CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2015) -  JLL (NYSE: JLL) has announced that the firm's global AiX business intelligence tool for facilities management has been nominated as a finalist for the 2015 H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator's Award. Finalists of this global competition will present their case studies before a panel of senior industry leaders at Harvard University this summer. The winner will be announced in October at CoreNet Global's 2015 Global Summit in Los Angeles, United States.

The finalist nomination recognizes that AiX offers a new way to measure and improve the financial and operational performance of facilities and the facilities management function. One of a number of new JLL technology and business intelligence tools, AiX is designed specifically for facilities management and supports data-driven, real-time decision-making for corporate real estate and C-suite executives. Bringing together facility intelligence and expert analysis, the system helps companies improve efficiencies, cut costs and optimize service levels in their facilities management operations.

"We are honored to be recognized by CoreNet Global for our innovation in the field of business intelligence," said Maureen Ehrenberg, Executive Managing Director of JLL's global Integrated Facilities Management business. "Corporate real estate executives are under more pressure than ever to drive productivity and financial results. New technology that illuminates facilities data is essential to achieving both real estate and enterprise-wide goals."

The innovation in AiX lies in how it applies a consistent methodology for collecting, aggregating, normalizing and analyzing facilities data to produce actionable results for facilities managers. With AiX users can access an industry-leading collection of financial and service delivery data. And with this offers a technology-enabled view into a portfolio's performance, by site, as well as a comparative view into industry peers. Unlike other systems, AiX allows companies to isolate sites and service categories with the highest spend and/or the lowest levels of service within the portfolio, using data from trustworthy and consistent sources.

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About JLL's Facility Management Expertise

JLL's integrated facilities management team works with the world's leading organizations to improve their productivity through the convergence of facility services, technology, and the workplace, creating the employee experience. JLL combines technical expertise, service excellence and business intelligence with an understanding of real estate strategy to provide its clients with a competitive edge in their industry.

A leader in real estate outsourcing, JLL's Corporate Solutions business helps corporations improve productivity in the cost, efficiency and performance of their local or global real estate portfolios by creating outsourcing partnerships to manage and execute a range of corporate real estate services. This service delivery capability helps corporations improve business performance, particularly as companies turn to the outsourcing of their real estate activity as a way to manage expenses and enhance profitability.

About CoreNet Global

CoreNet Global is the world's leading professional association for corporate real estate (CRE) executives with strategic responsibility for the real property used by multinational corporations for their own operations. CoreNet Global's more than 9,500 members, who include 70 percent of the top 100 U.S. companies and nearly half of the Global 2000, meet locally, globally and virtually to develop networks, share knowledge, learn and thrive professionally. For more information, please visit www.corenetglobal.org. 

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About JLL

JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. A Fortune 500 company with annual fee revenue of $4.7 billion and gross revenue of $5.4 billion, JLL has more than 230 corporate offices, operates in 80 countries and has a global workforce of approximately 58,000. On behalf of its clients, the firm provides management and real estate outsourcing services for a property portfolio of 3.4 billion square feet, or 316 million square meters, and completed $118 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions in 2014. Its investment management business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $55.3 billion of real estate assets under management. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit www.jll.com.