FIS helps companies better manage their real estate portfolios using software that links CAD drawings to databases. This allows companies to track space usage more accurately and potentially save millions through improved efficiency. Unlike other costs, real estate was often not well managed or controlled. However, tools from FIS give visibility into vacant space and layout options to reduce leased areas. Major customers like Cisco Systems use FIS to model scenarios for offices and reconfigurations.
- Software is eating the physical world
- The IoT that's real today is industrial IoT
- IoT is now accessible to the modern developer (JavaScript on Beaglebone, Tessel, etc)
- Mobile/IoT backends are readily available and we all live in a world of glue code for open building blocks
When anything is possible, where do you begin?
When trillions of things can be connected, which things should you connect?
Start now, because the Internet of Things begins with your things and simple changes can transform your business right now.
Adam Dorfman - “Blockchain 2.0: From Profits to Purpose. How Blockchain Platf...Timetogrowup
Adam Dorfman - “Blockchain 2.0: From Profits to Purpose. How Blockchain Platform Businesson Platforms Will Change the Nature of Work”
Blockchain Summit Kyiv 2018
Big Data and the Future of Journalism (Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard...Gerd Leonhard
This is a slightly edited version of my slides presented in London on June 7, 2013 and the Reuters Institute see https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/big-data-big-ideas-for-media.html
BTW: You can download ALL of my slideshows, free books and other stuff at http://futuristgerd.com/downloads/
"Data stockpiles are growing exponentially...consumer profiles, media content usage patterns, Twitter and Facebook posts, online purchases, public records, real-time media user behavior and much more. The Big Ideas conference speakers will inspire tactics and strategies to harness these data.
The media industry's leading edge experts from journalism and business disciplines will detail their own case studies, outlining their challenges and triumphs using tools to understand complex data sets. They will outline how these experiences have paved the way to prize-winning journalism, audience insights and growing revenues..."
- Software is eating the physical world
- The IoT that's real today is industrial IoT
- IoT is now accessible to the modern developer (JavaScript on Beaglebone, Tessel, etc)
- Mobile/IoT backends are readily available and we all live in a world of glue code for open building blocks
When anything is possible, where do you begin?
When trillions of things can be connected, which things should you connect?
Start now, because the Internet of Things begins with your things and simple changes can transform your business right now.
Adam Dorfman - “Blockchain 2.0: From Profits to Purpose. How Blockchain Platf...Timetogrowup
Adam Dorfman - “Blockchain 2.0: From Profits to Purpose. How Blockchain Platform Businesson Platforms Will Change the Nature of Work”
Blockchain Summit Kyiv 2018
Big Data and the Future of Journalism (Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard...Gerd Leonhard
This is a slightly edited version of my slides presented in London on June 7, 2013 and the Reuters Institute see https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/forthcoming-conferences/big-data-big-ideas-for-media.html
BTW: You can download ALL of my slideshows, free books and other stuff at http://futuristgerd.com/downloads/
"Data stockpiles are growing exponentially...consumer profiles, media content usage patterns, Twitter and Facebook posts, online purchases, public records, real-time media user behavior and much more. The Big Ideas conference speakers will inspire tactics and strategies to harness these data.
The media industry's leading edge experts from journalism and business disciplines will detail their own case studies, outlining their challenges and triumphs using tools to understand complex data sets. They will outline how these experiences have paved the way to prize-winning journalism, audience insights and growing revenues..."
Trading Desk Fitmedia - Mídia Programática Premium 2016 Bruno Pompeu
A apresentação da nossa plataforma, lançada em janeiro de 2016, uma TDA de mídia programática premium, que vem conquistando clientes com resultados diferenciados e acima da média dos players do mercado.
Driving Transformative Change: The Role of the Private SectorSustainable Brands
The risks and opportunities involved in addressing climate change are becoming better understood in cabinet and board meetings around the world. Businesses will need to consider whether they want to be disrupted and left behind, or be the disruptors who take proactive actions to grow into the change and benefit from new opportunities. Investors will increasingly seek out those companies that are taking the latter approach.
