CEAC-2020-11-November

Aquicore Launches Major New Feature
Aimed at Improving Collaboration
Across Commercial Real Estate
Portfolios
WASHINGTON — Aquicore, a leading platform for digitizing
real estate operations and optimizing buildings, has announced
a new set of features and enhancements to its suite
of cloud-based tools for commercial real estate professionals.
The newest release, which includes features for project management,
collaboration and reporting, helps property teams
to understand and easily convey the impact of their onsite
activities across different operational considerations such as
energy, spend, comfort and more.
A key challenge for property teams and executives is the
ability to seamlessly work together to identify, prioritize and
report on high-value operational improvements. By serving
as a single repository for all capital and operational projects
and energy conservation measures across a portfolio and
intelligently linking actions to outcomes, Aquicore’s project
feature improves users’ ability to plan and manage projects
for maximum impact and communicate that impact to stakeholders.
“The features we added to the Aquicore platform this quarter
all help CRE teams pinpoint exactly what should be acted
upon to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs,”
said Mike Donovan, senior vice president of product at Aquicore.
“At a time when the world is in a constant state of flux
and there is a high level of uncertainty about the future, CRE
teams are operating with increasingly limited resources and
can’t always be onsite to oversee major project milestones.
Our platform’s new features ensure that teams can more
intelligently manage and report on their efforts and leverage
new opportunities for improvements as they emerge, which
will help quickly return buildings to normal operations after
any kind of disruption.”
In addition to serving as a home for tracking and managing
all post-construction operational projects, Aquicore offers
an AI-powered project recommendation engine as part of
its professional license tier that continually identifies new
projects for onsite property teams. Using machine learning
and requiring no hardware installation, it scans building data
from a variety of sources like utility interval data, bills and
meters, building management systems, submeters and ENER-
GYSTAR to provide recommendations and actionable tasks,
saving beta customers an estimated $2.8 million in 3 months.
Aquicore’s new AI-powered features enhance project management, collaboration
and reporting of operational improvements for CRE portfolio and
property teams.
Key new features and updates to the Aquicore platform
include:
• Project Management Tools: CRE teams can manage, execute
on, and track the complete lifecycle of every energy
and facility project, from assigning personnel to defining
due dates and priorities.
• Collaboration Tools: In-platform communication features
allow CRE teams to easily share information, add notes
and photos, attach documents, tag other users, collaborate
with outside experts, and keep all team members
on the same page.
• Impact Estimates: The estimated impact of energy and
facility projects across top operating objectives are calculated
so teams can easily prioritize.
• Impact Reports: One-click summary reports that are
instantly ready to be shared with stakeholders easily
and accurately convey the resolution rate and impact of
projects and building events.
• Hardware-Free Enablement: The project recommendation
engine is compatible with utility interval data direct
from utility providers, requiring no hardware setup.
For more information about the release, visit
aquicore.com/projects.
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