US data center developer and provider Compass Datacenters has integrated FieldView's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software with the building management system (BMS) used in the data centers it builds for clients.

The companies said the integrated solution will provide customers with advanced management and monitoring capabilities of both IT and facilities assets. FieldView is offering Compass customers a six-month test drive of its applications at each new Compass facility.

Compass CEO Chris Crosby said the company's DCIM strategy allowed it to work with companies that have compelling data center management applications. “FieldView has an open DCIM strategy that matches our own, which is part of what led to this collaboration and made this partnership make so much sense,” he said.

“FieldView has completed its software integration with our BMS and our customers now have access to FieldView apps that are truly customized to their Compass facility rather than just generic templates.”

The BMS software Compass provides generates use and status information of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure. The software, according to the company, was designed as an open platform that can support and integrate with DCIM tools like FieldView's.

FieldView provides a monitoring, management and alerting platform which integrates mulitple vendors’ solutions and protocols into one single-pane-of-glass view, including branch circuit monitoring, thermal mapping (environmental monitoring), trending (such as power usage), performance management, capacity planning and business intelligence. It can do this for either a single location or for multiple locations distributed globally.