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Leading Provider of Workplace Management Solutions Sponsors Conference That Examines the Role of Technology in Real Estate and the Workplace
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts—May 5, 2010—PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace, resource, and energy management technology, will be a featured sponsor and participant at WORKTECH10, a one-day conference examining the themes of smarter cities, smarter buildings, and the global workplace. The event, taking place May 19 at the Time and Life Building in New York City, will bring together the worlds of real estate, design, architecture and technology to look at the future of the city, real estate, the workplace, work, and innovation.
PeopleCube will be joined at WORKTECH10 by partners Jones Land LaSalle, Johnson Controls, Regus, and Manhattan Centerstone. They, along with leading global speakers, will discuss the trends that will change the nature of how and where work takes place, how organizations can work together to build a smarter planet, and how technology is redefining the ‘workscape’.
During the conference, PeopleCube will be showcasing Energy Resource Scheduler, an integrated energy management solution from PeopleCube and partner Building Sustainability Ltd., a subsidiary of WORKTECH10 host Cordless Group. PeopleCube will also present its alternative workspace solutions and PeopleCounter, the industry’s only occupancy-detection solution, which helps organizations reduce real estate costs by tracking actual versus planned space utilization.
“We are thrilled to be joining Philip Ross and others from the Cordless Group team at WORKTECH10 in New York,” said PeopleCube president and CEO John T. Anderson. “The workplace continues to evolve, with greater emphasis placed on real estate cost reductions, accommodating the mobile worker, and supporting sustainability efforts. We look forward to showing how our workplace management solutions and those from other participating companies are leading the way to support changing organizational needs.”
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To learn more and register for WORKTECH10, visit http://www.unwired.eu.com/wt10ny.html.
Major Customer Wins, New Product Releases, and Continued Growth in Subscription Service Contribute to Successful Start to 2010 for Provider of Workspace Management Technology
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts—April 27, 2010—PeopleCube, provider of intelligent workplace, resource, and energy management technology, today announced that it has recently concluded a highly successful business quarter in which it realized significant growth led by the adoption of its alternative workspace and space utilization solutions by several Fortune 500 firms. The company also launched a significant release of its flagship workspace management product, Resource Scheduler, during the quarter and maintained steady growth of its subscription service.
“Given today’s uncertain economic climate, we take special pride in the early success we’ve achieved in 2010,” said John T. Anderson, president and CEO of PeopleCube. “Over the years our customers have increasingly relied on us to provide the services and solutions that help them control costs and maximize productivity. The consistent adoption of our workplace management technology, particularly alternative workspace and real estate management during Q1, is further testament to the solid ROI our solutions provide.”
Sustained Growth Through Enterprise Expansion and Customer Retention
During Q1, PeopleCube signed a number of new enterprise accounts, including several Fortune 500 firms. Some of these customers turned to PeopleCube’s solutions for help in managing their alternative workspace initiatives, while others are implementing PeopleCounter, the industry’s first occupancy detection technology, to measure and monitor actual versus planned space utilization.
Many of the new customers—several of which are subscription service sites—selected PeopleCube’s solutions to replace competing products. Notably, even as PeopleCube increased its market share at its competitors’ expense, the company continued to maintain a customer retention rate of more than 97 percent.
Pushing the Boundaries of Workplace Management through Technological Innovation
During the first quarter of 2010, PeopleCube delivered the most comprehensive release in the history of its flagship workplace management solution, Resource Scheduler. The release featured a number of enhancements, bringing to the market such offerings as Lotus Notes integration, a new mobile interface, tools for visitor and event management, and simplified booking and reservation capabilities using interactive floor plans.
PeopleCube also continued to showcase PeopleCounter, a real estate management solution that provides companies with the ability to track actual versus planned space utilization by automatically capturing the number of people entering and exiting a scheduled space. This ability gives valuable insight into how space is actually being used. It enables organizations to analyze vital real estate occupancy and utilization trends to better manage current and future real estate costs.
“It is our goal to be consistently at the forefront of integrated workplace management technology,” said Anderson. “Most of our product enhancements follow our unique ‘User-Centered Design’ approach, which relies on the direct customer feedback that we receive through our innovative Online Customer Care Center. By listening intently to the needs of our customers and prospects, we are able to deliver the type of solutions and services that address the growing demands of their ever-evolving, complex work environment.”
About PeopleCube
PeopleCube provides intelligent on-demand workplace management solutions that help customers cut real estate, meeting services, travel, and energy costs based on actual workspace usage. Through its corporate headquarters in Framingham, Massachusetts, and offices throughout the world, PeopleCube supports 7,500 customers in small, medium, and large enterprises. More information is available at www.peoplecube.com.
PeopelCube today announced that market-leading global information services and publishing company Wolters Kluwer has chosen the Resource Scheduler intelligent workspace management solution to help deploy and manage its alternative workspace programs including shared office-space environments.
