Surface Tablet
Earlier this month, Microsoft pulled an Apple move and debuted its new Surface tablet to a hushed crowd of tech media bigwigs. It had all the hallmarks of a classic Steve Jobs production: a rented out art studio space, regal staging, and fanfare designed to shock & ahhh. This aggressive cribbing from the productions that […]
07 / 02 / 12
Jo Marie Ziegler
You never know where life’s journey will take you. Jo Marie Ziegler didn’t start life as a Michigan resident or envision a career in the property management industry, but that’s where she ended up. In 1990, Jo Marie and her husband, Amos, moved to the Great Lake State so he could study at Michigan State […]
06 / 28 / 12
Digie Award for Orion
Yardi Orion™ for SharePoint®has earned a prestigious industry honor from Realcomm for Real Estate Technology Innovation. The Digital Innovation Award (Digie) recognizes Orion’s significant contribution to automation of real estate business intelligence, document management and portals. Released earlier this year, Orion is currently being implemented by numerous Yardi clients, who are thrilled with its ease […]
06 / 28 / 12
Mobility & CRM
With a commitment to deliver the most relevant, up-to-date insight and technology available for the commercial real estate industry, Realcomm attendees typically seize the chance to investigate the latest tools. With over 100 vendors, searching for a product with the breadth and footprint to fit your business was a top priority for many attendees at […]
06 / 19 / 12
A Look Into iOS 6
Your favorite Apple devices – the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2, third-generation iPad, and the fourth-generation iPod touch – get a makeover with the new iOS 6 upgrade that will be rolled out this fall. The announcement, made during the keynote speech to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, went into some detail […]
06 / 18 / 12
200 Years of Homes
Our friends at Property Shark have put together a great slideshow that displays homes built over the last 200 years in New York City’s Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. Unless you happen to live in a particularly old and historic part of the U.S., it might be hard to find a home more than 100 […]
06 / 13 / 12
Stamping out Smoking
Last week we told you about the growing national trend of apartment communities that are prohibiting smoking altogether, rather than limiting smokers to certain apartments, and have been backed up by legislation in some states that OKs the restrictions. This month, Yardi client The Towbes Group of Santa Barbara, which has multifamily and commercial properties […]
06 / 11 / 12
Canadian Real Estate
Point2 will assist Canadian real estate agents and home buyers with online listing information, thanks to a new agreement with the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) that provides online syndication rights for all Canadian property listings. Canada has taken greater control over online property information than the U.S., and the syndication will allow for much […]
05 / 31 / 12
YASC 2012 Recap
What closing thoughts can we leave you with regarding YASC DC 2012? It’s tough to summarize two and a half days of insight, instruction and all the energy, enthusiasm and good times that came along with it (kudos to all those dancers who joined Cirque USA on stage last night!). But that’s the task I’m […]
05 / 25 / 12
Solid State Drives
Is the era of magnetic storage is coming to an end? Those of a certain age will remember a time when cassette tapes were used to store data – please do not raise your hands, we see the gray hair and we know who you are. Those of a slightly less certain age will remember […]
05 / 24 / 12
Faces of YASC
After a busy day of training and networking for the nearly 1000 attendees at YASC DC 2012, it was time to relax and socialize a bit at the Washington Hilton on Tuesday night. Attendees enjoyed a buffet of delicious food, cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks, and the company of their fellow YASC attendees. Many chatted and […]
05 / 23 / 12
Isabella Mitchell
Isabella Mitchell’s outlook on life is simple: One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, or how much was in my bank account, but the world may be a little better because I was important to a child. But it’s not […]
05 / 22 / 12
Tabletop Computing
Has it really already been two years since Microsoft debuted their innovative Surface tabletop computer? That’s a trick question – it’s actually been five years, a veritable eternity in the lifetime of any consumer computing product. Surface was supposed to be the first shot of a revolution in business and game computing, the vanguard of […]
05 / 17 / 12
Yardi Acquires MSG
Yardi Systems announced today that it has acquired ista North America’s Multifamily Services Group (MSG), a company that provides utility metering, billing, and management for multifamily, military and manufactured properties. With the acquisition of ista MSG, Yardi will become one of the largest providers of energy management services in the U.S., serving more than 700,000 […]
05 / 17 / 12
MHN, CPE Now Digital-Only
Two publications that deliver news and insight about the multifamily and commercial sectors of the real estate industry, Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive, are moving to an online-only content distribution model. “We determined that the resources associated with printing and delivering are better allocated to giving our readers the absolute best content in the […]
05 / 16 / 12
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