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H&H Investment and Development Goes Live on Yardi Voyager® 7S »

SinoGulf Adopt Yardi Voyager® as their Asset & Property Management Software »

BNY Mellon's Alternative Investment Services Choose Yardi »

Chainbow Selects Yardi Voyager for Residential Property Management » 

Product & Technology News
Mobile – Enabled CRMs Grow Revenue and Value »

Yardi News
Yardi Hosting Client Conferences in Australia, Asia and Europe »

IndustryTrends
Yardi's Regional Director, Said Haider, Interview with Gulf Property »

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SAVE THE DATE! YASC Middle East - 9th & 10th March 2016 »

Yardi Takes Bronze Sponsorship for 4th Time at RECon Middle East »

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Industry Trends

Yardi's Regional Director, Said Haider, Interview with Gulf Property

Middle East's premier lifestyle, real estate and construction publication Gulf Property, has recently interviewed Yardi's Regional Director, Said Haider, on the involvement and positive impact of Yardi's services in the regions property management market.

The publication states that Yardi has made a 'strong foray in the UAE markets with its flagship products' and suggests that these products that are 'making a difference in the way its clients manage assets and facilities'.

Said Haider speaks of Yardi's impressive client base, values, and products in the interview.

Gulf Property: How do you position Yardi in the real estate management market?

Said Haider: Yardi is a privately held company established in 1984 in Santa Barbara, California, and has been dedicated, over those 30+ years, in the design, development, and support of real estate investment management and property management software.

Gulf Property: Please tell us about Yardi's flagship product, Voyager® 7S

Said Haider: Voyager is an end-to-end property and financial management platform for office, retail, and residential real estate, automating processes with role-based dashboards, workflows, critical date notifications, and analytics.

Enabling faster and more efficient execution of property operation strategies, Voyager helps drive improve analysis and decision-making and delivers maximum transparency across your business.

The Voyager suite solutions also include sales CRM, Commercial LeasingPad, Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting, Facilities Management, Procure to Pay, and tenant and resident portals.

Gulf Property: Could you talk about Yardi Commercial LeasingPad, and how it works?

Said Haider: Yardi Commercial LeasingPad is an easy-to-use, tablet based solution that provides property managers and leasing agents with access to real-time prospect, tenant, and property information.

Yardi Commercial LeasingPad automates the leasing process from lead generation through to proposal creation and lease execution. It helps our clients shorten the leasing lifecycle and drive greater efficiency with a fully mobile solution.

Gulf Property: What type of clients does Yardi have in the Middle East, and what type of real estate do they manage or hold?

Said Haider: Our clients range from residential blocks to offices, private equity, asset and property service companies to government-linked companies, and some of the largest owners and developers of shopping centres in the Middle East. Clients use Voyager to manage real estate assets across the Middle East and North Africa including: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

Gulf Property: TDIC, master developer of tourism resources in Abu Dhabi, is among the entities that have chosen Yardi in the Middle East. What were their reasons for selecting Yardi software?

Said Haider: Yardi's 30 years of experience in real estate software really helps set us apart. Our prospects and clients are looking to partner with company that is a real estate domain expert, rather than a broad based ERP software provider.

Yardi client Matar Al Qamzi, Chief Information Officer at TDIC said, "TDIC's IT vision is to automate the business operations by implementing latest tools and technology. As part of that strategic initiative, we partnered with Yardi for our Asset Management business systems."

Gulf Property: What features of Yardi's software are especially attractive to the Middle East clients in comparison to that of your competitors?

Said Haider: Yardi has spent a lot of time working with real estate companies operating in the Middle East. In turn, we've built the identified requirements into Voyager as core functionality. The Yardi Voyager platform provides our clients with a localised leasing process and controls tenancy contracts and renewal notices per the local law, enhanced Post-Dated-Cheque controls, credit control mechanisms (Inclusive of un-cleared PDC's) and many others.

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