The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program.  All organizations operating within the U.S. are eligible to submit nominations and more than 3,200 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.

“As a manager, there is nothing more fulfilling than to see your team recognized for their hard work,” said Joann Amoroso, customer care manager of Dean Evans & Associates Inc.

“At DEA, with the support of our CEO and upper management, we’ve always had the luxury of going that extra mile for our clients.  Our goal has always been to create an environment where our employees can thrive and do exceptional work for our clients.  To be recognized by the American Business Awards for our efforts for the third consecutive year is really wonderful.”

The awards competition is structured so that organizations compete against other businesses of the same size, in the same industry.  Finalists were chosen by more than 140 business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.

The awards will be presented on Monday June 17, 2013 in Chicago, Ill.  For more information please visit www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

A fifth program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, will debut this year.  Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.

Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

About Dean Evans & Associates

Founded in 1986 and based in Denver, Dean Evans & Associates is a leader in the development of sophisticated software systems for a wide variety of tasks including: meeting and event scheduling, resource management, academic scheduling, shared workspace management (office “hoteling”), web calendaring and online registration and surveys.

More than 4,000 organizations including many Fortune 100 companies and hundreds of other corporations, over 1,000 higher education campuses, five of the six largest U.S. banks and thousands of conference centers, religious organizations, law firms, hospitals, cultural venues and sports facilities rely on EMS software.

The company’s products are used in over 75 countries and are backed by an award winning Customer Support team.

In 2012, Dean Evans & Associates Inc. was named a “Top Workplace” by the Denver Post.  For more information visit www.dea.com and follow Dean Evans & Associates Inc. on Twitter and LinkedIn.

To do this, Spirit will employ the complete MRI Commercial Management product offering, a fully integrated software suite designed to streamline all aspects of property management and accounting.

In the past decade, Spirit Realty has used multiple reputable solutions to manage their operations and maintain financial records.

To reduce the time to create the complex financial reports they need, Spirit Realty has opted to implement MRI Software. MRI’s offering will incorporate all Spirit’s data in one easy-to-navigate package with powerful, deeply flexible reporting.

A key factor contributing to this decision was MRI’s excellent reputation with Cole Capital Property Trust II, Spirit Realty’s new partner and expected merger affiliate.

Impressed with Cole Capital and other client recommendations, MRI was selected to become Spirit Realty’s new software provider.

By utilizing MRI’s award-winning product line, Spirit Realty will gain access to some of the most robust reporting abilities available, enabling them to make more informed decisions and better optimize their business.

“We are excited to have a sterling firm like Spirit Realty choose MRI for their extensive business management and accounting needs.

The fact that our reputation factored into Spirit Realty’s decision gives me a lot of pride,” said David Post, CEO of MRI Software. “It speaks volumes to the power of the product and the commitment of our service and support teams when our clients are willing to give such compelling recommendations.”

To learn more about MRI Software’s award-winnings solutions, click here.

About MRI Software

MRI offers property management software solutions to the global real estate management and investment industries.

As a leading provider of real estate enterprise software applications and hosted solutions, MRI serves the global multifamily and commercial property industries, helping them improve their bottom line and maximize their returns on their diverse business portfolios.

MRI leverages its more than 40 years in business to develop long-term successful relationships with its clients. For more information, please visit www.mrisoftware.com.

Takeaways for getting your hoteling program started right include:

• What kind of communication is needed at each step
• What policies must be in place before implementation
• How to prevent abuse and enforce policies
• Determining who should hotel and which workspaces are available
• Approaches for hoteling-as-a-mandate vs. hoteling-as-a-privilege
• Getting support and buy-in from stakeholders and upper management

For example, an increasingly remote workforce requires less physical space, but when energy usage and sustainability are factored in, the cost reduction achieved by organizations when they no longer have to heat, cool and maintain unused space can be even more significant.

Other factors also drive the need for more or less space, as organizations confront the realities of downsizing, relocation, mergers and acquisitions, and rapid growth.

Facilities executives must deliver a dynamic combination of people, process, technology and space to support these changes.