Sistema agroalimentario y Cambio climático. Marta G. Rivera FerréEcologistas en Accion
Sistema agroalimentario y Cambio climático. Marta G. Rivera Ferré
Curso de Posgrado de Cambio climático
junio/julio 2015
Ecologistas en Acción/Flacso/Usal
Caso estudio BeWater: adaptación al Cambio climático desde la perspectiva del...Ecologistas en Accion
Caso estudio BeWater: adaptación al Cambio climático desde la perspectiva del agua. Annelies Broekman
Curso de posgrado de Cambio climático
junio/julio 2015
Ecologistas en Acción/Flacso/Usal
As demand for digital talent reaches a crescendo, CIOs are increasingly embracing an Uber-like approach to filling key technical roles throughout their organizations.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Telecommunication & Media
Industry. We are very excited to share
this content and believe that readers
will benefit from this periodic
publication immensely.
Technology and big data are revolutionising the construction industry. This guide will give insights on how to leverage this data and implement positive change, moving business above competitors.
Trading Desk Fitmedia - Mídia Programática Premium 2016 Bruno Pompeu
A apresentação da nossa plataforma, lançada em janeiro de 2016, uma TDA de mídia programática premium, que vem conquistando clientes com resultados diferenciados e acima da média dos players do mercado.
Driving Transformative Change: The Role of the Private SectorSustainable Brands
The risks and opportunities involved in addressing climate change are becoming better understood in cabinet and board meetings around the world. Businesses will need to consider whether they want to be disrupted and left behind, or be the disruptors who take proactive actions to grow into the change and benefit from new opportunities. Investors will increasingly seek out those companies that are taking the latter approach.
Sistema agroalimentario y Cambio climático. Marta G. Rivera FerréEcologistas en Accion
Sistema agroalimentario y Cambio climático. Marta G. Rivera Ferré
Curso de Posgrado de Cambio climático
junio/julio 2015
Ecologistas en Acción/Flacso/Usal
Caso estudio BeWater: adaptación al Cambio climático desde la perspectiva del...Ecologistas en Accion
Caso estudio BeWater: adaptación al Cambio climático desde la perspectiva del agua. Annelies Broekman
Curso de posgrado de Cambio climático
junio/julio 2015
Ecologistas en Acción/Flacso/Usal
As demand for digital talent reaches a crescendo, CIOs are increasingly embracing an Uber-like approach to filling key technical roles throughout their organizations.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Telecommunication & Media
Industry. We are very excited to share
this content and believe that readers
will benefit from this periodic
publication immensely.
Technology and big data are revolutionising the construction industry. This guide will give insights on how to leverage this data and implement positive change, moving business above competitors.
Early Stage Real Estate Tech Investment Thesis (Sept 2016)Earnest Sweat
Here is an example of a personal investment thesis that I created to share with venture capital firms. In this example, I provide my personal perspective on the real estate tech sector. For details on how I build this thesis check out my blog (https://goo.gl/CU4Qid).
Note: Some of the confidential information has been redacted for privacy.
The Trouble With Enterprise SoftwareF A L L 2 0 0 7 .docxssusera34210
The Trouble With
Enterprise Software
F A L L 2 0 0 7 V O L . 4 9 N O . 1
R E P R I N T N U M B E R 4 9 1 0 1
Cynthia Rettig
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ticle appears as originally published.
C O N T R A R I A
Te ch n o l o g y h a s a l -
w a y s b e e n a b o u t
hope. Since the begin-
ning of the industrial
revolution, businesses
have embraced new
technologies enthusi-
a s t i c a l l y, a n d t h e i r
optimism has been
re w a rd e d w i t h i m -
p r o v e d p r o c e s s e s ,
lower costs and re-
duced workforces. As the pace of technological
innovation has intensified over the past two de-
cades, businesses have come to expect that the next
new thing will inevitably bring them larger market
opportunities and bigger profits. Software, a tech-
nology so invisible and obscure to most of us that it
appears to work like magic, especially lends itself to
this kind of open-ended hope.
Software promises evolutions, revolutions and
even transformations in how companies do busi-
ness. The triumphant vision many buy into is that
enterprise software in large organizations is fully
integrated and intelligently controls infinitely com-
plex business processes while remaining flexible
enough to adapt to changing business needs. This
vision of software lies at the core of what Thomas
Friedman in “The World Is Flat” calls “the Wal-
Mart Symphony in multiple movements — with
no finale. It just plays over and over 24/7/365.”1
Whole systems march in lock step, providing syn-
chronized, fully coordinated supply chains,
production lines and services, just like a world-
class orchestra. From online web orders through
fulfillment, delivery, billing and customer service
— the entire enterprise, organized end to end —
that has been the promise. The age of smart
machines would seem to be upon us.
