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VFA Joins Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate
Provider of Facilities Capital Management Solutions Promotes
Common Real Estate Software Standards and Interoperability
BOSTON, MA – April 17, 2007 – VFA, Inc., the leading provider of
end-to-end solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management, today announced it
has joined the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) to help promote common software
standards for the real estate industry. Melanie Ziegler, vice president of software development
for VFA, will serve as a member of the OSCRE Facilities Management Workgroup, a sub-group
focused specifically on building operations and maintenance, safety and security.
“We are pleased to welcome VFA as a supporting member of OSCRE,” said Andy
Fuhrman, CEO of OSCRE. “We look forward to its contribution to promoting open format
standards for sharing information about real estate assets across multiple software applications.”
“As a provider of enterprise-level software solutions, VFA recognizes the importance
of OSCRE’s mission to enable multiple software systems to seamlessly exchange data about
real estate assets through the use of common standards,” said Jerry Kokos, President and
CEO of VFA. “The adoption of OSCRE standards will provide tangible benefits for our
company and our clients by shortening development cycles, reducing the complexity of systems
integration, and helping organizations better leverage the strategic value of information
about real property assets.”
About OSCRE America
The Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) is a 501(c) 6, non-profit organization
of industry leaders driving development and adoption of e-business standards using the OSCRE
Standard™ an electronic data exchange model. OSCRE supports the real estate supply chain,
representing stakeholders who use real estate as either an Investment, by investors, owners,
brokers, and advisors who buy and sell assets as their core business; or a Resource, by owners,
operators, and tenants who manage or use the portfolio of space as a facility. See
www.oscre.org.
About VFA
Headquartered in Boston, VFA, Inc. is the leading provider of end–to–end
solutions for facilities capital planning and asset management. VFA’s
Capital Planning and Management Solution (CPMS™)
uniquely combines
facility assessment services,
Web-based software and business consulting services to enable customers to manage every stage of the capital asset lifecycle — from requirements gathering
and long-term planning to capital budget creation and spend management. VFA has helped over 350
organizations in corporate, education, government and healthcare markets to strategically manage more
than two billion square feet of real estate. For more information, please call 800-693-3132 or visit
www.vfa.com.
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