To ensure that your organization’s buildings and staff operate at their best, seek a facilities management solution that centralizes and integrates critical facilities management processes to improve the effectiveness of a distributed workforce, increase the utilization of physical facilities, accelerate the configuration of your workplace, and help you plan efficient moves, whether inter-departmental or from building to building.

This buyer’s guide outlines the features and capabilities of an effective facilities management solution, addressing the following key areas:

1. Facilities space management
2. Strategic facilities planning
3. Move management
4. Workplace reservation management
5. Management system architecture

Each section of the guide provides a checklist of features to help you evaluate whether or not a solution effectively addresses each of these areas.

You will also find tips to help you select solutions with the support—and a vendor with the financial stability—to address the full range of your facilities management requirements.

Download your copy to discover key criteria for a facilities management software.

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A resort outside of Las Vegas was the location for the annual Manhattan Software User Conference last week entitled ‘Reality Check.’

Craig Gillespie, CEO of Manhattan Software, welcomed the attendees with a recap of the Client Impact Committee meeting the day before: 20% increase in participation with nine new companies joining the group of 40 members.

In the past year, there have been fifteen product enhancements requested and completed by Manhattan for the CIC.

This was one ‘reality check’ but Craig looked at the past year with a broader reference to how much had happened since we last met: 5,500,000 new jobs added to the economy; corporate profits up $19 trillion; housing starts up 47% and each day we are creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data adding up to 750 quintillion bytes last year alone.

What a year we have just experienced!

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The project used Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology and related leading edge technologies to help achieve FAA goals of improving building financial performance and operational efficiency from design to decommissioning.

The award was conferred by ARCHIBUS, Inc. (www.archibus.com), the leading developer worldwide of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software, and was presented at the recently held International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference in San Francisco.

Lockheed Martin’s management team also included Liyuan Kuan, Vadivu Natarajan, Filimon Berhe and Roya Abedi.

The Lifecycle BIM project was a proof of concept that demonstrated to the FAA the benefits of integrated lifecycle facility management. Utilizing these integrated workflows, it is projected that the FAA will save approximately $65,000,000 over a ten-year period.

Lockheed Martin’s team relied on ARCHIBUS software and expertise from ARCHIBUS Business Partner EcoDomus, headed by Igor Starkov, to capture, analyze, integrate, and distribute building lifecycle information.

About ARCHIBUS, Inc.

ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions with the total annual expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services valued at over $2.1 Billion (USD).

For more than 30 years, ARCHIBUS innovations have fostered business transformation that saves users’ organizations over $100 billion annually.

With ARCHIBUS, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability.

ARCHIBUS is the world-wide proponent for the creation of ubiquitous environmental sustainability and intuitive business transformation (IBT) initiatives. ARCHIBUS has dominated the global real estate, infrastructure and facilities management automation market with a market share of over 94%.

More than 7,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and Web users collectively manage over 15,000,000 buildings and properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%.

With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 190 countries and in more than 30 languages.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure and facilities management technologies since 1982. For more information, visit www.archibus.com

This accomplishment signifies the company’s success through superior technical and sales skills, contribution towards IBM revenue, and innovative solutions.

By achieving the highest level of the partnership designation, IBM attests eCIFM’s capabilities and advancement in IBM technology.

“We are very proud of attaining the Premier status. This achievement symbolizes our competency in benchmarks set by IBM”, says Vimal Uberoi, President, eCIFM Solutions Inc.

IBM and its business partners collaborate to provide customers significant value through superior skills and value added solutions.

“We strive to be the best IBM business partner. We constantly work on providing exceptional service, better business solutions, and exceeding our customers’ expectations,” mentioned Uberoi.

eCIFM is geared towards keeping up and exceeding IBM’s criteria on maintaining the Premier Business Partner.

For more information on eCIFM’s business solutions, view the IBM global solutions directory. To contact an eCIFM expert, visit ecifm.com.

About eCIFM Solutions Inc.

eCIFM Solutions Inc. is an AAA accredited IBM business partner providing Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) solution for organizations looking to improve their real estate portfolios, facilities, and workplace management.

