Category: CRE Trends

  • Publish or Perish: Social Media Musts for CRE Professionals

    Social media has become a powerful tool for professionals in the real estate industry. Here’s how property managers and building owners are using various social platforms to reinforce their brand and stand out amongst the competition.

  • Upcoming Webinar: Real Estate in the Cloud

    In this exclusive presentation, Tommy Russo, Chief Technology Officer of Akridge, will share how to bring your business online to retain tenants, decrease costs and reduce equipment downtime!

  • SaaS- the Model You Want to be Set up With

    SaaS is not as cheeky as it sounds, but it is a brazen model for software distribution. Technical talk surrounding Software as a Service and connected terms such as the “Cloud,” can easily become, well, cloudy. So here are the top things you should know about SaaS:

  • Google Leading by a Googol in the Smartphone Market

    In recent months, Google Android has expanded its reign over the US smartphone market to 40.1%, according to a MarketingProfs article.

  • BEI Adds Enriched Tools for Managing Equipment and Capital Assets

    Building Engines announced the release of new tools for managing building equipment and capital assets more efficiently. The new features empower building owners and managers to search, track, report and act on equipment related data, helping them address maintenance problems and improve capital planning and expense forecasting.

  • Don’t get Caught Growing Roots!

    Are you still using excel spreadsheets to manage operations? Are you running breakdown maintenance instead of proactive maintenance?   When was the last time you took a good, hard look at service response times?  These are just some of the indicators that your operations have started to grow roots. And left unattended, these roots will spread…

  • Real Estate in the Cloud

    In today’s fast-paced world, people need information as soon as possible. If a problem arises, it needs to be alleviated immediately-or avoided completely. Buildings need to be able to respond to tenant needs as quickly as possible, as well as keep the building running smoothly so no issues pop up. The answer? The cloud. Simply…

  • How Do You Retain Experience & Knowledge?

    You learn plenty of lessons in life if you’re fortunate to stick around long enough.  One of those lessons is that there is often no replacement for the value of experience and the accumulated knowledge that comes along with it. I was reminded of that today by a line and key plot element description in…

  • Ignorance is Bliss

    Personally, I prefer to have full visibility into my endeavors rather than marching blindly through life.  Learning facts or information that you don’t want to know may not always be pleasant, but at least it gives you the opportunity to get ahead of the problem and address it head on before it becomes a crisis.…

  • The Keys to Enterprise Level Software Acceptance

    You start a return on investment (ROI) analysis with your friendly software vendor.  Exploring every recess of the application, you map it to your business processes, and analyze the relative cost and return it will have on multiple business units.  You discount the resulting values, which, when adjusted, demonstrate that your organization will experience a…