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The Modern Data warehouse; The low-cost solution using Big Data with HDInsight and PowerShell
Organizations have been reluctant to transition their current business intelligence solutions from the traditional data warehouse infrastructure to big data for many reasons, but there are two reasons that are false barrier to entries, cost and complexity of provisioning environments. In the post below, we will cover how to use PowerShell to commission and decommission…
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Bridging the Owner to Property Manager Data Gap
One of the more common reoccurring problems seen in the real estate space is the disconnect between the data created and stored by the individual property managers and the transfer of that very data to the respective owners, operators and fund managers. In most scenarios, individual property managers are using management and accounting tools of…
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The Solar System A Children’s Educational Book and Lesson’s Learned Self Publishing
As my first book on an introduction to consulting get’s edited, I wanted to try my hand at writing and illustrating a children’s book which can now be found here. The experience was quite entertaining and very educational. Self-publishing allowed me to be extra creative and allowed me to get a good first book out…
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Accelerating the Staging Process for your Data Warehouse
Real Estate Data Warehouse – Accelerating the Staging Process The script below can be used to build a staging environment for any sort of industry and not just real estate related databases. The specifics of a RE Data warehouse will be covered in future blog post. It will allow you to Accelerating the Staging Process for…
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Creating Embedded Yardi SSRS Reports Tutorial
In previous posts we covered topics such as getting your data out of Yardi using the FTP method and the Log shipping method to facilitate building your own custom reports outside of the tool and being able to combine the data with other operational data sources. The tool comes with a comprehensive set of reports…
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Automate your Real Estate Software – Yardi ETL and Automation
Interesting in learning how to Automate your Real Estate Software – Yardi ETL and Automation. This blog post will help you drive your CRE business forward. When running your Real Estate business, it helps to not have to think about the small things. This is where process automation can help free up time for your…
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Jack of All Trades Master of Some – An Introduction to Consulting Book
Two years ago as I reflected back on my career, I decided to begin documenting some of my stories and lessons learned to share on a blog. This exercise quickly turned into pages of a book on the topic of as Introduction to Consulting Book which is currently being edited for release sometime in 2018.…
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Real Estate Data Analytics Tenant Analytics – Tenant Analytics and Boosting your Cap Rate per Unit
Do you own a few rental properties or a multi-family unit? Do you know your best tenant? Is it the tenant that pays slightly lower than market rent but always pays on time? Is it the tenant that pays above market rent but seems to have some sort of maintenance request every other month? Maybe…
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Is the Yardi Private Cloud Right for You?
Yardi software offers two versions of their services offerings, SaaS Select and Hosted Private Could. They are essentially same offering from a front end user’s perspective, but vary significantly on the back end. Deciding on which one is right for you depends on your business requirements, the maturity of your organization, and your data analysis…
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Getting Data from Yardi Log Shipping Part 2
Until recently obtaining data externally from Yardi was reserved to two methods. The first was via a nightly backup of the database or if you were paying for private cloud, then the second was via direct SQL query access over VPN. Both worked very well but both also had some minor flaws. We also have…
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