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| Introduction |
| 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’s requisite was for a solution 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, ourclienturl.com.
This helped our clients 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 |
| The client is a leading real estate agent based
in London U.K. They have nine offices spread across some of the
most important areas of London. They deal in all kinds of real
estate and properties. |
| Business Requirements |
| Our client is a real estate
company based in London. They were looking for a website
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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. |
The company required a set of solutions to manage the massive
data exchanges between their different branches - an application
that would help their customers 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. |
| Solution |
Our client 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 customer gets automatically directed
towards the agent handling property in that particular area
as desired by the client. |
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Integration of UpMyStreet
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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| User Level Architecture |
The web application developed by us is highly
customer friendly wherein we have integrated numerous modules
to facilitate the customer in his property search. These modules
are:
- 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.
- Registered User Module: Through this module the registered
customer gets the facility to log into the web application
and also save his settings.
- My Property Tracker: Is a comprehensive module which enables
agents in keeping a track of the property that they are handling.
- 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.
- 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.
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 server, MS SQL is updated by
the clients themselves and these updated figures regarding
properties available, 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. |
An automatic script has been integrated in ourclienturl.com, which
runs at a set interval of time to update and enhance the site
according to the changed status of the main server. |
| Technologies
Used |
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APACHE |
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MySQL |
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PHP |
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Java Script |
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XML |
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| Summary |
The client 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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