“Wolters Kluwer clearly recognizes the benefits that can be gleaned from alternative workspace programs, including reducing real-estate, energy, and commuting costs and increasing employee loyalty and productivity by providing flexible and family-friendly workplaces,” said John T. Anderson, PeopleCube’s CEO. “PeopleCube is delighted to provide the technological solutions and consulting services that enable Wolters Kluwer to systematize policies, encourage adherence, monitor resource usage, and in general manage alternative workspaces and programs so that they perform to the company’s advantage.”
Due Diligence and Pilot Program Point to PeopleCube Solutions
Specifically, Wolters Kluwer chose PeopleCube’s Resource Scheduler for Outlook®/Exchange®, a product that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Outlook to enable users to schedule resources from within Outlook, an environment with which the Wolters Kluwer staff is already familiar.
“We did our due diligence, reviewing market research and talking to other large enterprise customers,” said Dave Barban, director of corporate real estate for Wolters Kluwer. “Not only was PeopleCube the recommended solution, but they ran a ‘try before you buy’ pilot for us. The success of the pilot demonstrated that Resource Scheduler did indeed stand up to our workspace management requirements.”
Wolters Kluwer is using Resource Scheduler in conjunction with Steelcase’s RoomWizard display technology to enable employees to view room scheduling information on line and to book space either on site or remotely, at any time—without having to rely on dedicated staff to manage and monitor scheduling and use.
To ensure quick, easy, and secure on-site check-in for their alternative workspace environment, Wolters Kluwer has implemented PeopleCube’s Kiosk software, which enables employees to check in and out of their office reservations simply by swiping their security badges through a card reader located on or near a kiosk in a lobby.
Enabling Alternative Workspace
The company plans to use Resource Scheduler in a variety of ways. One of the first projects is a deployment in Wolters Kluwer’s Manhattan offices that have recently been built out and renovated expressly to support mobile workers. Ultimately Wolters Kluwer intends to implement alternate workspace programs in all applicable locations throughout its North American operations.
To ensure a smooth implementation and deployment of its alternative workspace projects, Wolters Kluwer purchased technical and business consulting services from PeopleCube, which were provided by PeopleCube both remotely and on site.
PeopleCube recently announced a new version of it's on-demand workplace management solution, Resource Scheduler. This new version is designed to make life easier for Lotus Notes users, mobile workers, and event planners through strong reporting and exceptional ease of use, while rendering alternative workspace and resource management more effective and efficient than ever before.
“In creating Resource Scheduler 9.0, we listened to customers and prospects, analyzed support calls, and performed usability testing to hone in on specific needs in terms of scheduling, services, and resource management,” said John T. Anderson, CEO of PeopleCube. “We term this ‘User-Centered Design’, and it is what enabled us to achieve the streamlined workflows and intuitive graphical user interface that are evident throughout Resource Scheduler 9.0.”
In a world where many more companies are implementing alternative workspace programs, employees increasingly need to perform business activities while in transit. Mobile workers expect applications and information to be available when they want them and on the device of their choice. Accordingly, Resource Scheduler 9.0 includes a mobile phone interface, rich web capabilities, and integration with personal calendaring systems such as Outlook.
With Resource Scheduler 9.0, mobile workers can use web-enabled mobile devices to find and book available workspace and meeting rooms, and to check in and out of space they’ve reserved in advance. These real-time web-based capabilities avoid the conflicts inherent in sync-based booking methods.
To make it easier for workers to reserve and check into office facilities such as work spaces and meeting rooms—and for management to stay on top of space usage—Resource Scheduler 9.0 enables users to search for and schedule workspace directly from an interactive floor plan using any standard browser.
The same floor plans that are used in Resource Scheduler to integrate with reservation kiosks can now be accessed in a streamlined web interface, providing the space reservation simplicity needed to accelerate alternative workspace program acceptance. By providing the unique ability to view and schedule meeting rooms and other workspace using these floor plans, Resource Scheduler helps users find the space they need, by location, quickly and easily based on proximity to coworkers, meeting space, or other criteria, further enhancing collaboration and employee efficiency.
“Collaboration remains a vital element in the success of any business, especially given today’s modern mobile worker,” said Anderson. “The key is providing the infrastructure to facilitate that collaboration. Resource Scheduler 9.0’s innovative floor-plan functionality adds an entirely new dimension to scheduling shared workspace, making it easier for employees to find the right space in the right place at the right time.”
Resource Scheduler 9.0’s visitor management functionality allows personnel staffing a front desk to track the arrival and departure of visitors and to print badges by location (so, for example, the UK receptionist does not have the ability to print a visitor badge for the Manhattan office). Enabling employees to register visitors in advance gives organizations better knowledge of, and more control over, who is at their location at any given time and who is expected to arrive in the future.
