New Features in this release:

• 1) Grid-Layout: This is a major feature that's going to be handy for Space Management module in several ways.
• Irrespective of using AutoCAD, Grid layout feature can be utilized for understanding the space usage in each floor of the building
• Grid layout is a customizable tool kind of a feature, where you can presume cubes as rooms of a floor
• Resize those cubes to intuitively fit the layout and click and drop the decided cubes in the respective places of the layout outline
• Each cube pertaining to a assumed room can be color coded to differentiate its room type
• The resources associated with each rooms can be viewed in the grid layout then and there
• Also the users associated with each rooms can be viewed for the required details in the same screen
• Vacant rooms can be visualized and hence making spot and quick decisions and relocations can be made easier
• 2) Integration with ServiceDesk Plus
• Hopping from FacilitiesDesk to ServiceDesk plus is made easy now for the technician who handles both the system
• When a user or supervisor wants to lodge a request to "ServiceDesk Plus" while they are logged in FacilitiesDesk, maintenance request form will have the necessary fields to route their ServiceDesk request to ServiceDesk Plus [provided the ServiceDesk Plus settings are incorporated in FacilitiesDesk]
• 3) Meeting room booking for recurrent meetings
• As the title simply suggests the meeting rooms can be booked for the repeat meetings that will happen at regular decided intervals..be it daily, weekly or monthly

Apart from these feature FacilitiesDesk 5 has localized versions available in Spanish and Russian.