April 23, 2012

The impact of the new FASB on Retailers

Lucernex Real Estate Solutions Strategist, Mike Hammerslag, MS(RE), MBA, CPM® (see Mike’s management summary here), discusses the impact the new FASB rules will have on retailers.

Get Ready in 2013 so you can report in 2015

The FASB/IASB Leases Project has gone on, perhaps even dragged on, more than most of us could have expected. Now with the 2nd Exposure Draft (ED), which was originally expected in the 2nd Quarter of 2011, not due until the 2nd half of 2012 one might be lulled in to a false sense of passive inaction. This would be a mistake!
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April 10, 2012

The Benefits of iPads in Real Estate

Real Estate Technology expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses the benefits of Tablet computers in real estate development and management and the impact of Tablets on the retail life cycle.

Can you believe it has only been two years since Apple introduced the first iPad?1

The use of tablet computers has rapidly increased since Apple released the first iPad in 2010. Gartner predicts that almost 119 million Tablets will be sold in 2012 and over 665 million will be in use by 2016.2

This trend is already beginning to impact retail real estate development and that impact will grow dramatically as Tablets become more and more ubiquitous.
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April 10, 2012

Lucernex featured in Software Advice

“A Plain English Guide to Facility & Asset Management Software”

Dallas, TX (March 9, 2012) – In a Software Advice article from March 8th by Ashley Halligan, Joseph Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), President and COO of Lucernex Technologies, discusses the differences between the most common software solutions in the maintenance and facility management markets and the business challenges they address.

Read the article here

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April 2, 2012

The Next Generation of Real Estate Technology

Real Estate Technology expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses the history of retail real estate technology.

I recently wrote a new whitepaper detailing the progression of technology within the corporate real estate industry. The image below provides a summary of that history. This blog focuses on the newest technology, tablet computing, and how it’s already impacting retail real estate productivity.


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