Housing Software that's powerful...when it works
What do you like best?
Realpage unifies many different functions/aspects of our business and as a web-based system makes accessibility and rollout fairly easy. Training new employees in the system is fairly straightforward and although the learning curve can be overwhelming at first they catch on quickly. When things work, they work well, and it is nice to have documentation filed so neatly and so easily accessible across the company.
What do you dislike?
The migration from Windows 7 (Internet Explorer only!) into modern browsers and W10 has been rocky, slow, and many functions still aren't working correctly outside of Internet Explorer, which is increasingly becoming a security issue (as well as a compatibility issue). There are also frequent outages and end users aren't aware, so the IT Department ends up fielding a lot of tickets only to tell end users that there's an outage. Communication could be better. Tier 1 support often gives end users completely incorrect information and results in more work for us (and them) down the road.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think the platform is good and heading in the right direction, but I think their company structure probably needs revision, better support teams (esp t1) and if you adopt Realpage you'll need to be prepared for a lot of things to not work as expected right away.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
RealPage makes it so new equipment rollout is largely a non-issue and users are able to pick back up almost immediately. Once they learn the system, it works across all our portfolio. The new Unified Login is also a smoother experience--when it works.