April 12, 2010

Why a single platform IWMS beats “best of breed”

Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) discusses how integrated sales prediction modeling improves an IWMS.

There are many vendors of real estate software to choose from today. There are vendors that provide individual solutions for mapping and GIS technology, modeling technology, transaction management, site selection and project management technology and there are several vendors that provide individual applications for facility management and maintenance technology. Firms possessing multiple locations can choose to buy one application at a time selecting the “best of breed” to meet each major set of requirements. For example, it is very common for the construction department of multi-location firms to buy a construction project management system purely to meet that very specific need while the real estate department might choose a lease administration solution and a mapping solution and the facilities group selects capital projects and facilities maintenance applications. The groups buy based on a singularly focused set of requirements pay a fair price and implement their technology.
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March 22, 2010

Why integrated Lease Analysis improves an IWMS

Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) discusses how integrated lease analysis improves an IWMS.

It is a big step for many companies to implement an IWMS and to simply establish a single source of all location data. It can advance a companies effectiveness substantially with that first step of IWMS use. Once this has been done successfully though, users of IWMS systems start to come up with ideas of how the system can be used to further improve their internal processes and evaluate success. By having all the data in one place, hopefully organized by location, users can begin to apply decision tools to make better decisions.
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March 1, 2010

IWMS? It’s Location! Location! Location!

Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) provides details of why Location is the key to Real Estate Technology.

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My last blog discussed the very loose definition of IWMS and how it tries to describe a wide array of very different vendors. In this blog I will discuss one type of IWMS, Location Management Software, and what the different end users may need to focus on when selecting a Location Management IWMS.

What are the three things that matter in real estate – Location, Location, Location. This old adage about real estate applies to commercial real estate technology as well. The location is what real estate is all about whether you are a 2000 store retailer, a 30 building corporation, a large hotel company or a multi-building campus – everything you do in relation to your real estate is based on a location. And, managing the performance of each location to perform optimally is the ultimate goal for each location whether it’s optimizing revenue or minimizing cost.
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February 5, 2010

Accruent Upgrade Program

Replace Accruent SLM, IWMS, SLIM, REM with Lx IWMS

Accruent’s Store Lifecycle Management (SLM) product sold to dozens of retailer and corporate users since 2004 came about due to a license sold to Accruent by Lucernex in 2003 allowing Accruent to market the Lucernex IWMS solution under the Accruent name. The core of the Accruent solution remains, in large part, the 3.81 version of Lx IWMS. Lucernex has since updated the location performance management software and is now at version 7.0 having made vast improvements in the capability. The former creator of SLIM, Ken Brown, is now in charge of Lucernex product design and development after selling the SLIM product and his company, National Facilities Group, to Accruent in 2003. As a result Lucernex can provide the smoothest transition for current Accruent clients.

No first year software cost!!

To make this easy to budget, Lucernex will convert any Accruent client to Lx IWMS and charge no first year fee for the software. In addition, as a conversion from Accruent is really more of a simple upgrade into the newer version of Lucernex, our professional services team will charge a simple cost plus 20% for the project.

No one can convert you from Accruent faster, cheaper or more accurately than Lucernex!

Please use our Product Information page if you are interested in talking to an Lucernex representative about our Accruent upgrade.

January 28, 2010

The importance of transparency in real estate decision-making

Is data transparency intangible in real estate project management? Many consider transparency to be immeasurable and therefore not valid in an ROI analysis.

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Lucernex expert Mike Nuzum (see Mike’s management summary here) provides this response:

During the time I was in the retail business we developed many ways to compress the time it took to complete critical project tasks; whether it was to get a store open faster, get leases signed faster or implement a multi-store remodel capital project quicker. (NSCB3GKUGAMP)

One process we developed enabled us to open new stores in just 3 days.

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