Empowering Hybrid Work with OpenBlue Employee

OpenBlue Employee offers solutions for organizations with powerful, integrated scheduling features. Built for flexible, collaborative workplaces and designed to increase efficiency and productivity for in-office and remote employees. OpenBlue Employee features desk and resource scheduling, interactive floor plans, contactless workflows, visitor management, and much more.

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Workplace Experience Technology for Every Strategy

Johnson Controls’ OpenBlue Employee suite of products is a cloud-based platform designed to increase efficiency and drive productivity in today’s dynamic, digital workplace. From conference room reservations and service management to agile work strategies and interactive floor plans, OpenBlue Employee offers cuttingedge technology, integrated hardware and industry-leading expertise in implementation and change management. Flexible, robust and scalable, OpenBlue Employee empowers your workforce.

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What does it mean to have an ideal workplace experience?

It means empowering employees to access the spaces and resources they need to do their best work. Whether you have traditional assigned seating or a flexible, hybrid model, employees need easy access to connect and collaborate. Johnson Controls offers a workplace experience platform that allows employees to reserve collaborative space, arrange on-site meetings with catering or IT services, submit service requests, and efficiently manage visitors.

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Room & Resource Scheduling

Quickly find and reserve rooms, equipment and services for your remote and in-office employees

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Hoteling & Desk Sharing

Give employees easy access to calendars and reserve spaces with the convenience of mobile scheduling

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Service Management

Streamline complex orders and keep service providers one step ahead of your fast-paced organization with pricing and inventory controls and a dynamic management console.

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Interactive Floor plans

Desk-sharing initiatives are the future of modern workplaces as cloud and mobile technologies offer an ‘anytime, anywhere’ work style

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Outlook Integration

Make the most of your Outlook calendar by integrating with our room booking and resource scheduling software

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Event & Visitor Management

Ensure events and visitors are managed properly from start to finish. Set up new events and capture critical information with a few simple clicks

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IoT Sensor Integration

Measure actual workspace utilization and identify patterns and trends to build a smarter workspace

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Workplace Services & Booking Hardware

Simplify operations and encourage collaboration with streamlined service management and interactive booking hardware

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Reporting & Analytics

Dive into the data and analyze trends by location, person, or department to understand what spaces are underutilized and under-performing

Room Scheduling

  • Powerful scheduling from multiple devices
  • Configurable reservation workflows
  • Robust catering and service management
  • Interactive floor plans for visual scheduling

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Comprehensive Scheduling

  • Intuitive scheduling with options for recurring desk reservations
  • Optional health policy acknowledgement feature provides documentation for regulatory compliance
  • Integrates with Microsoft Outlook, WebEc, Cisco TMS Video Conferencing, and more
  • Timeline comparison for multi-location and multi-timezone meetings

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Mobile Scheduling

  • Mobile scheduling from an iOS or Android device
  • QR Code Reader for touch-less reservation check-in, checkout, and auto-release
  • View desk availability for quick, on-the-fly reservations
  • Optimized search results based on past use and preferences
  • Meet Now functionality to see immediate desk availability

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Synchronize Your Systems

  • Application integration for seamless, connected workflows
  • Lower cost and make smarter decisions from a single UX and UI
  • Integrates with Microsoft Outlook, WebEx, Cisco TMS Video Conferencing, and more

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Service Management

  • Quickly find and reserve rooms, equipment, and services
  • Comprehensive scheduling includes options for recurring, multi-day and multi-resource reservations
  • Create reservations and send meeting invites from the web, Outlook, or your mobile device
  • Streamline internal operations with a dynamic service management system that includes inventory control and reporting

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Visual Floor plans

  • Reserve directly from interactive floor plan
  • Search by location or workspace type
  • Search for co-workers and teams
  • Check-in and out of workspaces using QR codes, RFID badges, or integrated sensors
  • See reservation density and proximity to other resources

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Visitor Management

  • Automated visitor booking
  • Booking confirmation sent to visitor
  • Quick & secure parking access
  • Visitor self-service check-in kiosk
  • Automated visitor badge printing
  • Host notifications
  • Visitor safety induction management
  • Integration options

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Attract & Retain Talent

  • Gain insights into organizational dynamics to desk a workplace that reflects how people actually work
  • Determine what type of space (desks, conference rooms, huddle spaces) people need to be productive
  • Control environment settings in a manner that improves the well-being of your employees
  • Respond to the needs of your mobile workforce with collaboration spaces and data-informed agile work strategies
  • Drive employee engagement with real-time displays of space availability via digital signage and mobile devices

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Workplace Services & Booking Hardware

  • Simplify operations and encourage collaboration with streamlined service management and interactive booking hardware.
  • Easy access to services for both employees and service providers ensures great meetings and events; checking-in at the panel gives visibility to planned vs. actual utilization.
  • Auto-release functionality for no-shows

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Reporting & Analytics

  • Occupancy sensors
  • Area sensors
  • Environmental sensors
  • Bookings Data
  • Space & Lease Data
  • Maintenance Tickets
  • Financial Data

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Product FAQs

Who is the product designed for?
To help facilities teams effectively manage even the most demanding building portfolios, Johnson Controls created our Workplace Management Suite. An integrated suite of powerful Web-based facility management tools that helps organizations improve the management of space, occupancy, assets, moves, maintenance, leases and property.
How does OpenBlue Employee help users?
OpenBlue Employee offers solutions for organizations with powerful, integrated scheduling features. These solutions are built for flexible, collaborative workplaces and designed to increase efficiency and productivity for in-office and remote employees. OpenBlue Employee features desk and resource scheduling, interactive floorplans, contactless workflows, visitor management, and much more.
How technical do users need to be?
OpenBlue Employee is consistently described as the most user-friendly solution on the market, intuitive and easy to learn for both power users and general users.
What makes Johnson Controls a leader?
Verdantix ranks Johnson Controls as a market leader. Our products have been consistently rated as category leaders on user review sites like Capterra, SoftwareAdvice and G2.
How is Johnson Controls unique from its competitors?
Johnson Controls believes we have a unique set of differentiators which leads to a superior experience and long-term customer satisfaction, including ease of use, a modular suite, scalable architecture, seamless integration and configurability.
What software tools and platforms does it integrate with?
A critical component of Johnson Controls’ Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) is the ability to integrate critical enterprise data such as human resources data, accounting information, scheduling data, notifications and more. The Johnson Controls team has deep experience completing hundreds of interfaces/integrations with SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, Banner and a host of others.
Is there a trial or free download available?
Unfortunately no. Due to the depth and breadth of assets needed to properly use our software trial versions are not offered.
What kind of training and education is available?
Johnson Controls provides a variety of training options ranging from instructor-led sessions presented online to on-site custom training classes held at the clients company as well as classroom training at our annual User Conference.
What is the implementation process and timeline?
Johnson Controls provides a proven implementation methodology to meet your business requirements by involving you in all stages of the process. Our methodology includes software-based solution configuration, project management, and knowledge transfer activities created to ensure the smooth implementation of our IWMS software. Our process allows for the application of best practices, based on our experience, weighed with your needs to define a solution that meets your defined requirements and goals for your facilities.
What customer and product support is included?
Standard support falls within normal business hours with additional support option pricing (24x5, etc.) available upon request.

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