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Computing Tools for the REALTOR® Enterprise
"An Enterprise Collaborative Computing System is an undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk where people work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort using a computing device that provides as means to input, process, and output information utilizing a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole."
Dale R. Pfeiffer, ECCS Management, LLC, The Age of Enterprise Collaborative Computing
Navica Streamline Association Management Software as a Service is an "Enterprise Collabroative Computing System" and is built to scale up to whatever size enterprise is required and can consolidate multiple entities into one unified, "member centric," REALTOR® advocacy and industry community. Dale, now working with Systems Engineering, Inc., refers to this cloud computing business model as enterprise computing.
-Navica Streamline AMS Software as a Service (advocacy)
-Navica Broker Management Software as a Service (industry)
-Navica Revolution Multiple Listing Software as a Service (industry)
-Navica MLS Management Software as a Service (industry)
-Navica Website Software as a Service (advocacy and industry)
Why have separate software solutions when you can have one unified, Web-based solution for all of your members?
Navica's enterprise computing has the following global features:
-Navica Enterprise Computing is "member centric."
-Navica Enterprise Computing is "resourceful."
-Navica Enterprise Computing is "Software as a Service."
-Navica Enterprise Computing is "collaborative."
-Navica Enterprise Computing is "cloud computing."
What is "Member Centric" Computing?
A member centric computing environment is much different from company or entity based systems. In a member-centric system, the member users are also the customers. Ones security access rights determine the view delivered to the user. Users manage their content. Member users collaborate with other member users within a secured "members only" Intranet. Often members subscribe by providing a user identifier, a password, and often a security question or symbol to gain access to the Intranet.
Members Only Intranets
When you subscribe to members only Website, you are experiencing a member-centric Intranet. For instance when you look for the best price for a vacation or business trip on Orbitz.com, check your frequent flyer miles on USAirways.com, check your bank balance on BankOfAmerica.com, purchase media on Amazon.com, sell your car on eBay.com, or register for an educational event or other special event on you association's "members only" Website, you have experienced a member-centric Intranet!
Social Media Intranets
When you subscribe to social media sites like MySpace.com, Twitter.com, Facebook.com, LinkedIn.com, or Google.com, you experienced a member-centric environment. Again the member manages their own content. But within the same Web space, the member consumer is the customer of the application service provider.
Wouldn't it be fun to log into Facebook.com as a Website administrator with a "business" view?
"State of the Art" Financial and Association Management Software and SaaS
Today's business financial and association management applications are entity-based. For instance QuickBooks Enterprise Software and QuickBooks Online Software as a Service are based on company-based computing. For instance if a Realtor Association MLS is multi-entity (and most are), the accountant sets up two separate company databases, one for the industry side (the MLS), and one for the advocacy side (the trade association). The bookkeeper logs in and out of each company as required. And even though the customer center for both entities is exactly the same, they are managed independently in separate databases. Likewise many popular association management software and SaaS applications are built on this dated, entity-based customer model.
Navica Enterprise Management SaaS Delivers a Member Centric Business Application
Systems Engineering, Inc. is a business application pioneer combining "front office" member centric computing with "back office" business management process. Using Navica Enterprise Management SaaS, Website administrators are equipped with computing tools that allow users to switch entities without switching customer databases: offices and members. Navica's member-centric Web architecture simplifies business process while saving cash, time, and effort.
In Source Our IT Department! Save THOUSANDS of $$$$$!
Systems Engineering, Inc. is "resourceful" and well equipped to lighten the Information Technology burden for business enterprises by minimizing in-house capital and human resource cost:
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Network Technicians!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Client/Server Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Communications Servers!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Terminal Services Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Firewall Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house SQL Server Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Application Server Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Storage and Backup Software!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Security Socket Layer (SSL) Certificates!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require in-house Member's Only Websites!
SEI's SaaS model doesn't require additional Hosting and Managed Service Fees!
What is Software as a Service?
As a leader in Web business technologies, Systems Engineering, Inc. has been "SaaSy" for a very long time! Navica SaaS has been in use for more than a decade!
According to Wikipedia, Software as a Service (SaaS, typically pronounced 'sass') is a model of software deployment where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on demand. On demand licensing and use alleviates the customer's burden of equipping a device with every application. It also reduces traditional software maintenance, ongoing operation patches, and patch support complexity in an organization. On demand licensing enables software to become a variable expense, rather than a fixed cost at the time of purchase. It also enables licensing only the amount of software needed versus traditional licenses per device. SaaS also enables the buyer to share licenses across their organization and between organizations, to reduce the cost of acquiring EULAs (a license) for every device in their firm.
Using SaaS can also conceivably reduce the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly, on-demand pricing from hosting service providers. SaaS lets software vendors control and limit use, prohibits copies and distribution, and facilitates the control of all derivative versions of their software. SaaS centralized control often allows the vendor or supplier to establish an ongoing revenue stream with multiple businesses and users without pre loading software in each device in an organization . The SaaS software vendor may host the application on its own web server, download the application to the consumer device and disable it after use or after the on demand contract expires. The on demand function may be handled internally to share licenses within a firm or by a third-party application service provider (ASP) sharing licenses between firms. This sharing of end user licenses and on demand use may also reduce investment in server hardware or the shift of server use to SaaS suppliers of applications file services.
What is an Enterprise Collaborative Computing System?
The following content is from The Age of Enterprise Collaborative Computing, by Dale R. Pfeiffer, Project Manager/Software Development
Enterprise - an undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk
Collaborative - to work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort
Computing - to determine using a computer
System - a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole
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