CASE STUDIES : Real Estate Broker Solution

Outsourcing partner providing web services of any aspect in IT business develops and deploys web solutions to strategically growing companies in North America. Having 12 years experience in web, our client applies top technologies in every project with professional approach to satisfy current needs in providing social networking products, ecommerce and API integrated solutions like Youtube, Google Video, Google Maps, Blogger, Facebook, etc.

Our goal was to create a flexible and user driven real estate web solution which is easily manageable and customizable. We were challenged to develop major solution in such competitive web sphere as real estate that provided us an opportunity to investigate the current market, analyze all benefits competitors have and come up with user-friendly interface and extensive functionality.

• Cross platform API development: solution should retrieve and deploy information about agent and any real estate at any resellers’ or partners’ website;

• MLS/VLS synchronization tool: exporting information from general database required collation such information as assigned agents, virtual tour availability and all primary information about selected real estate.

Solution

With modern and flexible Zend Framework platform, our company comes with high-tech PHP solution that provides developers a wide range of varieties to operate working with popular services and their API’s to easily retrieve, process and operate from agents’ contacts and attached listings to MLS full database being manipulated at administrative.

Synchronization was always an issue when we operate with huge data resources. Zend DB component put a great impact on DB Relations between MLS/VLS and our databases. Abstract object style structure allows easily collaborate this component with Db storages of any types (SQL, MS Access, Interbase, Oracle, MYSQL and etc.) The up-to-date data can be taken from public information provided by the biggest USA real estate company with the help of administrative tools, like export and update modules. The self-educated system retrieves the fields that are updated and introduces them into our system, providing them to be manually checked while adding new real estate object.

Technologies & Software Utilized

• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Zend, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash Professional;

• Zend Framework;

• PHP 5.x, MYSQL 5.x;

• Flash, Action script 2.0, XML.

Results

The flexibility of completed web application with user-friendly interface and dynamic back-end management system gives both companies trends to develop the solution for future needs like multi-layout system and API services with various real estate extra functional such as school information service and any details objects in neighborhood.

Quick search engine where any user can seek for real estate by entering region, house type and price range guarantees that potential customer won’t be lost in routine of information provided by website.

Open House managed by site administrator helps to direct user to the location where house is situated and schedule the appointment at the time, suitable for customer.

As a result, web application provides our partners’ company with good and potential lead generator that brings more and more web traffic to web-site.

Customer benefits

• Easy to use web application with amount of tracking and customizable features at the back-end;

• Self-educated system: customer doesn’t need to invent or introduce new options, as exporting supplement with new fields while adding new object;

• Cost-effective solution: offshore outsourcing reduces expenses to minimum that gives company a potential to invest more into maintenance from saved funds;

• Multi-layout module brings partner company to the new level in web market with selling the ready-made solution with skin integration module and flexible template system.