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August was about making scale easier. As portfolios grow, operational complexity grows with them.
More maintenance work needs to be managed. More portfolio data needs to be understood. And energy, financial, and sustainability teams need clearer ways to turn increasingly complex information into decisions.
August introduces a set of KODE OS enhancements designed to make that easier—helping teams manage work more reliably at scale, identify where attention is needed, and turn energy and operational data into insights they can trust and use.
Here’s what shipped, grouped around the outcomes it delivers.
EnerG is strengthening the foundation behind portfolio performance analysis with Enhanced Baselines and Normalized Performance.
Teams can define consistent baseline periods, assess whether buildings and service types have sufficient data, normalize eligible performance for factors such as weather, and understand why individual models pass or fail before normalized results are published.
Approved normalized data can then be used consistently across EnerG KPIs, portfolio rankings, benchmarking, dashboards, exports, and BI rather than creating conflicting views of performance.
What It Matters
Raw consumption doesn’t always tell the whole story.
Weather and changing building conditions can make a property appear to improve or deteriorate even when operations haven’t materially changed. A governed normalization workflow gives energy teams a more meaningful way to compare performance and explain the results.
AssetOps now gives regional and portfolio teams a faster way to identify where maintenance backlogs are forming.
A new Region filter and Overdue Only view work across the Operations Dashboard, Work Orders, and Schedules, allowing teams to scope metrics and work lists to specific regions and immediately isolate overdue activity.
Historical trends also give leadership greater visibility into work volume, completion rates, planned work, and average time to close.
What It Matters
That makes it easier to prioritize resources, identify emerging SLA risks, and intervene before a backlog becomes a larger operational problem.
What’s falling behind, and where?
That makes it easier to prioritize resources, identify emerging SLA risks, and intervene before a backlog becomes a larger operational problem.
Bulk actions are only valuable when teams can trust them at scale.
AssetOps is introducing a new batch-processing framework that evaluates bulk updates item by item. If one record cannot be processed, valid items can continue rather than causing the entire operation to fail.
The new architecture expands bulk capabilities across work orders, schedules, task templates, and assets.
For example, teams can bulk-complete or update work orders, change schedule settings across multiple records, and remove unnecessary task templates without repeating the same action individually.
A centralized seven-day history shows who initiated each batch, how many records succeeded or failed, and allows users to export error information for items requiring attention.
What It Matters
Large operational changes no longer have to be all-or-nothing.
Teams can move through high-volume administrative work faster, isolate problems when they occur, and spend less time repeating successful updates because a single record failed.
August brings one of the most substantial sets of EnerG enhancements yet, expanding the platform across budgeting, utility rates, normalization, data uploads, exports, and reporting.
EnerG budgeting is expanding from a primarily building-level workflow into a more complete portfolio management experience.
The new Portfolio Budget Overview brings budget, actual spend, variance, accruals, and status together across selected buildings while allowing teams to analyze performance by utility service.
Building-level dashboards also break performance down by electric, gas, water, steam, and other configured utilities.
What It Matters
Teams can move beyond simply knowing that a portfolio is over or under budget.
They can identify which buildings are off track, which services are responsible, and what underlying budget or accrual values are contributing to the result.
Consolidated exports further eliminate the need to download and manually merge separate budget files.
AA new Blended Rate Analysis experience helps teams understand the effective rate they’re paying for each utility and how that rate is changing over time.
Monthly blended rates are shown alongside a trailing twelve-month rate trend, with comparisons to the previous month and prior year.
Users can analyze each service type independently and reference historical monthly rates for validation and comparison.
What It Matters
When utility costs rise, consumption isn’t necessarily the reason.
Blended Rate Analysis helps teams distinguish changes in effective utility pricing from changes in usage, giving energy and finance teams greater context around cost movement, budgeting, procurement, and future rate analysis.
EnerG’s CSV upload workflow now provides more guidance before data enters the platform and greater transparency once processing begins.
Official templates, field references, column mapping, processing statuses, and row-level error information help users understand exactly what a file requires and whether every record was processed successfully.
What It Matters
Historical utility data shouldn’t require trial and error to upload correctly.
Clearer requirements and precise error feedback reduce failed imports, manual troubleshooting, and uncertainty around whether an uploaded dataset is actually complete.
Export capabilities are expanding across EnerG dashboards, charts, tables, emissions, budgets, and certifications.
Supported views now provide page-level Excel exports that reflect the filters, reporting period, service types, and portfolio or building scope already selected on screen.
That includes:
Why It Matters
The information teams use inside EnerG becomes easier to validate, analyze, share, and incorporate into existing reporting workflows.
For sustainability teams, that means easier access to emissions data for disclosures and audit support. For finance teams, it removes manual file consolidation. And across the board, it makes the data behind EnerG’s visualizations more accessible.
August also expands KODE OS connectivity across building automation, power monitoring, access control, metering, and workplace systems.
APEX — Metering
Bring additional meter data into KODE OS for centralized monitoring and analysis.
Datawatch— Access Control
Connect access events, transactions, and cardholder metadata with the broader building and portfolio environment.
Google Calendar — Workplace
Bring calendar information into the connected workplace ecosystem.
2N Access Commander — Access Control & Security
Connect doors, readers, zones, credentials, visitors, and real-time security events.
Johnson Controls Metasys — Building Automation
Bring data from Metasys building automation systems into the KODE OS operational layer.
Schneider Electric Power Monitoring Expert — Power & Energy
Expand centralized access to electrical and power monitoring information through PME.
As more building, workplace, access, energy, and maintenance systems become part of the same data environment, teams gain more context for reporting, analytics, automation, and increasingly intelligent operational workflows.
→ Read the August Integrations Drop for the complete breakdown.
August’s releases reinforce a simple idea:
Portfolio complexity should create better insight, not more administrative work.
Maintenance teams can process high-volume updates more reliably and quickly identify where overdue work is concentrated.
Energy teams can build more meaningful performance baselines, understand budget and utility-rate movement, bring historical data into the platform with greater confidence, and move more of that information into the reporting workflows they already use.
And new integrations continue expanding the operational context available within KODE OS.
The result is an operating environment designed to make increasingly complex portfolios easier to understand and manage.
August was about making complexity easier to manage.
Across maintenance, energy intelligence, reporting, and connectivity, this month’s releases give portfolio teams better ways to understand what’s happening, focus attention where it matters, and work confidently at scale.
More buildings. More data. Clearer decisions across all of it.
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