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Marcus &, Millichap is a large commercial real estate investment firm in the US and Canada. They were in need of a tool, integrated into their intranet, for managing their real estate loans. Their current tool for doing this was clunky, slow, and had an interface inconsistent with other tools employees were used to using, making it less familiar and confusing.
The challenge was to design and develop an
application for efficiently managing real estate loans, ensuring integration with their existing data, security and interface design, without disrupting their current database schema tied to existing reports and processes. We familiarized ourselves with their processes, user roles, and data structures, while using newer technologies such as SQL Server Reporting Services and client side JavaScript MVC frameworks, to create a logical, organized, fast, and user-friendly tool. We became experts in Marcus &, Millichap’s loan approval process, analyzing documentation of their highly complex business rules, and meeting frequently with their IT team and loan administrators to capture the nuance needed within the application workflow. We created innovative processes and data relationships while maintaining the existing data structure for backwards compatibility.Our team developed a seamless UI that captured the system complexity simply across multiple interfaces and devices. We optimized for performance, using an MVC based architecture with knockout.js, raising the bar for internal application standards at the company. Our team integrated with multiple existing data sources and applications for enterprise wide integration of this complex application. We also simplified and migrated reporting into SQL Server Reporting Services to align with the rest of their reporting infrastructure and current technologies so that data and reporting could sync across the company.
