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| REAL ESTATE
PORTAL |
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| The entire procedure
of selling or letting property in London is a tedious
task and many a times customers don’t know where
to look for complete information regarding available properties.
Our client required a solution for its customer; to streamline
the process of selling and letting property in London
U.K. They wanted a one stop shop for their customers.
Icreon studied the various aspects of the requirement
and implemented the web application.
This helped our client’s customer in increasing
their ROI and restructuring their complete process of
selling and letting properties. It proved a boon to customers
who were able to find the perfect destination to buy properties
in London. |
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| Customer
Profile |
| Our client is a leading
I.T company based in London U.K. They required a web based
real estate solution for their customer, dealing in all
kinds of real estate and properties. |
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| Business
Requirement |
| Our client is an IT
company based in London. They were looking for a website
for their customer that would make it easier: |
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To maintain their huge database at
a centralized location |
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To co-ordinate work between their nine branches |
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Provide optimized information on properties in
London |
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| Our Client’s customer
required a set of solutions for their company to manage
the massive data exchanges between their different branches
- an application that would help property seekers in selecting
properties in London based on various search conditions
such as the number of rooms required, price, availability
of swimming pool, parking area, elevators, adjacent parks
etc. |
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| E-Solutions for
Homely Affairs |
| Our client’s customer required a solution
for streamlining the process of selling and renting real
estate in London. The website thus developed has special
features such as: |
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The web application is powered by
a content management system. This enables site administrators
to dynamically manage what the end customer views
on the website. |
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A Multi-level administrator user management system
has been integrated in this web based application.
This empowers numerous sales managers with the necessary
tools to fulfill their unique responsibilities and
manage their workflows. |
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| The three levels of administration are: |
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Super administrator who has all the
powers and who can make any change in the website. |
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Managers, who have powers in their own particular
offices and who are liable to report to the super
administrator. |
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Editors, who have very limited set of powers
and are not empowered to modify the application. |
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Integration of a workflow module wherein the property
seeker gets automatically directed towards the agent
handling property in that particular area as desired
by our client. |
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Integration of Up My Street web services, to show
all information regarding properties in a local
area. |
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Integration of an extranet for agents to keep
a track of all properties they deal with. |
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Use of the GD Library to enhance the visual effects
of the pictures of the properties. These pictures
can be viewed in any size without compromising their
clarity |
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Integration of a Statistics Module which gives
a complete overview of the web application in one
glance. |
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| The web application developed by us is highly
customer friendly wherein we have integrated numerous
modules to enable the property seeker in his property
search. These modules are: |
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User Module: It is the integration
of this module in the web application that facilitates
any web user to search for the available property
in U.K. |
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Registered User Module: Through this module the
registered customer gets the facility to log into
the web application and also save his settings. |
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My Property Tracker: Is a comprehensive module
which enables agents in keeping a track of the property
that they are handling. |
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Admin Module: With the incorporation of this module
the company was empowered to designate a Super administrator,
managers and editors. These administration levels
enjoy their own set of powers which help in distributing
roles, thereby streamlining the entire process. |
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Notice Board/Block Module: The functionality of
this module is block centric. It is a micro-site
with a separate admin, which updates the information
on the notice board for particular blocks which
can be easily accessed by the block user through
the block name, user I.D. and password. |
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| The streamlined process of data flow within
the application: |
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The web based application is based
on a multi-tier architecture. |
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The main Oracle Server is updated by our clients
themselves and these updated figures regarding available
properties, are fetched by the local server, MySQL
using the Free TDS Technique. |
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Through the local database server the data is
fetched by PHP classes and transferred to the Template
Engine. |
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From the Template Engine data is directly displayed
on the UI. |
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| An automatic script has been integrated
in the real estate portal, which runs at a set interval
of time to update and enhance the site according to the
changed status of the main server. |
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| Technologies used
in developing this web application are: |
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| Summary |
Our client’s customer required a solution
to organize the process of property buying and letting.
The need was for an application that would provide all
the relevant information to the end customer such as the
location of the property, the prices, disabled access,
garages and other facilities that are available with the
concerned property.
The application developed by Icreon is serving its purpose
and has proved to be the perfect resolution in the arena
of real estate management. |
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