McGuire Real Estate consolidates
legacy applications to gain a competitive edge using .NET
Profile
McGuire Real Estate is the premier independent Real Estate
brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. With over 200 agents,
40 staff members, and more than US $1 billion in Real Estate
sales, the company was ranked 76th in 2002 among the largest
100 residential real estate brokerages in the United States.
McGuire specializes in luxury Real Estate.
Customer Situation
The IT setup at McGuire Real Estate was rather outdated.
The legacy systems were either standalone in nature,
or were connected to a Paradox database application
that was extremely slow over the Wide Area Network (WAN).
Such a setup severely impacted the workflow process.
In addition, the company needed to address concerns
around internal Business Intelligence management, and
putting up an website with enhanced functionalities.
In order to address the issues around the IT setup
and to lay the foundation for a dynamic, data-rich Internet
website, McGuire decided to implement an integrated
solution that would improve employee productivity, boost
business visibility, and establish the foundation for
a comprehensive industry website. |
MISSILE paves the way for our future. Now that
we have the back-office under control, we look
forward to working with TCS on a total revamp
of our consumer website, www.mcguire.com, which
is based on the MISSILE workflow platform. 
Mr. Charles Moore
President
McGuire Real Estate
www.mcquire.com |
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The rich features of .NET platform combined with
the rapid development environment provided by
Visual Studio .NET helped TCS deliver the Real
Estate solution to McGuire quickly. Productivity
accelerator components from TCS.Net Components
Factory helped decrease the development and testing
time.
Vikram Talwar
Regional Manager
TCS America
www.tcs.com |
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Solution
McGuire reached out to Tata Consulting Services (TCS)
for an application that would integrate all key processes
within the organization and enable data access from
anywhere.
McGuire Information System for Sales, Inventory, Leads
and Expenses (MISSILE), was developed on the Microsoft
.NET platform. The system leverages the company's investments
in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory,
Exchange 2000, and Great Plains Dynamics and replaces
several legacy systems.
MISSILE provides McGuire employees with a central data
repository and a suite of browser-based workflow applications,
eliminating redundant data entries, and providing real-time,
role-based access to information to all the users. |
Benefits
An incredible 65% reduction in costs, improved employee productivity,
anytime, anywhere information and improved business performance
are some new benefits.
The biggest benefit has been the increase in productivity
by reducing the time spent to manually collate and generate
the correct data for each business cycle. MISSILE takes advantage
of built-in Microsoft tools to present data as per the employees'
requirement.
With MISSILE, McGuire was also able to adopt lower cost VPN-based
WAN connections instead of expensive leased lines, saving
65% on recurring monthly charges. With MISSILE, the overall
speed and efficiency of the workflow has improved drastically,
saving the company 20% in time-ontask and producing an ROI
of at least 20%.
With access to up-to-date information, McGuire can closely
watch its overall performance and the performance of individual
agents. This not only helps manage the financials of the company
but also provides inputs to Sales Managers so that they can
do performance appraisals more frequently.
Partner: Tata Consultancy
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