Drawings-as-a-Service
Manage and maintain all your as-built drawings with a single subscription.
VLogic’s turnkey Drawings-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription lets customers reap untapped savings and efficiency by using a unique combination of facilities drawing development services and cloud-based software to standardize drawing upkeep, ensure accuracy, and streamline accessibility.
As-built drawings are key sources for determining facility metrics. These metrics are critical for scoping level of effort infacility management projects, including cleaning & maintenance efforts, employee / departmental utilization, and regulatory compliance.
Value Proposition
Given the critical importance of as-built-based metrics, VLogic DaaS is designed to ensure that the drawings themselves are:
- Accurate
- Consistent across all facilities; and
- Accessible beyond the facility department.
Savings
- VLogic DaaS is a turnkey solution that replaces multiple vendors, and their associated administrative costs, at highly competitive rates.
- Using one vendor ensures common assumptions, symbology, and nomenclature, increasing compliance accuracy, and reducing risks of costly compliance failures.
- A centralized drawings repository with easy, 24/7 access, allows effiicient access by all enterprise stakeholders without the need to funnel requests through the Facility group—saving significant time. For example, for healthcare departments:
- Finance can calculate Medicare/Medicaid facility-related reimbursements from VLogicFM Excel distribution reports, or
- Environment of Care can directly view patient room square footage reports, to scope cleaning times and costs.
- Though single facilities, like individual medical centers, will benefit from DaaS, multi-hospital systems will find the greatest value across multiple facilities.
Components
VLogic DaaS uses both software AND services to render the values identified above:
Services
Onboarding: Finalize current as-builts and associated facility data, regardless of format, including:
- Convert paper versions to CAD
- Develop master composite drawings if none exists, using multiple existing versions
- Migrate customer space data to VLogicFM, such as room numbers, space functions, room descriptions, etc.
- Prep and upload all drawings to the cloud
- Configure the software with customer user information
- Train customer users
Ongoing: Update as-built drawings:
- Unlimited times during the subscription
- Rapid turnaround by experts
- No extra fees beyond the subscription fee
Software
Cloud-based as-built repository to store and access CAD as-built files, with:
- Rapid search, beyond file names, by site, building, floor, discipline, description, etc.
- Centralized access, 24/7 on Web browsers or mobile devices — no complex CAD software needed
- Built-in version control to eliminate drawing version confusion
Cloud-based as-built repository to store and access CAD as-built files, with:
- Intelligent drawings, integrated with facility database containing: IDs, departments, descriptions, dimensions, functions, risk profiles, photos, etc.
- Drawings-centric search using any of the data fields mentioned above
- Space utilization reports, ideal for Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements and department charge-offs
- Track cost of space usage by square footage and cost line item/service line
Solution Model
All DaaS components are included in one periodic subscription fee, that is charged monthly, quarterly, or annually, per customers’ preference.
In addition to DaaS, VLogic can also provide the following services on-demand, per separate, project-based statements of work:
- Onsite verification surveys to measure a facility’s physical space to verify these measurements against existing CAD drawings, or to create missing as-built drawings.
Frequently Asked Questions
VLogic coined the term Drawings-as-a-Service. It is a subscription service that combines VLogicFM software drawings repositories with VLogic’s expert as-built drawings update services to do three things: (1) Update all customer architectural and MEP/utility as-built drawings to a fully current state, (2) Migrate these master drawings to the cloud, and (3) Maintain currency on an on-going basis into the future, with integrated, unlimited update services—at no additional cost.
DaaS enables customers to standardize as-built drafting services across the enterprise, leading to lower costs, common drawings nomenclature/symbology, and a much faster turnaround. The end result: as-built drawings that are updated all the time, faster, better, at a more reasonable price.
DaaS subscribers get access to the As-built module, Utilities module, and two basic modules: System Admin & User Preferences. Customers can add more modules at their discretion.
Only a monthly subscription fee. No high, onboarding costs (with up-front subscription commitment). Furthermore, there are no hidden fees and no additional drawings update fees.
No. You get the same, fully functional tools, including advanced search and revision controls for your as-built drawings.