2017 – what a year! It was 12 months of milestones and accomplishments for us here at Yardi. We thought we’d take a look back at some of our most popular blog posts to give you a sense of what readers found most interesting in the last year. They included news about awards, product launches, acquisitions and working together to help those in need. The top 10 most-read blog posts of 2017 included: Yardi was been honored with a major award from Glassdoor as one of the top places to work in the U.S., a prestigious award that resulted from positive employee feedback. Earlier in the year, Anant Yardi, founder and CEO, was named to a prestigious list of the nation’s top corporate leaders by Glassdoor. Mr. Yardi received a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award recognizing the Highest Rated CEOs for 2017. Given the two honors above, it’s no wonder that internships at Yardi are a hot commodity. The Yardi internship program offers hands-on work experience, professional development and networking opportunities. On the product side, the amazing team behind Yardi Payment Processing has recently done some magic behind the scenes to add a great new feature to our payment platform. Bill paying was a popular topic in 2017. Another popular product article explained Yardi has developed new technology for vendors that makes processing invoices and payments, uploading insurance certificates and accessing statements, much easier. Team Yardi brought something different to the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) annual tradeshow and convention: Yardi Breeze, refreshingly simple software designed to make work easier for smaller owners, investors and managers. It was a big year for both of our YASC conferences in Washington D.C. and San Diego. The 2017 Spring Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference (YASC) in Washington,...

When Yardi employee Isabella Mitchell read our original story on Yardi Vasti Vikas Prakalp (YVVP), she pondered ways to get involved with health and sanitation efforts in impoverished in Pune, India. Months later, she and her daughter received the opportunity of a lifetime. Isabella’s daughter, Angelina Mitchell, is a registered EMT and pre-med major at Binghamton University.  Angelina wanted to volunteer abroad and felt called to support Vasti Vikas Prakalp as well. When her mother received a work assignment in Pune, Angelina asked to join her on the trip. While Isabella worked, Bharati Kotwal, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Yardi in Pune, helped Angelina find ways to get involved. The college student toured several clinics and hospitals with doctors via YVVP. The doctors serve at special sites that offer care free of charge. Angelina focused on programs that assist women and children. “Dr. Genesh showed me one of the mobile clinics that bring the services to the women and children who are not able to travel. These clinics have a doctor on staff that does free check ups and provides the women of Pune with the appropriate contraceptives. This clinic sees about 50 patients a day, 21 days out of every month,” said Angelina. At District Hospital, Dr. Ashwin leads a unique two-week program to prevent and treat malnourishment. Mothers are educated on proper nutrition for their children. Their malnourished children are simultaneously treated with a soft mixture of natural foods to restore health. The mothers receive a small stipend to offset their time in the program away from their families and work. Poor nutrition and early, frequent motherhood contributes to low iron level in local young women. Angelina learned that a lack of footwear exacerbates malnutrition and anemia. Hookworm infects already vulnerable...

As 2016 comes to a close, we look back in reflection on a successful year. Here are a few of our favorite Yardi moments from 2016: The Balance Sheet, Yardi’s corporate blog, celebrated its fourth anniversary! In February, Yardi launched a new data centre in Dubai to meet the data security and infrastructure needs of a growing client base in the Middle East. Yardi welcomed iMS Immobilien Management System GmbH to the Yardi family! iMS GmbH is a German developer of commercial property management software. CSU Channel Islands and Pacific Coast Business Times honored Yardi Systems and CEO Anant Yardi. Anant Yardi was named Business Leader of the Year by the Business & Technology Partnership at California State University, Channel Islands. Mr. Yardi was also inducted into the Pacific Coast Business Times Business Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to the software industry. Yardi aided displaced Fort McMurray fire evacuees. Mobilizing teams in four different time zones, Yardi created a centralized housing registry connecting local landlords and residents in need of housing. Yardi acquired Proliphix, a leading provider of energy control solutions. We welcomed its clients and staff to the Yardi family! Gordon Morrell was named Executive of the Year at the South Coast Business & Technology Awards. “I’m honored to receive this award, but it really is not for me,” Morrell said. “It is for the entire global team at Yardi. The reason for our success is the exceptional collaboration of everyone at the company, rather than the efforts of one individual.” Yardi won a NREI/IMN Commercial Real Estate Award in recognition of the Yardi®Smart Energy Suite. Multi-Housing News earned Gold for best website at NAREE’s fiftieth conference. In August, we celebrated 5,000 Yardi employees strong worldwide! Yardi released Yardi Genesis2for Affordable Housing. Yardi welcomed two new Marketing Geniuses. Meet Mia...

Yardi, a leading developer of software solutions for the real estate investment, asset and property management industry has opened a new office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Dubai office will be a hub for regional business development, project management, consulting, training and technical support services. Following strong growth and demand for solutions and services across the Middle East, Neal Gemassmer, vice president of Yardi Asia Pacific & Middle East, said: “We have seen tremendous demand by the market for more integrated real estate solutions. This is an exciting phase in Yardi’s development in the region; we have maintained a strong, focused path, driven by our commitment to our clients in the Middle East. This next phase of development will enable us to further broaden and deepen the range of solutions and support services offered locally and across the region.” Visit Yardi.com for more...

