janitorial services. The concept changed rapidly when large infrastructures were coming into use mainly for sophisticated technology uses. Facilities for Information technology Companies, BPO Companies, Banks, and other MNC offices needed much more sophisticated facility management. Also the Shopping malls, large shopping complexes, multiplexes and even large residential buildings came up with the need for state of the art facility management. More and more updated Software solutions were developed for facility management where most of the functions of facility management could be controlled by computers and simple instructions.</p> 

<p>The general modules used in such software solutions are work order management, maintenance management, inventory management, contract management, asset management, material management, space management, fleet management, project management, utility management and preventive maintenance management. These modules are customized, as the requirements for the each organization vary from each other. Due to the nature of customized software, companies can now deploy facility management software according to their requirements and demands. These software solutions are designed for ease-of-use, but they are robust enough to fulfill the needs of the most demanding professions. More recently web based facility management took those software on the web and allowed users and organizations to even remotely manage their facilities sitting at other locations. It is worthwhile now to spend money and time for the best facility management software available in the market since it is of paramount importance to know when a preventive maintenance is due or when it was last performed. </p> 

<p> With larger facilities it is difficult to keep track manually of huge number of equipments running and operating and lack of that information on the fingertips may cause serious damage to one section of the equipments which may quickly spread to other equipments or facilities and may cause the total operations of a building to shut down or come to a total halt. Using a facility management software you can avert a major break down which can be extremely expensive. A software program which informs you of the necessity of performing certain measures and keeping all of your machinery working at its best is a priceless resource.</p> 

<p>Many of the facility management software packages have started including the financial and accounting packages which help in decreasing the lost opportunity costs and exaggerated expenses, and providing the accurate manhours and mandays put into preventive maintenance and job cost accounting information in accordance to the time elapsed. May other packages also offer labor management and material handling tracking features. Calendar based automatic preventive maintenance scheduling, employee information modules and work order management facilities are provided by a few other facility maintenance software packages. </p> 
<p>Any company can go to the Internet and can browse through a host of companies available which are offering facility management software packages and also web based facility management. Extreme care should be taken while choosing an appropriate software package. All the modules must be checked thoroughly and investment should be made with the most robust package so that costly errors can be avoided and the software must be good enough to provide alerts for preventive maintenance to avoid costly repairs and replacements for infrastructure and facilities. </p>