Silverlight and Bing Maps Used at Grubb & Ellis

dpeuswr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:00 GMT

Today is a time in history where there are more economic factors disrupting the real estate market and operations than ever before. To mitigate this trend and ensure real estate and financial professionals have all the information necessary to make critical decisions, more and more data is being provided to help improve business intelligence. However, this resulted in creating mountains of charts, graphs and documents that need to be reviewed from multiple systems, in order to present a clear perspective of assets, locations, and their operations. This sheer volume of information adds significant overhead to the users and professionals that depend on them.

To address this issue, Grubb & Ellis Company worked with Microsoft and speakTECH, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, leveraging Microsoft Silverlight and Bing Maps for Enterprise, to create a new tool called Spotlight.

Read the full post on David Chou’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/archive/2009/07/07/silverlight-and-bing-maps-used-at-grubb-ellis.aspx

Archstone Apartments Leverages WPF and Live Maps for Kiosks

dpeuswr — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:02:58 GMT

One of the customers that I have worked with for quite some time is Archstone. They are a top notch organization that have done a lot of interesting things with technology do set themselves apart in the apartment management space. Recently they just completed a rollout of a kiosk based solution for prospective residents that is really impressive.

Read the full article on Joe Shirey’s blog at http://www.joeshirey.com/2009/06/17/ArchstoneApartmentsLeveragesWPFAndLiveMapsForKiosks.aspx

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Silverlight and Bing Maps Used at Grubb & Ellis

Archstone Apartments Leverages WPF and Live Maps for Kiosks