Summary If you’re running Accruent EMS on-premise, you’ve likely already heard about EMS Cloud Services. Accruent has been actively moving on-premise customers toward its cloud product, using free upgrades as part of the incentive to make the switch, which means for many facilities and IT teams, this isn’t a fully optional upgrade so much as … Continued
Summary Accruent EMS is an established scheduling and workplace management platform used across corporate offices and higher education campuses. This guide answers the questions most buyers are actually researching: what EMS does, what’s included in the platform, what it costs, and how it compares to newer workplace management platforms like Maptician. If you’re evaluating EMS … Continued
Summary Migrating off Accruent EMS is a real project, not a button you push. Historical booking data, integrations, admin permissions, and years of staff habit are all on the line, and getting any of them wrong creates weeks of cleanup. But it’s also a well-understood process. This post is a step-by-step checklist covering pre-migration planning, … Continued
Summary Accruent EMS is a capable, highly configurable scheduling platform for rooms, desks, events, and shared resources, and it layers utilization reporting, visitor check-in, and meeting-service requests around those bookings. Where it stops short is confirming who’s actually showing up: EMS tells you what was reserved and reports on usage, but it can’t tell you … Continued
Author: Rae Taylor, Enterprise Account Executive I spent this year’s ILTACON talking to Facilities Directors and Office Managers from firms of every size, and one theme came up again and again: people are tired of stitching together five different systems just to run their office. It wasn’t framed as a complaint about any single … Continued
Author: Nic Rapacz, SVP of Sales Last week, the Maptician team attended the BOMA International Conference & Expo in Long Beach and if there was one theme that came up in nearly every conversation on the expo floor, it was this: property managers are done competing on square footage alone. For years, Class A … Continued
Author: Megan Heimes, Marketing Director I spent last week on the expo floor at SHRM 2026 as part of the Maptician team. It was one of those experiences that reminds you why in-person events still matter. Not because of the keynotes or the swag, but because of the conversations. The unfiltered ones. The “okay … Continued
You walk into the office on a Tuesday morning, ready to have a productive day. First stop: coffee. Except that the kitchen you used last week has been rearranged, and you can’t find the mugs. You track those down, then go looking for your teammate Sarah to catch up before your first meeting — but … Continued
Author: Landyn Duley, Enterprise Account Executive If you manage or work in a hybrid office, you already know what Tuesday looks like. People flood in, the good conference rooms are gone by 9 am, half the team is hunting for a desk, and someone ends up on a call from the stairwell because there’s nowhere … Continued
Author: Tyler Adams, Account Executive When a company opens a new office or expands its footprint, a lot is happening at once: new leases, new headcount, new everything. And somewhere in that chaos, one question almost always gets skipped: how are we actually going to manage this space? Not just physically. Operationally. Visually. In real … Continued