Category: CRE Trends
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Building Engines Integrates with Yardi through Gelbgroup
Building Engines today announced its web-service integration with Yardi Voyager through new partner Gelbgroup Consulting, Inc., a Yardi certified integrator. The advanced integration allows system users to automatically “push” accurate charges (e.g. overtime HVAC bills) directly from Building Engines to their accounting system without delay, rather than sending periodic batches of information between the two…
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32BJ Training Fund Students “Ditch the Books” for Online Software
In an effort to educate members on the technology trends shaping the future of property management and building service workers, SEIU 32BJ Training Fund has announced the addition of a “Running a Building with a Computer” class as part of its 2012-2013 course catalog. The class, offered six times per year and co-taught by a…
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Inside Look: Building Engines Tools for Service Delivery
Peek “under the hood” at the industry’s leading Property Operations Software! Learn how Building Engines clients use the platform’s web-based (and mobile!) tools to improve service delivery, maintenance, and ultimately, NOI.
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Commerce Coverts to New Operations Management System
Commerce Real Estate Solutions today announced the selection of Building Engines to replace a legacy system throughout their entire portfolio. The organization, which manages over four million square feet of commercial, retail and industrial property and is among the top commercial real estate brokerage firms in the Inter-mountain and Pacific Northwest region, wanted to significantly…
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A Pepto-free T-day Tradition: Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving tradition is usually served with an unhealthy heap of glut, recipes involving cans and lard, holiday shopping nervosa, traffic emotions cycling between ennui and road rage, minor football injuries among the aged, and televised flamboyance in the streets of Manhattan. What’s not to love? The one tradition you can partake in free from harm…
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Payback’s a Cinch! The ROI of Mobile
For a business decision maker, return on investment is key to any decision. As attractive the practicality of the technology, it has to work from a financial perspective. In this post, I’ll outline where you’ll see the payback from investing in a mobile property management strategy.
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Learning to Read Good in Building Service Technology
Working for a private company, it is easy to become narrowly focused – focused on the people who buy and use your product. It’s kind of like election goggles. You become focused on solving specific and immediate problems, cutting costs and applying technology to real world situations – things with tangible and foreseeable results. I…
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New Webinar: Preparing for a Mobile Future
Mobile property management is a new business reality. Real estate operations that provide property managers and field personnel with mobile access to applications and data are more productive, deliver better customer service, are better informed, and can respond more nimbly to changes in their operating environment.
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4 Steps to a Proactive Mobile Strategy
In our recent webinar, Preparing for the (Not So Distant) Mobile Future, three panelists discussed what the mobile future holds and how businesses should move forward in light of the changing environment. My main takeaway from the discussion was how mobile strategies are becoming such a pivotal part of organizations, but are often daunting with…
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8 Best Property Management Halloween Costumes
Halloween costumes have long included many professions – policemen, nurses, presidents, etc. But amidst all the cats, pirates and princesses last night, I saw no love for property management. So to help you out for next year, here’s a little inspiration: