Jeff Brush wrote this over on RETS Dev, and I'm modifying it slightly by putting it in a table with :
I was reading Mike Wurzer's Future of the MLS wiki and thought of its impact on RETS. To start it would be interesting to compile a list of the services an MLS does today, the 'as-is' model,and should do in the future, the 'to-be' model.
These models might then be used to help guide where RETS itself should be going.
The following is my first shot at the existing services:
| UC Name |
Actors |
Description |
Comments |
| Listing Search |
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Is this too general? |
| Listing Add and Edit |
Agents/Brokers |
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| Listing Data Replication |
Broker systems |
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Is this too general? Should it be broken down into who and why it is being replicated? |
| IDX feeds |
RE Web Sites, VOWs |
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Is this a subset of Listing Syndication? |
| Open Houses |
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| Hotsheets |
Agents |
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CMAs |
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| Market Share Statistics |
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| Forecasts |
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| Tax Information |
Auditors, Agents, Appraisers |
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| Document Management |
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| Transaction Management |
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| NRDS Membership |
Associations, NAR |
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| User/Member (Security) Management |
MLS |
Limits who can access what data |
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| Data (Security) Managment |
MLS |
Limits accessability of data fields |
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| Training |
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Comments?
Suggestions for future services?
Jeff
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