Digie Awards

Honor for Voyager 7S

By Leah Etling on Jul 3, 2014 in News

Realcomm recently announced the winners of the 2014 Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation Awards (AKA the “Digies”), including an award for Best Real Estate Technology Innovation, which was won by Yardi Voyager 7S.

The latest and most advanced version of Voyager, Yardi’s flagship property management and accounting software, is used by thousands of clients to manage millions of apartments, commercial rentals and other property around the world, was lauded for:

• Comprehensive ERP incorporating both front and back office
• Extensive cloud-based architecture
• Incorporates comprehensive suite of mobile applications

Yardi Voyager 7S works with all Internet browsers and is tablet compatible.

In the following video, Rob Teel, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions, talks about integrating the front and back office with the power of Voyager 7S.

Teel, who accepted the award for Yardi at Realcomm’s recent conference, commented:

“We are thrilled to be recognized by Realcomm for our innovation with Voyager 7S.    We live in a mobile world, and it was really important to our clients that our flagship Voyager product line be available on the go through tablets and multiple Web browsers.   We would also like to congratulate the 1,000+ clients that have already upgraded to Voyager 7S.”

In addition to Yardi’s Digie Award, a number of clients were also recognized at Realcomm and IBCon for exemplary accomplishments involving use of technology, automation and innovation.

They included:

Best Use of Automation – Commercial Services
CBRE – Los Angeles Office

• Development of leading-edge open space design concept
• Digitization of all documents to enable mobile environment
• Collaborated with Google to create Liquid Galaxy experience

Best Use of Automation – Property Management
Arcadia Management Group

• Highly automated tenant maintenance, mobile inspections and procure to pay
• Consistent willingness to take risks with new technologies
• Commitment to educate and share knowledge and experience with the industry

Most Intelligent Building Projects – Office Portfolio
Detroit Portfolio – Bedrock

• Developed a comprehensive portfolio-wide smart building strategy
• Integrated an extraordinary number of disparate systems
• Willingness to share successes and failures with the industry

Best Use of Automation – Real Estate Investment Management
Deutsche Bank Wealth & Asset Management

• Created a comprehensive integrated platform for investment management
• Demonstrates strong project management and execution of large-scale technology implementations
• Continual improvement and automation of complex business processes

Best Use of Automation – Retail
KIMCO Realty

• Development of advanced leasing, budgeting/forecasting and business intelligence applications
• Continual willingness to interact with peers and take leadership role
• Implemented advanced web-enabled lighting solution

Most Intelligent Building Projects – Office Building
Pennzoil Place – Transwestern

• Developed complete and comprehensive vision for a smart building
• Design concept blended a balanced integration of both IT and BAS
• Created a revenue stream by selling broadband back to tenants

Most Intelligent Building Projects – Retail
Taubman

• Implementation of broadband network throughout retail mall portfolio
• Continually striving to find new and innovative ways to enhance the customer experience
• Created new revenue stream by providing broadband services to tenants

Realcomm has been awarding Digie honors since 1999. Yardi has earned many of the awards, including one in 2013 – also for Digital Technology Innovation –  for Yardi Leasing Pad, the mobile leasing application.

For a full list of the 2014 award winners, see: http://realcomm.com/advisory/advisory.asp?AdvisoryID=643

Congratulations to all of the honorees!