Brightwork Technologies Inc., has created an industry changing Real Estate framework built upon Microsoft .NET technologies. The “SIP” or Site Information Portal helps track a piece of raw land from potential acquisition through leasing activities. The main benefits are automatic updates and reporting of activities, email notifications and streamlined communications within a scalable and secure technical architecture.
The product provides a major competitive advantage for Century Companies of Lakeland Florida. Century Companies is a leading collection of real estate, land acquisition and land development companies. It illustrates Century Companies unique commitment, as a leader in the real estate development space, to make significant investments in technology allowing them to provide employees, partners, customers, tenants, clients and investors with advantages most firms can’t or are reluctant to provide.
Brightwork Technologies and Century Companies selected EGI Consulting of Dallas, Texas as the lead development firm and application hosting firm. EGI has extensive experience with the technologies utilized in this project. The portal backbone chosen for this application was the open source Content Management Portal DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke is a robust portal product built upon a solid Microsoft .NET framework. The custom SIP module was Constructed using C# 2.0, AJAX, SQL Server 2005 and several Infragistics™ Asp.Net controls (WebAsyncRefreshPanel, WebCurrencyEdit, UltraWebTab and WebDateTimeEdit). The module was built using a switchboard approach (1 main page with many views). Based on a query string value, the module loads the requested user controls into the DotNetNuke module. The SIP makes extensive use of the Session object to store Site specific data. The site data model was made very flexible by using an attribute/property approach. All site specific data is stored as properties as opposed to being stored in a static database table. The DotNetNuke Scheduler is being used to handle the email engine portion of the module.