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Moving to a cloud-b\"KimMann\"ased commercial property management and accounting platform typically sounds like a daunting transition. Kim Mann, CPA\/property controller for Kansas City-based Block Real Estate Services LLC<\/a>, makes it sound more like a walk in the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing from self-hosted to hosted was the easiest conversion that I have ever done,\u201d Mann said. \u201cWhen you have change, people tend to get cranky about it. But I didn\u2019t have any push back.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when it came time to flip the switch to the Yardi cloud, the transition was fast and easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI simply sent out the new URL, gave everyone a half day off, and said, do not enter Yardi until tomorrow, and we went back live within 24 hours,\u201d Mann said.<\/p>\n

Block Real Estate Services LLC converted to Voyager 7S in June of 2015, and Mann anticipated that the customizations and intricate property structure set-up would complicate the transition. That turned out not to be the case, an impressive feat considering that her team tracks 700 financial entities using Yardi software.<\/p>\n

Preparing for the change with extensive testing, Mann also enlisted 12 of the company\u2019s Yardi users to become \u201cchampions of the change.\u201d Testing took four weeks, with the entire conversion time frame lasted two months total.<\/p>\n

Both of the transitions \u2013 a cloud-based platform and use of the new Yardi Commercial Suite, have created enhanced efficiencies and time and cost savings for Block Real Estate Services LLC.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing to the cloud freed up a massive server and saved us from having to buy another server, so we did not have to incur that expense. Our IT department loved that,\u201d Mann said.<\/p>\n

Use of the Yardi Commercial Suite has changed the way Block Real Estate Services LLC processes invoices, and while the switch to Yardi\u2019s PAYScan for electronic invoice processing required some major adjustments, the end result has been tremendous employee time savings.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur AP department is seeing a lot of free time. We are actually thinking about how to repurpose part of their work week. That gives us an employee and a half to do something else,\u201d Mann said. \u201cThey can help out in other areas, or they can help me implement new stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

She plans to continue to expand the reach of the Yardi software platform going forward, Mann said at the recent Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy eyes have been opened here. There is so much more that we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about Block Real Estate Services LLC: http:\/\/www.blockllc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about Yardi: http:\/\/www.yardi.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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