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Whether you’re looking for a new Smart Building technology solution or looking to update an existing one; selecting, implementing, and maximising the value of software from a crowded field of vendors is a difficult and time-consuming task. We’ve carefully curated a selection of data rich reports to help minimize risk, while giving you the ability to make the most informed decision when choosing a solution that best fits your business requirements.
Building Your Smart Building Tech Strategy
Verdantix research brings together feedback from your peers and best practices to create a plan and roadmap to define your overall Smart Building technology strategy. Specific reports to get you started:
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Tech Roadmap: Space And Workplace Management Solutions
This Tech Roadmap analysis clarifies the business value, pace of innovation and maturity of 22 technologies that optimize space and workplace management processes. Executives and managers responsible for selecting and implementing space and workplace management technologies should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions and shortlist suppliers. The analysis pinpoints solutions that deliver hig… -
Privacy Law During COVID-19: What You Need To Know When Monitoring Employee Health
To support COVID-19 infection control, employers are putting in place new strategies to capture data on employee health and travel activities outside of work. Firms rolling out these programmes need to better understand what data they are allowed to capture and share under local privacy, data protection and employment laws. This report provides corporate executives with an introductory guide to managing employee heal… -
Real Estate IT Strategies: IWMS, Point Solutions, And Everything In Between
Firms planning to invest in a new facilities and real estate management software solution face many technology choices. One critical decision is whether to invest in a single software platform, leverage multiple point solutions or use a mix of the two. This report analyses four major real estate IT strategies that buyers should consider and sets out the long-term implications for firms pursuing each of them. CIOs, fa… -
Staff Are Not Cattle: Best Practices For Delivering Space Consolidation And Wellbeing
Urban rents are soaring, and sensor technologies continue to reveal chronically suboptimal utilization of corporate office space. Real estate executives are therefore consolidating their portfolios without a concurrent reduction in the size of their workforces. Is this good for employee engagement and productivity? This report examines the existing literature, case studies and exclusive data from Verdantix’s 2018 sur… -
How To Transition To A Smart Workplace: Office Design, Technology And Collaboration (Webinar)
The ‘smart workplace’ is a major trend shaping the design and management of buildings that deliver great occupant experiences and worker productivity. The move toward smarter workplaces requires thinking across office design, IT, software, communication and employee demographics. This webinar will draw on a multitude of recent Verdantix studies to bring recommendations to heads of real estate and facilities on how th… -
Smart Tech For Building Retrofits: What Are The Viable Strategies?
This report helps facility managers and building technology vendors understand the viable strategies to increase the performance of existing buildings. With over 80% of buildings in many developed countries now over 25 years of age, building owners, tenants and investors look to better understand how to make their existing buildings more efficient and engaging for occupants. Based on our recent researc… -
Tech Roadmap For Facilities Optimization Software
The Tech Roadmap analysis clarifies the business value, pace of innovation and maturity of 26 technologies that optimize facility operations. Verdantix conducted a fact-based assessment of each solution’s maturity, investment case, prospects and life cycle evolution. Executives and managers responsible for selecting and implementing facilities optimization technologies should use this structured assessment to priorit…
Learning From How Your Peers Are Using Tech & Benchmarking Your Plans
A common step for real estate executives looking to identify the relevant technologies and to justify the investment is to benchmark to peer companies and learn from their experiences. Using the Verdantix research executives can compare themselves to both broad groups (from our global surveys) or to individual companies.
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Global Corporate Survey 2019: Smart Building Technology Budgets, Priorities & Preferences
This report helps real estate and facility directors to benchmark their firms’ smart building technology strategies, investments and priorities over the next 12 months. It also helps facility services firms and providers of smart building technologies to align their business and product plans with market demand. The data was gathered through 304 phone interviews with firms across 18 industries and all major economies… -
Barangaroo South Leverages Eutech Group’s IoT Solutions For Sustainable Building Management
This case study report will help heads of real estate, facilities management and property management understand how the property team at the Barangaroo South International Towers, Sydney, are optimizing their building operations. This report focuses on how the team has deployed Eutech’s iviva operating platform to optimize sustainability practices. The building management team leverages Eutech’s building IoT solution… -
Tech Roadmap: Space And Workplace Management Solutions
This Tech Roadmap analysis clarifies the business value, pace of innovation and maturity of 22 technologies that optimize space and workplace management processes. Executives and managers responsible for selecting and implementing space and workplace management technologies should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions and shortlist suppliers. The analysis pinpoints solutions that deliver hig… -
How Does A Private Healthcare Firm Manage Its Complex Real Estate Using IWMS Software?
Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) and other real estate solutions can deliver huge value for those managing large, complex property portfolios, but deploying them is never straightforward. To shed light on the journey customers experience when implementing such software, Verdantix interviewed the Head of Space Management at a private healthcare firm in California, US, on a strictly confidential basis.&nb… -
OVG And Schneider Electric Herald The Evolution Of Smart Buildings
The past five years have seen a resurgence in interest in the smart building agenda, largely driven by declining costs in associated technology (such as IoT-based sensors) and new focal points (such as the increasing corporate interest in employee wellbeing and engagement). Although owner approaches to smart buildings can vary widely, what they have in common is that projects are primarily focused on energy eff… -
WeWork Demonstrates How To Get Value From Smart Building Technologies
Office space provider WeWork has been a focal point of headlines in the real estate world since its inception in 2010 because of its rapid expansion and steep billion-dollar valuations. WeWork has also been at the forefront of smart building innovation, applying technology to improve construction processes, office design, space utilization and tenant engagement across its rapidly expanding building portfolio. It has … -
Global Corporate Survey 2019: Capital Planning Trends
In an era of aging building assets and continuing pressure on budgets, facilities executives are making the optimization of capital planning a priority. This report leverages the 2019 global smart building technology survey with 304 corporate real estate executives to provide industry-level insights into firms’ capital planning strategies and software deployment plans. The research finds there is broad interest from …
Choosing Technology & Selecting A Vendor
Verdantix research helps corporate executives accelerate and reduce the risk when selecting a technology vendor – please find our buyers’ guides for an overview of vendors, Green Quadrants which are detailed benchmarks of the leading suppliers, and functionality benchmarks that hone in on particular functionality.
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Product Benchmark: Building Asset Management And Maintenance
Real estate and facilities managers should use this report to compare the asset management and maintenance functionality of 13 building IoT platform vendors. The vendors were benchmarked across a total of 14 asset management and maintenance criteria from the latest Verdantix benchmark study on IoT platforms (see Verdantix Green Quadrant IoT Platforms For Smart Buildings 2019). This includes seven criteria for asset m… -
Green Quadrant Integrated Workplace Management Systems 2019
This report provides a detailed fact-based comparison of the 16 most prominent integrated workplace management system solutions available on the market today. Based on the proprietary Verdantix Green Quadrant methodology, the analysis is based on two-hour live product demonstrations with pre-set usage scenarios and vendor responses to a 165-point questionnaire. To understand customer needs Verdantix conducted in-dept… -
How To Select The Correct Smart Building Software For Your Business (Webinar)
Pursuing a smart building vision for your organization will almost certainly require investment in one or more software applications. Selecting the correct smart building software solution from a crowded field of vendors is a difficult task. Opting for the wrong software vendor is a time-consuming and expensive mistake for any organization. In order to minimize risks, heads of estates and heads of facilities need to … -
Green Quadrant IoT Platforms For Smart Buildings 2019
The IoT is set to bring a new dimension to how facilities are managed, controlled and optimised. This report provides a detailed fact-based comparison of the 13 most prominent IoT platforms for smart buildings available on the market today. Based on the proprietary Verdantix Green Quadrant methodology, the analysis is based on two-hour live product demonstrations and vendor responses to a 108-point questionnaire. To … -
10 Innovative And Exciting Visitor Management Firms To Watch In 2020
Facility managers as well as heads of digital workplaces and workplace experience should use this report to understand the cutting-edge product developments taking place across the visitor management sector. Vendors across the smart building technology ecosystem should use this report to identify potential partnership opportunities and acquisition targets. The analysis identifies 10 vendors developing exciting and cu… -
Smart Innovators: Building Occupant Mobile Apps
This report provides corporate real estate, facilities management and workplace executives, as well as asset managers and landlords, with an assessment of the emerging category of mobile apps designed to improve occupant and tenant experience of buildings. Over the past two years, there has been a flurry of new mobile apps launched by start-ups, workplace management specialists, IWMS vendors and building management s… -
Smart Innovators: Smart Lighting
Heads of real estate and facilities management should read this report to bring themselves up to speed with the value delivered by innovations in the smart lighting software market (such as Bluetooth mesh networks and Li-Fi). The report details what drives most buyers to deploy smart lighting systems and what defines such a system today. It then outlines the myriad use cases and their varying levels of maturity, prov…