Or is it? While a few companies like Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. have achieved something close to that
ideal, the way most large organizations actually
process information belies that glorious vision and
reveals a looking-glass world, where everything is
in fact the opposite of what one might expect.
Back-office systems — including both software ap-
plications and the data they process — are a
variegated patchwork of systems, containing 50 or
more databases and hundreds of separate software
programs installed over decades and intercon-
nected by idiosyncratic, Byzantine and poorly
documented customized processes. To manage this
growing complexity, IT departments have grown
substantially: As a percentage of total investment,
IT rose from 2.6% to 3.5% between 1970 and 1980.2
By 1990 IT consumed 9%, and by 1999 a whopping
22% of total investment went to IT. Growth in IT
spending has fallen off, but it is nonetheless sur-
prising to hear that today’s IT departments spe ...
[COLLABORATION]
Superhero
In the
Cubicle
New collaborative tools
empower employees to
tackle tasks with better
results. By Virginia Citrano
L
et's face it: It s not easy working for
a U.S. company these days, regard-
less of your job. Decentralization is
pushing more tasks down, leaving
those below with more to organize, moni-
tor and deliver. Communications technology
means everyone is on call 24/7, in the office,
at home, on the train, in the car. The flood
of information unleashed on the Internet
that was supposed to simplify our jobs
has left most of us feeling deiuged...
Most, but not all. As the Internet
blossoms into Web 2.0, some work-
ers and managers are discovering new
tools to cope with task and data over-
load: Flexible tools designed for the
myriad challenges knowledge work-
ers face, not just for routine tasks. Tools
that help better manage and prtoritize
work, rally the strongest team mem-
bers for each job and use talent most
efficiently. Tools that help deliver work
and gather feedback. And perhaps most crit-
ical, tools that let only the essential infor-
mation through the floodgates, in the most
useful format.
Thanks to new collaborative tools, these
employees have the power to do their jobs
in a whole new way—a way that makes the
best use of their time and their company's
resources. It's hard to fault them for feeling
a little like superheroes. capes rippling in
the wind.
c And Speaking of Weather...
* High wind and torrential rain can be the
3 bane of the Federal Aviation Administration
[COLLABORATION]
this time of year. But thanks to some new
collaborative technology, the FAA is ready
to handle the worst that hurrtcane season—
and govemment auditors—can dish out.
If an FAA installation is knocked out by
a storm, the agency relies on a team of 200
volunteers to get it back on line fast. Man-
agers use persona] credit cards to buy any
equipment they need to make repairs. That's
much faster than govemment procurement
channels, but it used to leave a messy trail
for auditors. Now. however, the FAA's Disas-
ter Response Team uses IBM Lotus Connec-
tions, a new Web-based tool from Big Blue
will be acquired, and some may be simply
overrun as larger companies such as Micro-
soft, IBM and Google push deeper into the
world of collaborative technology. What's
more, even the best collaborative tools will
be moot if a company fails to build a culture
of collaboration around them.
But these collaborative technologies are
the seeds of the next Web revolution. Busi-
ness strategists Don Tapscott and Anthony
D. Williams coined the term "wikinomics"
and published a book by that name in 2006
to sum up the business dynamics of the tools
that will make leaders of the companies that
''You can go upstream with the
solution a heck of a Jot faster than before."
^_-=:Chds.Matthews^ specialized Bicycle
that combines record-keeping, blogging,
bookmarking and more. Using this appli-
cation, workers can easily file all receipts,
for.
Adopting the #IOT in any industry including gyms, fitness facilities and health clubs requires strategy, a road map and a execution. The ROI and other benefits to the customer a huge.
Internet of Things: From Strategy to Action: Driving IoT to Industrial ScaleCognizant
Full IoT value cannot be realized by connecting a few devices. Organizations need to get beyond instrumentation, and focus on the impact these technologies can have on their business strategies, which will require leadership, vision and partnership.