AAA accreditation confirms IBM eCIFM’s ability to deploy premier professionals for the IBM TRIRIGA suite; thereby proving itself a key differentiator in implementation services.

With over 12 years’ experience in implementing Workplace Management Systems for clients in the corporate arena and federal, state and local government sectors, eCIFM boosts organizations overall operational effectiveness and helps its clients achieve significant return from real estate investments.

For more information about eCIFM Solutions Inc., visit eCIFM Solutions Inc. or call (925) 830 – 1925.

OnBoard for Android joins AgilQuest’s apps for iPhone and Blackberry to complete their support for all mobile workers using the most popular company‐supplied or BYOD mobile devices. “Users demand the convenience of native apps on their phones.

When you make it this simple to find a desk from anywhere or to check in to a reservation with just a tap on your phone, user adoption goes through the roof and space planners get the boost of accurate actual use of space data” said John Vivadelli, CEO of AgilQuest.

User adoption is critical when workplace goals require cooperation from each and every worker. Mobile workers expect more than simple web‐based solutions and AgilQuest delivers the first native apps with check in, check out, and automatic vicinity notification.

Torrance Houlihan, VP of Product Management for AgilQuest, states “OnBoard’s new interfaces for iPhone and Android use built‐in GPS, Location‐based services and geo‐fencing to notify users when they are close enough to the office to check in to their reservations. It just pops up and asks ‘Check in now?’ while you’re approaching the front door or walking across the parking lot. Customers are calling this a ‘game changer’ and are accelerating their upgrade plans to take advantage of these new mobile apps.”

Now that OnBoard is available across all popular smartphones, excitement about the new mobile interfaces has been universal across HR, IT, CRE and line‐of‐business executives.

AgilQuest’s Scout interface brings OnBoard to Blackberry and other mobile web smartphones without having to navigate a full website while the iPhone and Android native apps make satisfy users’ needs with just a couple of taps and swipes.

OnBoard for iPhone, OnBoard for Android, and OnBoard Scout for Blackberry are compatible with

OnBoard version 5.5 and higher and are all available immediately.

To see OnBoard’s mobile app in action visit http://agilquest.com/mobile-apps

For more information visit http://agilquest.com/onboard

About AgilQuest

AgilQuest offers patented technology and workplace expertise to measure and manage office space and train the workforce to thrive in the new workplace. Businesses and government agencies rely on AgilQuest to measure the actual use of office space, manage meeting room reservations, and provide hoteling for mobile workers.

For Further Information contact

Doug Lucy

Director of Marketing AgilQuest Corporation Telephone: 804‐745‐0467

Email: marketing@agilquest.com

“Our new website greatly improves the user experience and demonstrates the great strides we’ve made as an organization in our thought leadership position within the workplace management industry,” commented Jen Roth, Asure Software Vice President of Marketing.  “Asure’s solutions help organizations turn what are typically their largest expenses – labor, real estate and energy – into strategic opportunities. The new web site showcases how we equip customers to simplify their workplaces with cloud-based, SaaS solutions that strategically prepare their workplaces for today’s rapidly changing workforces.”

Roth also noted that the revised site is built to support the company’s anticipated growth with features such as social media integration and an Asure Software blog, integrated access to customer tools and resources, and a much deeper level of industry and product-related information for AsureForce TLM offerings and AsureSpace workplace management solutions.

About Asure Software

Asure Software, Inc., (Nasdaq: ASUR) headquartered in Austin, Texas, offers cloud-based time and labor management and workspace management solutions that enable businesses to control their biggest costs — labor, real estate and technology  – and prepare for the workforce of the future in a highly mobile, geographically disparate and technically wired work environment. Asure serves approximately 6,000 clients worldwide and currently offers two main product lines: AsureSpace™ workplace management solutions enable organizations to maximize the ROI of their real estate, and AsureForce^® time and labor management solutions deliver efficient management of human resource and payroll processes.  For more information, please visit www.asuresoftware.com