“How visitors are greeted in the front lobby says a lot about an organization,” said Anderson. “Resource Scheduler 9.0 gives front-desk personnel a handle on who’s about to walk through the door, making it easier to greet visitors in a gracious and professional manner, while offering the security of knowing who is in the building at any given time.”
While there are only a limited number of event planners in any given organization, the meetings they organize are usually the most visible and important. Resource Scheduler 9.0 lets event planners set up new events, capture critical event-related information, book resources, and make changes with a few simple clicks. It makes it possible to store detailed information about each event, provides better visibility into daily activities, and streamlines the workflow for creating new events.
Resource Scheduler 9.0 is designed to make event management as quick and easy as possible for event planners. For example, the daily activity view lets event planners review daily event activities at a glance and filter them by status and service orders. This view can be reserved for event planners or opened up to the entire organization. In addition, Resource Scheduler 9.0 gives event planners the ability to look up hosts from prior events, and to assign and track the status of events.
Tracking event costs and providing details to event hosts is the final component of planning an event. To help organizations answer the basic but critical question “How much did our event cost?,” Resource Scheduler 9.0 enables event planners to consolidate event orders in a single, printable view, including all resources, services, and costs associated with the event.
Above all, Resource Scheduler is a scheduling software solution for managing workspace, resources, and facilities. To support the ever-more-critical need to understand actual real estate utilization, Resource Scheduler 9.0 includes a new reporting system that allows users to save frequently run reports so they can be easily launched in the future. It also allows administrators to add new reports and organize existing reports into similar groups. Users appreciate the detailed report summaries and the ability to preview reports before running them.
For more information about Resource Scheduler’s extensive workplace scheduling, planning, and reporting capabilities, visit http://www.peoplecube.com/products-resource-scheduler.htm.
PeopleCube today announced that it is concluding a highly successful business year in which it saw record sales of its flagship product, Resource Scheduler; increased its subscription service by 100 percent; delivered innovative technology; won a number of Fortune 1000 customers; and formed numerous partnerships.
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As John Anderson, President and CEO of PeopleCube said, “The reason industry-leading firms from various market segments are adopting our innovative workplace management technology is that our products and associated consulting services provide solid ROI. In a year when companies have been forced to consolidate operations and control costs, our sustained growth, particularly in our subscription business, is a testament to the overall value that our solutions provide both in the short and long term.”
Highlighting PeopleCube’s success in 2009, the company signed several new enterprise accounts, including 33 Fortune 1000 firms and such household names as Merck Pharmaceuticals, Thomson Reuters, Carnival Cruise Lines, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deutsche Bank. A significant number of new customer deals involved replacing competing products. While PeopleCube was increasing its market share at its competitors’ expense, it succeeded in maintaining a client retention rate of greater than 97 percent.
Pushing Technology Forward
Throughout 2009, PeopleCube continued to introduce innovative, industry-leading technology, bringing to market offerings such as:
Adding Value Through Partnerships
PeopleCube’s relationship with CountWise, which helped bring about the PeopleCounter solution, is one example of the partnership approach PeopleCube leverages to extend the value of PeopleCube’s solutions for its customers. In all during 2009, PeopleCube forged partnerships with more than 10 organizations that are leaders in their respective fields.
Other significant partnerships formed during the past year include relationships with AMX, Crestron, and Tandberg, which enable customers to more efficiently manage rooms and telepresence systems; IBM/Maximo to help customers manage asset lifecycle and other maintenance needs; and a relationship with Stegmeier Consulting Group to facilitate change management for flex work and other alternative work environments.
Looking Toward a Bright Future
Looking ahead, Anderson said, “The future is bright for 2010 and beyond. This year we laid the groundwork for releasing a new version of Resource Scheduler early in 2010 that will feature a new user interface, event and visitor management capabilities, mobile access, new enterprise reports, and enhanced workflow to improve ease of use. This latest development effort is designed to further increase efficiency and effectiveness by accommodating the changing needs of our core constituents, facility managers and executives with responsibility for maximizing the use of corporate real estate.”
PeopleCube will be conducting a series of webinars focusing on the topic of capturing the actual utilization of space. These webinars are driven by the need for corporate real estate executives, human resource executives, facilities managers and others to identify more than simply how their shared workspace, conference rooms and other real estate are being scheduled but rather if they are actually being used.
More companies are mandating cost reductions and because real estate is typically an organizations largest expense after payroll, that has become a target area. The challenge has long been "how can I reduce my real estate costs if I don't know how that space is being used?" In fact it is not uncommon for companies to think they need to expand their real estate overhead because people within the organization claim conference rooms are constantly booked or alternative workspace is typically unavailable.
