Category: CRE Trends
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In With The New And Not So Out With The Old
When it comes to technology, most people fall into one of two camps: Either they hate it and shy away from change and advancement, or they love it, and they are always first in line for the upgrade or latest and greatest. Personally, I try to walk the middle road and find a balance somewhere…
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Managing Workflow in Real Estate Operations
We are all suffering from symptoms of information overload. The daily onslaught of more and more data means that some of it will inevitably fall through the cracks. You may file away 25 e-mails one day, and overlook ten other important ones. You may communicate important preventive maintenance data within one building and neglect the…
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Why Care About Efficiency?
Much of the value we promise to deliver with our products and services revolves around the concept of helping our clients become “more efficient.” It’s a phrase we use liberally, but what does it mean and where is the real benefit to any organization? Property or facility managers and their staffs need to manage and…
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Integrated & Innovative Solutions for Enhancing Building Security
Integrated & Innovative Solutions for Enhancing Building Security Date/Time: Tuesday, June 1 at 1:00pm EST Presenters: Brian Matthews & Dave Charles, Lenel Register Now! Interested in learning how to improve security and simultaneously reduce costs? Now, more than ever, the economic climate dictates that security sytems need to be reliable, scalable and completely integrated with…
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Reach for the Sun- Create a Building Identity
The economy’s health is returning and, like young leaves in springtime, new jobs are beginning to bud. Yet, the recovering economy is not in steady bloom. The detritus of a long and blustery economic winter litters the real estate topography, shadowing the sun of increased demand. The recovery has its good days and its bad…
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Revenue Wreck-ognition – How a Tax Rule Killed a SaaS Deal
In the arcane world of tax law, there is an ogre of a rule that has choked a few deals to death. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of Position 97-2 (“SOP 97-2”) provides that a company cannot report revenue as realized (earned) until it delivers the product or service. In the SaaS…
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Enhanced Building Security Risk Begins With Better Data Collection
Marianna Perry of the National Crime Prevention Institute at the University of Louisville has a solid article in Buildings Magazine this month about Proactive vs. Reactive Security. The premise of her position is that business owners need to change the way they think about security (the proactive part) and do a better job of connecting…
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One Man’s Rant on Automated Phone Systems – Video
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Conservation of Value in Real Estate Technology
In real estate technology, the law of conservation of value is simple. Like matter, value is neither created nor destroyed. Valuable solutions to difficult real estate management problems such as chronic outages, unbalanced staffing, low NOI and high energy cost all exist. Divining those solutions – bringing them to light and presenting them in an…
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Benchmarking Your Way To The Top
We have talked a lot about the need to perform and be better. After all, do any of us really aspire to do the same thing day after day; performing our jobs in rote fashion without conscious thought? If so, we are destined to deliver the same results. And there is one thing for certain,…