Power Programming, Moving Scotland (Falkirk For Sale) Case Study: Moving Scotland provides and independent focal point for all who have an interest in buying or renting a property in Falkirk, Strathclyde and the Lothian's. Moving Scotland's goal is to present their visitors with the most comprehensive and accurate listing of properties currently available.

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The Falkirk For Sale web portal was designed to provide a common point for users to view local properties in Central Scotland and beyond. The client has a desktop based application that allows them to keep track of all their clients, this application is the primary feed into the Falkirk For Sale web portal.

Moving Scotland

Business Overview

Moving Scotland provides and independent focal point for all who have an interest in buying or renting a property in Falkirk, Strathclyde and the Lothian's. Moving Scotland's goal is to present their visitors with the most comprehensive and accurate listing of properties currently available.

Business Objectives

Moving Scotland was only a young company when they came to Power Programming to ask what we could do to help them achieve their ultimate goal. Originally, the site had no search facilities and was simply made up of pages with lists of properties or property details. This meant that as more and more people took an interest in the site it was getting more difficult for the staff to keep up with the work load. Moving Scotlandâ€™s objectives were

To have an offline application which allowed for data input of all relevant property information, including photographs
To have a web portal that fits with the branding and offers customers a better experience
To design the web portal in such a way that it can grow with the business

Activities

Moving Scotland and ourselves met and discussed their objectives on numerous occasions, during our meetings we firmed down on the following

Branding
Look and feel
Separation between the office application and web portal
The link between the office application and web portal
Agree a time frame and core deliverables

Results

The following technical features were delivered

Web portal
- Full search facilities over properties
- Professional listings (i.e. mortgage brokers, banks)
- Quick search facilities
Business application
- Full property information capture including images
- Full professional listing capture
- Customer information capture
- Full offline review and WYSIWYG editing of web site content
Business application to Web portal synchronisation
- A process was created that would regularly update the web site with relevant changes from the business application.

The technologies used to deliver this site are

Web Portal
- Perl
- Proprietary flat file database
- JavaScript
- Java
- CSS
Business application
- Visual Basic
- MySQL database

The business objectives that Power Programming achieved during the implementation of the Moving Scotland site are

On-time delivery
Within budget delivery
Customer objectives achieved

In all, this entire project was delivered to Moving Scotland's complete satisfaction, in a timely manor and continues to be a vital cog in their business wheel.

Testimonial from Moving Scotland

"Very professional and followed the specification to the finest detail. Despite our changing requirements, deadlines were constantly met. The support that followed after the project was delivered was just as good as the initial project. Very happy to recommend this company and have referred others to Power Programming."

Screen Shots

Falkirk For Sale - Application side navigation bar