These webinars are designed to showcase the value of understanding the true utilization of real estate. Using the right real estate scheduling, occupancy detection, and utilization analysis tools, attendees will learn not only how to avoid making unnecessary real estate acquisitions, but maximize the full value of the real estate you already have. It is now easy to capture actual utilization of space.
Titled Capturing Actual Utilization of Space: Uncovering the "Holy Grail" of Real Estate Management, these webinars are currently scheduled for November 4th at 11:00 am EST and November 10th at 2:00 pm EST. For more information or to register, visit http://www.peoplecube.com/live-capturing-actual-use-space-webinar-registration.htm.
PeopleCube today announced that they have formed a partnership to deliver a real-estate management and measurement solution called PeopleCounter.
PeopleCounter enables customers to schedule shared workspace and other corporate assets, track actual utilization of that space with the CountWise Video Imaging/Shape Recognition technology, and measure and analyze the resulting data to discover actual versus planned space utilization. By implementing PeopleCounter, customers are able to understand how real estate is being utilized in order to make educated, cost-saving decisions regarding their real-estate overhead.
The PeopleCounter solution utilizes the I-Count™ people-counting technology from CountWise. With greater than 95% accuracy, this stand-alone video based counting system is the most accurate and dependable product available worldwide. I-Count delivers multi-zone, bi-directional pedestrian traffic counting by combining shape recognition and motion detection in a robust and affordable product.
PeopleCounter integrates I-Count with PeopleCube’s alternative workspace and resource management solution, Resource Scheduler, and Workplace BI, the industry’s first workspace business intelligence tool for tracking and analyzing real-estate utilization. Customers first use Resource Scheduler to schedule shared workspace and other corporate assets, then I-Count automatically tracks the number of people entering and exiting the scheduled space. The people-counting information is then fed into Workplace BI, where the data is analyzed and measured.
The end result is more than just data, but rather valuable, actionable real-estate utilization information that enables customers, for the first time, to track and analyze not just planned real estate utilization, but actual real estate utilization. It’s this actual utilization information that makes it possible for customers to make educated decisions on how to effectively manage their real estate portfolio.
Check it out at http://www.peoplecube.com/products-peoplecounter.htm.
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) has announced a new roster of officers. Their first meeting, as part of the upcoming Roundtable XVI, will be at Apple, Inc. headquarters in Cupertino, California from October 7-9.
Gary Schwartz, Director of Communications & Middleware Technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, assumes the role of President. A 25-year veteran of higher education IT, he also chairs CalConnect’s Freebusy Technical Committee and co-authored “CalConnect EDST Reflections and Recommendations.”
Pat Egen continues as Chairman of the Board. She has been in the field of computers for over 28 years, working in IT Management for Ryder System in Miami and Unum Provident in Chattanooga. In 1997 she started Patricia Egen Consulting, an IBM Business partner.
Kellie Hunter was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Her career spans nearly 20 years in the high tech industry with a focus on developing innovative, dynamic software for large-scale enterprise deployments. As the Director of Product Management at PeopleCube, she manages the development of all product lines.
Dave Thewlis, executive director of CalConnect, continues as secretary. He has been involved in computing and information technology for 40 years. Though his consulting firm, he has served a number of large vendors and customer organizations. His positions with SHARE, the oldest computer user organization, have included Director, Vice President and Chief Standards Officer.
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organizational members are Apple, Cabo Communications, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, IceWarp, Intand, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, NASA, neutralSpace, New York University, Notify Technology, Oracle, Patricia Egen Consulting, PeopleCube, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, SWAMI (Swedish Alliance for Middleware Infrastructure), Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, University of California, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo!/Zimbra, and ZideOne.
PeopleCube today announced that five global Fortune 500 corporations have recently chosen PeopleCube as their workplace management software vendor of choice. These leaders of their respective industry segments are leveraging PeopleCube’s technology to manage alternative workspace, gain a greater understanding of their operations through workplace business intelligence, and facilitate their employees’ efficient and cost-effective use of shared workspace.
“Savvy enterprises know they can reduce real-estate and energy costs with PeopleCube’s on-demand alternative workspace, resource, and facility management software solutions,” said John T. Anderson, CEO of PeopleCube. “Recently five major corporations independently evaluated PeopleCube’s technology and selected our products because of their ground-breaking capabilities in workspace management and workplace business intelligence. It’s an honor to have our innovative, cost-saving solutions validated by these stellar organizations.”
Great Minds Think Alike
Following are descriptions of the Fortune 500 companies, their considerations when evaluating workspace management solutions, and their plans for leveraging the PeopleCube technology selected:
Five major corporations in five very different industry segments all recognized that they could benefit from PeopleCube’s Resource Scheduler and associated solutions and services. To see how your company might take advantage of PeopleCube’s solutions for managing alternative workspace, real-estate utilization, energy, and other resources, go to www.peoplecube.com.
I am the president and CEO of PeopleCube, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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