February 10, 2010
Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) provides a start to the conversation.
The term “Integrated Workplace Management Systems” or “IWMS” was coined by Michael Bell formerly of The Gartner Group. This new term was then used as the basis for producing an IWMS market assessment including a Gartner Magic Quadrant. This type of assessment is commonly produced by Gartner to compare technology vendors in many industries. Without a common term, in this case IWMS, there would have been no way to ‘lump’ a bunch of vendors together into a comparison document. In reality, at the time the term was coined, the vendors thrown into the IWMS bucket were very dissimilar and often addressed very different markets. Since then, however, using the IWMS blueprint provided in the IWMS market analysis containing the Magic Quadrant, the vendors have actually enhanced their products, changed messaging and in some cases merged to better fit the image of “IWMS”. While features of the vendors have grown more similar, they remain different in some very important ways, most notably their expertise in specific customer bases and specific functionality that addresses that base.
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Tags: Accruent, amtdirect, BIG, Bricsnet, commercial real estate blog, commercial real estate software, enterprise location management, FM Systems, Gartner, Integrated Workplace Management systems, IWMS, IWMS Definition, location management, location management software, Magic Quadrant, Manhattan, Planon, Qube, real estate blog, Siterra, Tririga, what is iwms :: 14 Comments »
February 5, 2010
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.
Tags: Accruent, Accruent IWMS, Accruent SLIM, Accruent SLM, commercial real estate blog, enterprise location management, integrated workplace management, IWMS, Lease Administration software, location management software, location performance management, NFG SLIM, real estate blog, SLIM :: No Comments »
December 31, 2009
Lucernex expert and President Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here) discusses the use of social media in the real estate industry.
It will probably surprise you as much as it did me when you learn that real estate professionals are the number one user of social media for finding business resources (www.business.com/info/business-social-media-benchmark-study). So what are real estate professionals using social media for and which sites are they using most. The study linked above will tell you that the most common social media use is attending webinars and watching podcasts. A bit more research shows that there are thousands of real estate professionals on the major social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and even Twitter. While these tools are useful for finding out a little about a person and for providing contact information, other real estate professionals are setting themselves apart by creating Blogs and other web resources to provide industry information that many will benefit from. For example The Tenant Advisor: http://www.coydavidson.com/ is a good example of how a single house can use social media to provide information about their market while promoting themselves. The writer also recently provided “scores” for the effectiveness of social media for his business.
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Tags: commerical real estate, Jim Duport, Ken Brown, Mike Nuzum, real estate blog, real estate broker, real estate social media, real estate software, social media in real estate :: No Comments »