The National Apartment Association’s Education Institute Capital Campaign announced a $500,000 contribution from Yardi Systems this week. “Yardi has a strong commitment to the industry and our future work force,” said NAAEI President Bill Wollinger, CAPS, SHCM, President, WinnResidential, Boston. “We thank the entire Yardi team for the confidence they have placed in NAAEI in helping us to achieve the goals of the Institute.” The NAA’s Education Institute is the professional development arm of the association. Goals of the program include increasing awareness of apartment careers, creation and maintenance of a comprehensive managerial development program; providng a recruitment pipeline for the multifamily industry; and advocacy of Skill Standards for Leasing, Maintenance and Management careers. “NAAEI’s continued commitment to education is important to the future of this industry.  It will help us improve professionalism and the quality of service provided to the multifamily industry,” said Anant Yardi, President & CEO, Yardi Systems. “We are pleased to be able to support NAAEI in this quest and pledge our continued support.” The contribution brings Yardi’s total investment in NAAEI to $800,000. The company contributed $300,000 in 2007....

During the last two days at YASC, it’s been a privilege to interact with so many Yardi Systems clients, some who have been with us for multiple decades, and others who are relatively new users of our products. We’ve talked with you about your businesses, your plans, your hopes and dreams for the future, and of course your real estate technology needs. During these conversations, we noticed one consistent theme – a theme that was introduced by our founder and CEO Anant Yardi during his remarks in Wednesday’s General Session. That theme is change. No matter what sector of the property management or investment market your business operates in, change seems to be ubiquitous right now. Our multifamily clients are seeing their businesses grow and thrive with the national resurgence in apartment renting. Our commercial and investment clients are continuing to recover from a down market and adopting bold new business strategies to improve their returns. There is an exciting new market sector comprised of single family home rental portfolios. Our affordable and public housing clients are seeking ways for technology to help them work more efficiently. Senior housing clients are seeing major growth in their market as the Baby Boomers plan for retirement. And our military and student housing providers continue to improve their processes to serve unique resident needs. Across these verticals, everyone is looking for ways that technology can help them be more nimble, mobile, efficient and automated. And there is growing recognition that data collected in your daily operations can help you work smarter when it is collected, organized, and analyzed in near real-time to answer questions and solve problems. During his remarks on Wednesday, Anant Yardi took a look back at the vast changes in technology we’ve all watched...

New and newly upgraded Yardi mobile applications will be front and center this week at YASC SB. When we talk to Yardi clients about ways to improve their real estate-based businesses, and how technology can help, they never fail to mention the desire for new mobile applications that will let employees work more efficiently and businesses run more smoothly. Mobile technology has transformed how we run our personal lives. Shouldn’t it change our businesses, too? Here’s a quick users guide to the various mobile apps now available from Yardi Systems: Leasing Pad – If you are anxious to use Yardi Voyager in a tablet-optimized environment, then Leasing Pad is for you. Users will be able to access contact, lead, lease, resident, and property data in Voyager using Leasing Pad, so leasing agents and managers can work on the go or anywhere on the property using a tablet device.  Leasing Pad also offers the full functionality of the Yardi PopCard CRM, property marketing portals, and online leasing.  Access Voyager dashboards with leasing and operations info, as well as residential analytics, all from your iPad or tablet. Leasing Pad is browser agnostic. Yardi CRM Mobile – During the leasing process, every day a unit sits empty costs you money. Yardi CRM Mobile will help streamline leasing by automating the process. Prospect and customer contact information and history are tracked in Voyager and synced with Outlook throughout the leasing process, from first contact to final signing. Access to crucial data is always within reach when it is on the mobile device that never leaves your side. Lease abstracts can also be run from Yardi CRM Mobile, available for iPhone and iPad. Yardi Inspection Mobile – When you’re in the field inspecting properties, the last thing you want...

This week we are pleased to welcome all of our new readers to the Yardi Systems corporate blog, The Balance Sheet.  This is a place where you will find interesting profiles about our clients and employees, technology news, insight into real estate industry trends, and more. As an industry leading technology companies, Yardi wants to bring you closer to the dynamic personalities and happenings from the world of real estate. You may have heard that property management is boring – we would kindly beg to disagree. Take a look back through some of the stories we’ve shared so far. Yardi clients are a dynamic bunch, changing the world one property or project at a time. And they also have fascinating interests outside of the office. CBL & Associates’ Jody Bankston is an expert on new devices by day, and a CrossFit reality TV show star in his off hours. Dena Xifaras of Preservation of Affordable Housing moved back to her Massachusetts hometown to help working-class residents attain better homes. And Joanne Massey isn’t just a straight shooter as the controller for Fort Worth’s Sundance Square – she competes in Cowboy Silhouette rifle contests on the weekend. A closer look at our Yardi employees also showcases some amazing folks. We’ve highlighted Yardi employees from around the globe, including people like international cricket star and Orion implementation lead Aditya Thyagarajan. From our Toronto office, Vesna Uljarevic came to Canada on a refugee visa after fleeing Sarajevo during the war – she’s now a technical account manager. And Rose Hiebert heads up the Raleigh office’s food drive each year for personal reasons. Before she came to work at Yardi, she struggled financially and had to ask for donations to eat. Find all these stories and many more...