Whether your company is considering a new technology master plan or simply assessing the possibility of adding or replacing a single point solution, Loci offer a full range of services to simplify the process, assess the risk profile and reduce the internal cost of evaluation. Most importantly, with Loci you can be confident that the evaluation process and final technology plan are in alignment with your core business initiatives and best industry standards.

We know the effort it takes to evaluate and plan for new technology. It requires specialised information and skillsets that are often not available or are limited in many companies. Some of the areas of critical value are in identifying technology trending, creating requirements, managing the selection process and writing a comprehensive technology plan.

At Loci, tracking technology trending is part of our core business. We keep abreast of the ever changing technology landscape and peer trending both locally and globally. In addition, Loci provide the added value of having an independent advisor to help in time consuming and one off tasks like creating a requirements matrix and creating/managing the evaluation process. We have the experience and tools to streamline and facilitate a creative, cost effective solution to suit your specific business initiatives.

Finally, it’s important to understand how any new point solution fits into the master technology plan. The complexity of the technology roadmap continues to increase with the introduction of new technology integration points, outsourcing and deployment options. These opportunities coupled with more innovative business strategies make the master technology plan a key element in procuring, managing and evaluating technology. Loci are a cost effective resource to help you create or integrate a robust and sustainable plan as an important executive management tool for your business.

We find that there is real benefit to reviewing the current environment from time to time. Increasing productivity is often identified as the single best cost cutting mechanism. It’s easy to make the assumption that because we have a great business tool, that it must be creating time savings and value to our company. However, problems common to many businesses create roadblocks to gleaning the expected value such as:

• Low user uptake
• Undocumented processes
• Disparate procedures
• Unknown or misunderstood features
• Staff turnover
• Uninstalled modules; security rights to modules/features

When Loci are engaged to perform a systems audit, we review the technology solution and practice in context to industry leading solution/practice. In addition, we can tailor our comprehensive written analysis to facilitate:

• Documenting the current process(es)
• Evaluating efficiency and automation opportunities
• Evaluating the cost/benefit of upgrading to a new version
• Evaluating data integrity at critical integration points or for reporting
• Meeting current or anticipated statutory requirements

This can be a cost effective service in conjunction with our Business Process Engineering/ Improvement option.

The design of the process is as impactful as the choice of the technology tool. With today’s technology, we’re seeing substantial gains in efficiency and automation that can offer quick wins and impressive measurable results.

Business process engineering may be based on best possible practice given current technology or allow for potential implementation of new or complementary technology to increase productivity, impose appropriate controls, or reduce risk. With the availability of inexpensive process improvement technologies with low touch implementation models, it’s not uncommon to see short term ROI on technology investments that complement the business process improvement engagement.

In either configuration, Loci’s team of results driven professionals will bring a plethora of expertise in leading industry practices, technical expertise in customisation and technology integration, global real estate technology trending and their former real estate career expertise to the engagement. We’re confident that the best practice for your company will be developed when all of these external factors are reviewed in conjunction with your corporate vision and culture, technology footprint and business lifecycle. Finally, we can also offer affordable training and documentation services to complement the project if required.

At Loci, our project management philosophy is that it’s about the people as much as it’s about measuring the process and delivering a successful outcome. While project management is a results driven service, finesse is a quintessential component to our effective practice. We cultivate core technical strengths and business skills like problem solving, creative thinking, negotiating and the art of anticipation with our staff.

Loci offer standard project based services including creating project plans, managing simple to complex projects, and providing executive dashboard updates to deliver on time and on budget. In addition, we can provide independent oversight to an internally managed project or project audit services if required.

Implementation design and delivery are essential elements to technology adoption. Loci collaborate with your organisation every step of the way from concept through completion. We offer a range of services to complement your staff including project management, business process engineering, change management, training, data input, data migration, integration and customisation.

Successful user adoption incorporates all of these elements into an implementation strategy. The art of change management is often ignored and misunderstood as simply training on a new process or procedure. Loci Solutions provide the support to design an effective change management plan that includes your corporate culture, project objectives, a communication strategy, and methods to overcome typical barriers to change before they cause project delays and cost overruns.

Whether you require short term off-site data input services or an additional temporary staff member to work on-site, Loci have professionals with real estate and financial backgrounds to help.

Loci Solutions offer a full range of training services that translate into new levels of productivity and understanding of today’s technology tools. We have developed a comprehensive training curriculum to address one on one or group training delivered via web or classroom settings for system users, support and development staff.

Training can be designed to deliver a variety of objectives including introducing standard software functionality, establishing new business process rules, reviewing existing standard procedures or introducing new customisations.

Our classes are dynamic and comprehensive. We offer a variety of well- established standard training course outlines. Alternatively, we can assess objectives and attendee profiles to develop an engaging and unique offering. Our innovative approach may include both structured learning sessions, such as problem solving workshops with real life examples, lectures or practical hands on exercises. We can also facilitate unstructured sessions like Q&A or lessons learnt discussions.

Loci Solutions will work with each client to ensure that measurable results are delivered for each course. Standard or custom documentation and course exercises may be included or we can use your company’s internal training tools if desired.

Loci offer a full service menu of customisation services including data migration, report writing and custom application development.

We believe our people and our attitude towards development make the difference. Our professional technical staff has relevant real estate industry and accounting experience to supplement best development practice. They combine this real world experience with a business savvy design approach to create practical solutions for complex requirements. Finally, we understand that customised solutions require superior quality assurance and reliable on-time delivery.

In addition, Loci offer professional services to supplement clients’ existing resources from design/development best practice consultation to creating QA plans to overseeing internal/outsourced programming efforts. This service is a cost effective way to bring the benefit of our combined 25 years of real estate technology report writing and application development experience to ensure a comprehensive successful outcome.

Our organisation is built on our reputation for high quality, reliable support. We believe it is important to understand your business, financial accounting standards, the real estate industry and the technology that serves it to provide the level of support our clients have come to expect.

Loci provide an array of support options to serve each client’s requirements. Our highly skilled professional staff can assist you with technical questions, “what if” scenarios, problem solving, accounting or process oriented issues.