Yardi Year in Review: Part Two

A look back at 2013, continued

By Leah Etling on Dec 27, 2013 in News

Welcome back. Over the course of 2013, we featured many exciting milestones for Yardi here on The Balance Sheet. It was a year of strong growth for many of our clients, and Yardi’s products evolved to help support their goals and plans in the world of real estate.

Here’s a look at some of the stories we featured that you might not want to miss.

Find the highlights from January to June, published yesterday, right here.

July

Realcomm announced the winners of the 2013 Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation Awards (AKA the “Digies”), including an award for Best Real Estate Technology Innovation, which was won by Yardi’s Commercial Leasing Pad.

Yardi acquired Pierce-Eislen, a real estate research and reporting firm focusing on the multi-family industry.

Teams from Yardi’s Pune, India office, selected a local non-profit organization to benefit from their  collaborative volunteer efforts.

Dennis Shelly retired from Yardi after serving as a shipping assistant in the Santa Barbara office for eight years. In his free time he mentored at-risk kids.

REALTORS® and Multiple Listing Services expressed concern about the practice of “scraping” exercised by some listing aggregators. Point2 took a stand.

August

Additional options for credit screening, including a new solution being offered by Yardi Resident Screening, help address the issue of potential renters who lack credit scores.

September

Yardi Atlanta moved to a new, “greener” home. Mansell Overlook, the new location, received LEED Gold for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance.

When Saul Klein realized the incredible potential that the Internet held to change the business of real estate, he was way out ahead of a forthcoming revolution. Today, he’s a widely renowned industry expert and part of the Yardi team.

Top-rated teachers from our bi-annual YASC conference offered their advice about which classes to take at the event. Their timeless insight is valuable for any future YASC attendee.

October

We released a new version of our flagship product that is browser and device agnostic, generating great excitement from clients and prospects industry-wide. Yardi Voyager 7S is here.

Kicking off Fall YASC 2013, Yardi Systems founder and CEO Anant Yardi addressed to 1,450 Yardi clients about the future of technology and the habits of the multifamily industry’s newest renters.

For more than a decade, Yardi has provided the software platform that powers the New York State’s Metropolitan Transit Authority Real Estate Department’s  financial record-keeping and reporting services.

The Walk-in Payment System (WIPS™), available as part of Yardi Payment Processing™, was introduced as a solution alternative to accepting cash and money orders.

Yardi and WhiteFence integrated their platforms so that renters have an easier renting and moving experience than ever before.

November

Did you know that Yardi’s flagship system, Yardi Voyager^®, is also the software of choice for a ground-breaking shopping center in Abu Dhabi, Dubai?

Yardi COO Gordon Morrell was featured on a UC Santa Barbara blog for his exemplary accomplishments as an alumni of the university.

Using Yardi’s RentCafe end-to-end marketing and leasing solution, Tarragon has been able to offer online leasing, responsive marketing websites, marketer and children’s book illustrator Jane Griffith told us.

Yardi Voyager is used by companies and agencies around the world. But a training session for Yardi’s flagship product had probably never been delivered in American Sign Language (ASL) until 2013.

Natural disasters both abroad and at home were devastating for the Philippines – where Typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 6,000 people – and in Illinois, where tornadoes destroyed more than 400 homes. Yardi has a long track record of providing financial assistance to disaster victims, and that tradition continued.

December

Each year, Yardi’s customer support team – better known as CSD – celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of its many associates with help from clients. We recognized them, too.

Yardi eLearning™ is the gateway to hundreds of company-sponsored online training classes for two clients that are already using the new product to streamline their training efforts.

Over the past five months, more than 500 Yardi Voyager^® clients—with the number growing daily—have adopted the browser-agnostic, mobile-enabled Yardi Voyager^® 7S.

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Wow, what a year! We can’t wait to see what 2014 will bring. Wishing you a safe and happy new year, and the best of everything in the year to come.