FIS Helps Managers Save Costs By Tracking Office Real Estate - WSJ
1. Managing real estate isn't a high priority in many executive suites. In fact, some
business managers concede they don't know precisely how much office or factory space
they have leased -- or how much they are paying for it. But an outfit known as FIS aims
to fix that.
Unlike other operating costs, real estate "has been assumed as a fixed cost that is neither
manageable nor controllable," explains Charles P. Woznick, president and chief
executive of Facility Information Systems (www.fisinc.com ). But with the right tools, he
says, companies can track their real estate accurately and potentially save millions of
dollars by using space more efficiently.
Using software that links computer-aided design drawings to databases built with
Oracle Corp. tools, FIS helps companies track often sprawling empires of office space,
much in the same way they currently track inventory and sales. "If you talk to somebody
who manufactures automobiles, they can tell you what each of 40,000 parts costs down
to the penny, and how many they will need to make cars this year," says Mr. Woznick. His
challenge is to convince business managers to use the same kind of detailed data-
management approach for real estate. One selling point: In a downturn, the data-
management system can help managers to quickly figure out which space to let go and
where to consolidate workers.
Though FIS, based in Camarillo, Calif., has been around since 1993, it has only recently
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2. started to gain visibility among corporate real-estate managers, who have been slow to
adopt new technology. According to the company, it turned a profit for the first time last
year, on sales of about $6 million.
Mr. Woznick, the 49-year-old former co-founder of an orthopedic implant business, first
heard of using technology to better manage real estate when his wife, an architectural
designer, showed him a business plan for a computer-aided design company in the late
1980s. At the time, Mr. Woznick was busy with his own firm, but after he sold his implant
business, investors in the computer-aided design venture approached him about the
possibility of his taking it over, as that company was about to go out of business.
Mr. Woznick, who had mainly been responsible for computerized finance and
production control at his other start-up, decided he could use the assets of the failed
design company to build a business that helped companies introduce cost control to real
estate.
With a few remaining customers, some of the original investors transferred the assets of
Computer Aided Design Group into the newly formed FIS. In 1995, he raised $810,000 in
a round led by Indosuez Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif., and subsequently raised a
further $5.7 million from Indosuez and other investors, quietly signing up major
customers, including Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp. , the University of Chicago and
Washington Mutual Inc.
Late last year, the company announced that Autodesk Ventures, the strategic
investment arm of design-software giant Autodesk Inc. of San Rafael, Calif., had taken
an undisclosed minority stake.
With FIS's systems, real-estate managers can figure out precisely how much vacant
space a company might have on its books. Using that information, companies can
determine whether they can move workers into existing space, or need to lease a whole
new office suite. The software also helps companies connect detailed building drawings
with information about workers, so that an employee in a company's head office can
figure out in which cubicle a co-worker in, say, the London office sits.
Cisco, for example, uses FIS to map about half its 12 million square feet of office space.
David Clute, manager of e-solutions in Cisco's corporate real-estate division, says the
company has used FIS since 1997 to model different space-layout scenarios for new
offices or to reconfigure existing office space to better accommodate moving workers.
Historically, Mr. Clute says, Cisco workers have moved offices about 1.5 times a year.
Right now, Cisco is using FIS to manage its space as the company implements a plan to
lay off 8,500 workers.
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3. Westwood, Kan., telecommunications company Sprint Corp., which seats about 85,000
employees across 23 million square feet of office space, is also a customer. With FIS, says
Paul Savastano, director of information technology within Sprint's real-estate group,
"you can say I have this many workstations nationwide, how many are vacant, and where
they are." With such information instantly at his fingertips, says Mr. Savastano, he is
much better able to help managers expand divisions without necessarily having to go
out and lease a whole new building. "If I can find 100 workstations in the appropriate
city or combination of buildings, I can save the company several million dollars over the
term of a new lease," he says.
Before he had such software, says Sprint's Mr. Savastano, "it was a nightmare" trying to
persuade management to better utilize existing space. For most senior managers, he
says, "real estate is kind of an afterthought."
Despite burgeoning interest from corporate tenants, FIS's growth is still modest. "I
think it's fair to say that this has taken far longer than we had anticipated," says David E.
Gold, general partner at investor Indosuez Ventures. But at least FIS, unlike many failed
real estate-related dot-coms, "has a real product, real customers and real revenue."
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