SaaS and data centralization: What you need to know
With data—and the insights that it can deliver—driving the modern economy, data centralization should be a priority for all companies, including commercial real estate (CRE) ...
Posts by The Rockport Group
Five reasons why data and cloud services are made for each other
We’ve discussed why it’s so important to keep hold of and refine your own data. And we’ve looked at cloud computing, and why true cloud-enabled products and services will power ...
Why open ecosystems are key to CRE value creation
Plumbing. It’s not sexy and we only think about it when something goes wrong. But without it, we’d be up to our necks. (I probably don’t need to finish that sentence!)
Don't let the sunk cost fallacy trap you into outdated technology
We’ve all likely fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy at one time or another. Perhaps we have continued to watch a movie we hated all the way to the end because we already paid ...
Why is it important for CRE professionals to know when cloud computing is not cloud computing?
Cloud computing. Sounds fluffy, nebulous, and something best left for the techies? Not so. In fact, far from being an ephemeral technology trend we’ll all soon forget about, Cloud ...
How To Stop Doing Bad Data Deals & What To Do Instead
If data is modern day oil (we wrote about this here), then currently we’re at the start of a data rush! Data, at scale, and the insights we can derive from it, is going to be a ...
Why The CRE Industry Should Stop Giving Away Its Oil
You’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase “data is the new oil”. It refers to the driving force of the digital economy being data, as compared to the oil that powered (and still powers) ...