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Benchmarking sustainability to drive value to your assets

“Green” building certifications are an important factor in asset valuation and Class A office space classification. Gone are the days when being a sustainable company served only as a marketing tool. Instead, guaranteeing the efficiency of your comme…

MRI Software wins Stevie® Award for second year in a row

MRI Software has won a silver Stevie® Award in the Large Computer Software Company of the Year category at the 16th Annual International Business Awards®! For the second year in a row, MRI Software is featured among a prestigious list of winners, and…

3 reasons why you need a real estate specific analytics tool

When it comes to business intelligence tools for real estate, you can’t afford to bend over backwards dealing with a solution that doesn’t work for your specific needs, but you also can’t spend too much time or money dealing with a real estate analyt…

MRI Software wins Aetna award for Workplace Well-Being

As MRI Software employees will tell you, we like to call ourselves the “MRI family” because of how we take care of one another. No one person at our organization can do their job without the others, and so it is vitally important for us to look out f…

5 ways real estate firms fail at business intelligence

Real estate firms know that there’s an excessive amount of data out there that can be harnessed to their advantage. With this data comes the potential to yield insights that will guide the strategy of the business and increase competitive advantage. …

To public housing and beyond…

Nearly one year ago, MRI presented a vision for the future of public and affordable housing at our users conference in Atlanta. We vowed to create web-enabled software with a world-class user experience to meet the needs of the often-overlooked publi…

Reporting, dashboards and analytics, oh my!

Like the best authors who create pictures and stoke our emotions with the turn of a phrase, the best data can show us how the fabric of business is woven together. Using the entry points of reporting, dashboards, and analytics, real estate profession…

Salesforce and Tableau: Shaking up the software space

This week, an earthquake rattled Cleveland, Ohio. Around the same time, Salesforce announced that it was buying Tableau Software. The earthquake was short-lived with minimal aftershocks, but the impact of the latest big acquisition by Salesforce will…