MINI Cooper and RFID?

I was wondering when RFID would find its way out of "tracking goods" and being used for other things...

 

Heres a funny one BMW came up with to add a "look at me" touch for their MINI drivers...

 

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/13/mini-usa-rolls-out-rfid-activated-billboards/

 

S.

Accruent Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for IWMS, 2006

Whoo, hoo....

 

Accruent Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems, 2006

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070109006080&newsLang=en

 

Accruent Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems, 2006

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accruent, Inc., the leading provider of Real Estate Performance Management solutions, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Workplace Management Systems, 2006”¹ report.

“We believe our position in Gartner’s leaders quadrant is the result of successful partnerships with our customers to deliver enterprise-level software to manage and integrate corporate real estate information,” said Mark Friedman, CEO of Accruent. “We serve users who are challenged to manage real estate from a financial, legal, design, project management, and services perspective. Accruent will continue to deliver impactful and easy-to-use solutions that integrate these very diverse perspectives and disciplines.”

According to the Gartner report, the market drivers for Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) include cost efficiency, globalization, and an increasing interest in an integrated approach to facilities and real estate management. Additionally, compliance requirements, especially in the context of Section 404 of the SOX act of 2002, “compel executive management to acquire IWMSs to improve financial transparency and maintain auditable data, particularly related to lease transactions.”

The collaborative, web-based Accruent Real Estate Performance Management solution effectively manages all real estate lifecycle processes, including identifying, opening, and maintaining stores, branches, corporate offices, and facilities. The company’s solutions enable customers to securely manage mission-critical information in an integrated central data repository, empowering decision makers with reliable real-time information and analytics, while providing a solid foundation for achieving SOX and other regulatory compliance. The Accruent suite allows organizations with significant real estate portfolios to manage complex lease structures, thus reducing capital and operational expenditures and providing significant ongoing savings.

NRF - The "Big Show"

I'll be presenting at the NRF show again this year.  We'll have a bootha the show as well as a kisok and theater time with Microsoft.  I'll be offically presenting in the Microsoft Theater at 10:45am on Tuesday Jan. 16th.  We'll be showing our cool visualization app and presenting a whole new app too!.  Its very very cool.

 

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to you!!!  Looking forward to an exciting 2007!

 

Cheers

Toshiba M400 Vista RTM Drivers!!!

Finally Toshiba released drivers that work with RTM!!  Woo hoo... 

 

First insall the "driver pack" - adds support for most of the tablet hardware (buttons, rotation, etc)

then installed the bios update to 3.1 (so happy it didnt toast my notebook)

then the HDD protetion, fingerprint reader, etc...

 

All working quite nicely.  My notebook even reboots...(i use to have to force reboots before the driver updates)

 

http://www.csdsupport.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/windows_vista/vista_beta.cgi?lsAction=list_files&model_id=10 

 

not sure why toshiba didnt organize the drivers better on the page...hard to figure out what to install first or what does not apply.

 

good luck!

Vista/Office 2007 Launch Presentation...

We got another great opportunity to present our next generation solution at the Vista/Office 2007 launch event here in Toronto.  We presented to over 600 architects.  We presented with Mohammad (a Senior Architect as MS) our partner evagilist Cigdem.

 

It was also good to run into so many familiar faces!

Winning on the Web…

Back in November I was asked by MS to be a guest speaker at an event held at the Trump National Golf Club called "Winning on the Web". It was a great opportunity as I got to be part of an elite executive panel including Allen Hurff and Aber Whitcomb from MySpace, Phil Dawley from Move.com, Walt Williams from RazorGator and Michael Platt and Architect at Microsoft. The discussion was about the Web 2.0 movement and other major forces impacting web solutions including process automation, compliance and rich user interfaces.

By the way, "Tom" on myspace is a real person J Aber confirmed it.