Eptura’s latest innovations offer unparalleled visibility into real estate, employee trends, and the built environment
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eptura, the global leader in worktech innovation, today introduced advancements empowering workplaces to seamlessly integrate disconnected technology, adopt cutting-edge AI and automation, and harness data for strategic long-term planning. With the power of a unified Eptura platform, cross-platform data analytics, and embedded AI, the innovations enable businesses worldwide to maximize their investments and seamlessly connect their people, workplaces, and assets.
“As the challenges of managing the workplace with disconnected technology increase, Eptura is advancing solutions that boost connectivity, deepen insights, and maximize enterprise value,” said Brandon Holden, CEO at Eptura. “Since pioneering a unified platform for people, workplace, and assets, we’ve continued to innovate, expanding our portfolio to offer intelligent worktech that seamlessly integrates every organizational aspect of the built environment.”
Featured product innovations include:
- Introducing Eptura Envision data analytics: This advanced business intelligence consolidates occupancy, real estate, and asset data to produce streamlined reports for strategic decision-making. Pre-built dashboards and simplified reporting will help leaders identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the built environment featuring lease and occupancy data, with additional datasets to be incorporated in 2025.
- Secure visitor check-in with facial recognition (preview): From front offices to secure facilities, organizations can speed entry and enhance security using facial recognition to validate visitor identity. Eptura’s facial recognition technology bolsters security by automatically verifying identities through real-time facial scans and lobby kiosks.
- Unified experience and access to Eptura capabilities: Eptura has streamlined its user experience by introducing a single home page login, unifying access to its platform.
Eptura’s latest release introduces new features and integrations to enhance digital connectivity and improve workplace information flow.
AI-driven value and intuitive workplace experiences
- Enhanced workspace scheduling: Enterprises can sync bookings and calendar events across Microsoft Exchange resource calendars, user calendars, and meeting rooms. Eptura expanded room booking hardware compatibility to include Android devices. Now users can reserve desks, lockers, and parking spots in 15-minute increments.
- Intuitive in-office collaboration with AI for Team Days: Enterprises can improve teamwork by using AI to plan Team Days more easily. This feature considers individual schedules, needs, preferences, and proximity to automatically select the best workspaces for the group.
- AI-powered reservations utilizing Microsoft Copilot functionality (preview): By integrating space bookings with Microsoft Teams, employees can use conversational AI to quickly plan collaboration days, book desks, and reserve meeting rooms.
- Concierge menu for workplace experience app: When employees start their workday, Eptura serves as a central hub with a customizable homepage menu for administrators to add shortcuts to important office announcements, communications, events, catering requests, expense logging, weather updates, and other frequent services.
Data-led insights
- Enhanced visitor control and configurability: Enterprises can efficiently scale visitor management across multiple locations and reduce administrative workload with the ability to copy settings, select configurations for transfer, and apply settings in bulk.
- Real-time availability and occupancy information: New integrations with Freespace sensors and Fortinet switches provide enterprises with deeper insights and actionable information from sensor and Wi-Fi data, improving space efficiency through real-time visualization and analysis of seat availability and occupancy.
- Advanced asset data tools: Enterprises can centralize physical asset data in one accessible repository, with powerful reporting and dashboards to guide maintenance, operations, and capital improvement strategies.
Comprehensive built environment management
- Comprehensive building information modeling (BIM) data: Building on Archibus by Eptura’s BIM Viewer, this solution leverages 3D BIM technology and digital twins to enhance space reporting and occupancy management, offering a unified visualization of building systems and spaces for optimized planning and sustainability, without requiring Revit or 3D CAD training.
“At Eptura, we believe that seamless connectivity and insightful intelligence are the cornerstones of modern enterprise success. Yet, many leaders find themselves constrained by disjointed technologies and isolated data, hindering their ability to optimize real estate, elevate employee experiences, and maximize asset longevity,” said Fabrice Martin, Chief Product Officer at Eptura. “To address these challenges, we’re thrilled to introduce a suite of new capabilities across our product line, including a unified login, advanced AI, and a powerful data analytics offering, all designed to eliminate barriers and consolidate solutions.”
Eptura will launch the announced features throughout the remainder of 2024 and early 2025. To join the live virtual product announcement event or watch on demand, visit the product announcement page.
About Eptura™
Eptura is a global worktech company that digitally connects people, workplaces, and assets in a unified platform, to enable our customers to thrive. With 25 million users across 115 countries, we are trusted by the world’s leading companies, including 45% of Fortune 500 brands, to realize a better future at work. For more information, visit eptura.com.
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