Survey

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Every MLS who submits a completed survey will be invited to attend an additional presentation at Techfest to review the survey results.

Please submit only one survey per MLS.

MLS:
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Name:
# of Employees:
# of Users:

During 2008, did your membership:  




During 2009, has your membership:  



Development

  • Do you use any particular methodologies?
  • How many full-time developers do you have?  



  • What programming language(s) do you use?








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  • What platform(s) are your product served on?



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  • What browsers does your product support?








     Other:

Design

  • How many full-time software designers do you have {graphic, architecture, UI, etc.)?  



  • What design tools do you use?
  • What kind of documents do you create?
  • What models do you follow?

Database

  • What databases do you use?




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  • What tools do you use along with the databases?



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Open Houses/Showings

  • Do you provide an Open House tool?  
  • If the tool is 3rd party, which tool do you use?
  • Do you provide a Showings tool?  
  • If the tool is 3rd party, which tool do you use?

Virtual Tours

  • Do you support a Virtual Tours service in your product?  
  • If so, do you provide the Virtual Tours service?  

Photos

  • How many photos do you allow per listing?  






  • What photo file types do you allow?




     Other:
  • What is the maximum photo file size you allow?   KB
  • How do you store the photos?  

  • Do you provide a photo-taking service for your users?  

Document Uploads

  • How many documents do you allow the user to attach to a listing?  




  • What restrictions do you have on file types?
  • What is the maximum file size you allow?   KB
  • How do you store the documents?  

Mapping

  • Do you provide a mapping service for your users?  
  • If so, what solutions(s) do you use?






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  • What mapping tools/libraries do you use?
  • How do you get your mapping data?
  • What mapping features do you provide?







     Other:

Help Desk

  • What hours do you provide live technical support for?





     Other:

Billing

  • What type of billing mechanism do you use?

     Other:
  • How often do you bill the users?





     Other:
  • Do you charge per-transaction fees on additional services?   If so, for what services?

Property Types

  • What property types do you support?

Client Management/Support

  • Do you provide for the management of clients in your product?  
  • Do you provide for a client website?  

Transaction Management

  • Do you provide transaction management (workflow) in your product?  

Ranges vs Single Value

  • Do you support a range (high/low values) for the following?
  • Price (Variable Range Marketing)?  
  • Square feet?  
  • Year built?  
  • Floors/levels?  
  • Lot size?  
  • Bedrooms?  
  • Bathrooms?  

Training

  • Do you provide training classes?  
  • In what locations do you support training?


     Other:

Reporting

  • What report tools do you use?
  • Do you allow users to add personal branding to their reports?  
  • Do you allow users to customize which data elements are display on reports?  
  • Do you allow users to customize their report layouts?  
  • What output formats do you support reports?

Production Releases

  • How often do you release updates for your product?





     Other:
  • What timeframe do you perform your releases in?



     Other:

RETS

  • Which versions of RETS do you currently support?
  • Which versions of RETS do you plan to support in the future?

Other Product Features

  • Do you allow multiple logins?  
  • Do you have impersonation on your system?  
  • Do you have teams on your system?  
  • What preferences can you users set?
  • What types of searches can your users perform?



    Other:
  • Can your users create a custom column set on the search results?  
  • Do you have a CMA tool?  
  • If so, what kinds of CMAs are you providing?
  • Do you support any exporting to the Excel format (.xls)?  
  • Do you provide column sorting?  
  • Do you support exporting of Public Records data?  
  • Do you have a custom RETS client?  

Other Technical

  • Do you use AJAX in your product?  
  • How do you provide help text for your users?
  • Do you provide strong authentication?  
  • What libraries do you include?
  • What 3rd party products/tools do you use?
  • Do you use any off-site storage (such as S3)?  
  • If so, what storage system do you use?