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Retail Technology

Developing financially successful retail centers is a challenging task anywhere in the world.  Investors and managers involved in retail assets must be sound strategic planners who can successfully assimilate a number of disparate factors, such as demographics, macro and micro economics, as well as cultural and political circumstances.  Rising e-commerce makes a competitive business environment […]

01 / 02 / 17

Tips for Tips

Editor’s note: The following piece and accompanying graphics are re-published with permission from Home Energy Magazine. Behavioral recommendations, or tips, are an integral piece of many energy efficiency programs, ranging from marketing materials (e.g., brochures) to in-home audits, to Home and Business Energy Reports (such as the report shown below). Though information is known to […]

12 / 30 / 16

Affordability Crisis

While the ghosts of the last decade’s housing crisis have (mostly) been put to rest, for many families priced out of their local markets the need for affordable housing remains strong. Like the PC’s infamous “blue screen of death,” the Urban Institute’s map of affordable housing inventory is terrifying to behold. A handful of dark blue swatches in […]

12 / 29 / 16

SOHARA

Rekha Rao, Co-Founder of SOHARA, was born and raised in India. She grew up surrounded by the country’s rich heritage of visual arts, classical music and dance, all of which shaped her perspectives and values and an ongoing involvement in the cultural arts. It’s a time in her life that she remembers fondly. Rao relocated to […]

12 / 28 / 16

Yardi Honored

Insights Success magazine recently named Yardi one of the “10 Fastest Growing Cloud Solution Provider Companies.” Insights Success focuses its coverage on emerging and quickly growing companies and their leadership. The honor capped year of esteemed recognition for Yardi’s continued service to clients and constant growth, “Yardi Systems is leveraging cloud technology to enhance both […]

12 / 27 / 16

2016 Recap

As 2016 comes to a close, we look back in reflection on a successful year. Here are a few of our favorite Yardi moments from 2016: The Balance Sheet, Yardi’s corporate blog, celebrated its fourth anniversary! In February, Yardi launched a new data centre in Dubai to meet the data security and infrastructure needs of a growing […]

12 / 27 / 16

Li-Fi

Wi-Fi revolutionized the way we connect to the internet, but it’s not without flaws. Researchers have been busy looking for new kinds of technologies that could offer more reliable alternatives. One is called Li-Fi (Light Fidelity). Back in 2011, a group of scientists led by Professor Harald Haas from Edinburgh University in Scotland introduced the […]

12 / 23 / 16

Farris Haj

When Farris Haj moved to Santa Barbara from Israel in 1984, he wasn’t sure what the future might hold. But he had heard from his cousin, who was living in Santa Barbara at the time, that it was a beautiful coastal city with warm people and strong educational opportunities. At age 18, Farris decided to […]

12 / 22 / 16

360 Video

Architecture is one of the great powers to enhance our lives, but it boasts some serious communication issues. Designers, even though they mean well, may present homeowners with tough to understand drawings, or renderings that don’t really reflect how to navigate a finished room. As a consequence, homeowners end up paying for space without knowing […]

12 / 21 / 16

Sin City Streetlights

Hurricane Sandy is a terrifying memory, but out of its darkness, plenty of luminous people came out with innovative ideas meant for a better world. One such company is the New York-based clean tech start-up EnGoPLANET. They signed a partnership with the city of Las Vegas and installed their solar-kinetic streetlights solution at Boulder Plaza […]

12 / 20 / 16

Renewable Power

After signing its first agreement to purchase all the electricity from a 114-megawatt wind farm in Iowa in 2010, Google set the target to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy only two years later. According to one of the company’s latest blog posts on the initiative, the said target will be reached in 2017, […]

12 / 19 / 16

Dementia Tags

As a dementia crisis looms, one Japanese city has ditched GPS locators and other wearable devices in favor of low-tech stickers for tracking elderly patients.

Domestic Violence Solutions Santa Barbara

Breaking the Cycle

Many Americans are unaware of the prevalence of domestic violence in our communities. Domestic Violence Solutions (DVS) strives to educate the public while creating a pathway of hope for those who experience domestic abuse firsthand. DVS is Santa Barbara County’s only full-service domestic violence agency, committed to ending the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence through […]

12 / 16 / 16

Atlanta’s Geezer Squad

In one Atlanta senior care facility, residents keep IT support in-house, thanks to the Geezer Squad. Tech hiccups can fell even the most tech savvy amongst us. For senior citizens, reboots and restarts are difficult to navigate. While sometimes a wayward grandchild can be corralled into providing IT support, not everyone has access to a […]

Westbrook Mgmt

Maintaining a family-oriented company culture does mean limiting corporate growth. Westbrook Management of Milwaukee maintains the balance with Yardi Voyager. Westbrook Management supervises about 2,000 units, including 450 units of affordable housing. Anthony Franda joined Westbrook Management four years ago to serve as the Controller and CFO of the small organization. He quickly embraced the […]

12 / 14 / 16