April 2020 | Dallas, Texas – PRNewswire RealFoundations, the world’s foremost provider of management consulting solutions and managed services for the real estate industry, today announced the launch of its “Modern Digital Workplace” (MDW) offering which enables real estate companies to work over distance in a highly collaborative manner for optimizing business outcomes. These capabilities are important during normal times as well as disruptive periods such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.
With many workers now at home under government mandates to protect public health, firms are struggling to sustain operations. Meanwhile, there’s uncertainty about when workplaces will reopen and concern about recurring outbreaks which could force employees to stay home again. Yet, according to Gartner, one of the world’s leading global research and advisory firms, “few organizations feel prepared for large-scale remote work” because they lack adequate technology infrastructure and are uncomfortable with new ways of working.
RealFoundations’ Modern Digital Workplace offering solves that problem. MDW is a collection of tools and ways of working that uses social collaboration techniques to turn any place with an internet connection into a place where a team member can always access the organization’s resources and collective knowledge for efficiently producing quality work.
The solution is built on the Microsoft 365 (M365) ecosystem and includes Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, Stream Video and other office productivity tools. Teams, the centerpiece, is a single, unified platform for communication and collaboration, providing one-on-one and group chat, video conferencing, document collaboration, curation and exchange of organizational knowledge, file storage, application integration and more. In addition to enabling work over distance, the platform allows for an unprecedented level of organizational knowledge sharing or “working out loud,” so all team members can easily and continually share what they know and learn from each other as they work.
“Thanks to technology innovation over the past decade or so, you no longer need to be in a traditional office to complete work or oversee work product. The Modern Digital Workplace brings transparency to ‘in-progress work’ as it happens and enables colleagues to quickly capture, find and share valuable information in a designated ‘place’ for the benefit of the company.”
— Chris Shaida, CEO and Co-Founder, RealFoundations
RealFoundations’ Modern Digital Workplace offering begins with an assessment of a company’s current collaborative work practices and a design for the enterprise-wide use of Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Search, Stream, Yammer and other productivity applications. This leads to the development of a high-level roadmap of the projects and tasks required to build, deploy and accelerate the organization’s adoption of the MDW. RF can execute some or even all of this recommended work. As an ongoing service, the firm also can help manage and administer the company’s M365 environment including functions such as identity and access management, security, data loss protection, mobile device management and information protection.
Existing Microsoft customers may already have access to what they need to start creating a modern digital workplace. RealFoundations, recognized as a world leader in digital collaboration by SWOOP Analytics (a Microsoft benchmarking partner), is uniquely qualified to help implement immediate and/or long-term solutions.
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To learn more about RealFoundations’ Modern Digital Workplace, contact us by email or +1 214 292 7000.
About SWOOP Analytics
SWOOP Analytics is an Australian company based in Sydney with people on the ground in the UK and US. They passionately believe in the power of collaboration and people networks to get work done. By analysing data from a variety of sources they provide employees and management with unique insights to make informed and evidence-based decisions about collaboration and the health of companies’ social networks.
About RealFoundations
RealFoundations (RF) is the world’s foremost professional services firm focused solely on the real estate industry. Through our delivery of Management Consulting and Managed Services, we help companies that develop, own, operate, service or invest in real estate make better, more profitable decisions. We are proud partners to over 500 real estate companies around the globe, providing accelerated solutions that solve some of real estate’s most complex challenges. We Make Real Estate Run Better.