In addition, our reports on specific vendors help you better understand their strategy, solution development and if they might be a good for your organisation:
Building The Business Case For Tech
This essential step is self-explanatory:
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The Business Case For Integrated Workplace Management Systems
The Verdantix 2018 global survey of corporate real estate and facilities executives shows that 34% of firms are evaluating the purchase of software to improve real estate and building management, of which 20% are considering an IWMS solution. This report provides real estate and facilities executives a framework to develop a powerful numbers-driven business case to support an IWMS investment pitch. The analysis shows… -
The Business Case For Space And Workplace Management Software
Over 90% of real estate and facilities executives Verdantix interviewed in its 2018 global survey consider maximizing space utilization an important part of their real estate strategy. This report provides executives with a framework to develop a comprehensive, numbers-driven business case to support a space and workplace management software investment pitch. The analysis shows a business case that is almost too good… -
WeWork Demonstrates How To Get Value From Smart Building Technologies
Office space provider WeWork has been a focal point of headlines in the real estate world since its inception in 2010 because of its rapid expansion and steep billion-dollar valuations. WeWork has also been at the forefront of smart building innovation, applying technology to improve construction processes, office design, space utilization and tenant engagement across its rapidly expanding building portfolio. It has … -
Industry-Level Buying Criteria For Smart Building Software
Verdantix interviewed 303 senior real estate decision-makers across six regions and 18 industries to learn about their strategic direction, budgets and priorities in relation to smart building technologies (see Verdantix Global Survey 2018: Smart Building Technology, Budgets, Priorities & Preferences). This report provides a unique data set for smart building technology software vendors to understand the priority cri…
Getting Value From Your Technology Estate
Selecting and implementing a vendor is by no means the end of the story. Most firms only get a fraction of the possible value from the technology they have implement. So whether it’s part of long term improvement plans or for crisis response (such as Covid), Verdantix covers this topic with multiple technologies:
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Practical Ways To Leverage Your IWMS To Respond To COVID-19
This report provides corporate real estate and facilities management executives with practical guidance on how they can leverage their IWMS platform to support their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It sets out how firms can deploy, configure or extend their IWMS to support infection control procedures and social distancing in buildings which remain open or are re-opening following government-enforced lockdowns. As… -
Best Practices For Energy Management In An Era Of Smart Buildings
Corporate energy management is changing today as the smart building agenda forces executives to think more holistically about building performance and capitalize on new opportunities from building-to-grid interactions. This report provides energy and facilities executives with best practice advice for taking their energy programmes forward in an era of a changing real estate priorities and an evolving power system. V… -
Staff Are Not Cattle: Best Practices For Delivering Space Consolidation And Wellbeing
Urban rents are soaring, and sensor technologies continue to reveal chronically suboptimal utilization of corporate office space. Real estate executives are therefore consolidating their portfolios without a concurrent reduction in the size of their workforces. Is this good for employee engagement and productivity? This report examines the existing literature, case studies and exclusive data from Verdantix’s 2018 sur… -
IWMS Implementations: The Time-To-Value Imperative
Across the integrated workplace management system (IWMS) market, vendors have been investing in their software solutions to enable faster and more flexible implementations. This report provides executives responsible for managing an IWMS deployment with an analysis of vendor product strategies and advice on how to expedite time to value of an IWMS implementation. The research finds vendors are modernizing their platf… -
Market Overview: Identifying The Tangible Opportunities From The IoT In Buildings
Internet of Things (IoT) systems for buildings are an expanding category of facility optimization solutions that hold great promise to drive building performance across equipment, building operations and workspaces. In a changing landscape of new innovation, emerging usage scenarios and improving economics of the more common scenarios, it is hard for real estate and facilities executives to work out precisely where t… -
WeWork Demonstrates How To Get Value From Smart Building Technologies
Office space provider WeWork has been a focal point of headlines in the real estate world since its inception in 2010 because of its rapid expansion and steep billion-dollar valuations. WeWork has also been at the forefront of smart building innovation, applying technology to improve construction processes, office design, space utilization and tenant engagement across its rapidly expanding building portfolio. It has …
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