What’s New in Version 1.8

• Ability to touch individual spaces in plans to view associated description, photography and/or documents!
• Enhanced PDF reader with presentation style page flipping (use the settings to turn it on)
• More improvements for Resync – Syncs more quickly and more reliably!
• Redesigned toolbar user interface
• New in-app settings menu
• New folder button to get quick access to your Collections
• Full screen support for Interactive Map and Photos
• Feedback Button – Send us a note and let us know what you think and how we can improve!
• Greatly improved image quality when rendering site plans while zoomed out
• Custom property overview page banners
• Apple Maps support (don’t worry, we still have the old maps from Google/Microsoft too.)
• Documents can now be grouped into folders
• “Share” button – easily send people the entire package for a property! (includes tracking support in the admin, too)
• Custom home screen layouts
• Custom demographics tables
• iOS 6 compatibility improvements
• Performance improvements and bug fixes

The Digie awards, short for Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation, are awards for digital excellence to highlight those companies and individuals who have been working to transform and advance real estate operations with technology, automation and innovation.

The Digie Awards will be presented to the winners on Wednesday, June 13th, during the Realcomm & IBcon 2012 Conferences in Las Vegas.

The Realcomm conference brings together commercial, corporate, institutional and government real estate professionals to explore the latest technology tools and innovations available to this industry. This is definitely a conference worth attending.

The award ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the Exhibit Floor and will be broadcast at Conference LIVE. Join us to congratulate the finalists and the winner for 2012
Visit booth 222 at RealComm for a free demo of the Property Capsule

Markson explained the paradigm shift from traditionally deployed servers to cloud computing, and how anyone can virtually create a massive data center in the cloud using services such as Amazon’s Elastic Web Services platform.

He explained how this new way of storing information has opened new avenues for deal-making through a rapid improvement in available technology, and how the iPad is the poster child for a new generation of cloud services.

Agents and Brokers can easily access information such as site plans on any device including the iPad by storing all of their information in generalized cloud based services such as Dropbox, Google Docs and of course our favorite tailor-made solution: Property Capsule.

The audience agreed that cloud based infrastructure is the way of the future, but had concerns about security.

One audience member asked specifically about Dropbox– if all your information exists in the cloud, who can access it? Where is the cloud? How is it encrytped?

The simple answer is services, such as Dropbox have a high level of encryption that is very similar to the military. On the other hand, users have to be aware of with whom they share their information and what level of access they have. Also, the beauty of accessing your information on any device anywhere is that you can retrieve your information even when the device is lost. Unfortunately that means that your information is left out there on that device. In this case, the user will have to log in and change passwords, so others can’t access their information.

Another valid concern is the stability of some cloud-based services, such as Dropbox. What if Dropbox goes out of business, where will my information go? How can I retrieve it?

The simple answer of course is to read the terms of agreement of whatever services you are using. What are the contingency plans, if such an event were to occur? If you still have concerns, it’s never too late to backup your information. A lot of the more reputable services allow users to download and store their information remotely. This is a feature that Facebook currently has for users who no longer want to use Facebook, but want to keep their photos and other data. Property Capsule has a similar feature for downloading a ZIP file of your content.

Click here to view the deck from the presentation and check back here for a full video.

Stirling Properties were also boasting kiosks, with many people touching and swiping away at the screens to check out their properties before walking in for their appointments.

KLNB hosted our booth at RECon 2012 and all of their Brokers and Agents were using the Property Capsule iPad App to show their property portfolios. They also had two touch screen monitors setup at their entrance, to show attendees who were walking by without an appointment their property portfolios.

In Social Media and Technology pavilion, Peterson Companies Director of Communications, Angela Sweeney shared her expertise in Social Media: Who to connect with, why, where and how. Angela shared twitter accounts that she follows, such as @GlobeStcom and other great sources in Commercial Real Estate. She also shared the do’s and don’ts of connecting with Journalists on Facebook. All in All, A great crash course.

We still have iPads to give away, so please remember to stop by our booth at RECon12.

On Tuesday, May 22nd at noon, Property Capsule CEO, Alex Markson, will be demystifying the cloud with a crash course on Cloud technology and the paradigm shift in deal-making. This is a course you don’t want to miss.

See you there!

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Acadia will be using the kiosk and the iPad App for a second year.  Jones Lang LaSalle is also using our kiosk module with two of these displays on their booth walls, next to their waterfall feature. Their booth layout and use of kiosks this year is going to be really impressive, so be sure to check it out!  Veteran subscriber, DLC, true deal-making technology junkies, will be using Property Capsule for the fifth year in Vegas!  Forest City will also be on the system for the second year at RECon. Phillip Edison Company will also feature built-in touch screen kiosks and the iPad App.  Some of the other Subscribers using the platform are newcomers Gatlin Development, Ashkenazy, Thor, Peterson and Stirling Properties.    And last but not least, there’s KLNB Retail, our design partners on our latest round of mapping technology innovation.  We will have a Property Capsule genius bar set up at their booth, giving away free iPads and doing demos!  We

Keep an eye out! Property Capsule will be all over Vegas this year.  It’s what hot on the streets right now.

Be sure to stop by these booths at ICSC RECon 2012 to see all of their interactive leasing portfolio goodies.

It’s imperative that you upgrade today to take advantage of all the Admin functionality, so download Property Capsule from the App store today and be ready for RECon 2012

We will be deploying the new admin functions today that will allow you to take advantage of multiple site plans, etc. and you will want to make sure all your iPads are ready to handle it before you run your next Publish!

Don’t worry and don’t panic, nothing will explode on its own! But if you turn on multiple site plans, next time you run publish you want to make SURE all your iPad users have the latest version.   Plus they will get access to all the other goodies we’ve added in this last update

As always, give us a shout if you have any questions!!

This version also boasts new admin features, which enables you to list multiple site plans, and use multiple agents.  We’ve also rebuilt the kiosk software from the ground up, to include live maps and email support.  It’s approximately 400%  more awesome (estimates vary), and we couldn’t be happier with the new functionality.  Here’s a complete list of the features, with a few screenshots:

Tours and Meetings
• Map targeted markets and proposed spaces
• Measure demographics by highlighting areas of the map
• Measure distances between points
• Automatically look-up geolocation data from unlimited third-party sources
• Highlight competition
• Toggle points of interest by category
• Draw and write notations right on the map
• Add location specific photos and notes to the map
• Create a PDF of the entire tour

Space details
• Add photos, notes, and documents to each space on your site plan

Multiple site plans per property
• Add multiple site plans for multi-floor properties

Property Versioning
• Create alternative or one-off property profiles for specific leasing opportunities
• Keep the official profile flagged for general use in the Property Capsule