Comments on: Real Estate Software Vendors Should Join the Small Business Web http://www.bradnix.com/real-estate-small-business-web/ chaotic good optimizer Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:21:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Harris http://www.bradnix.com/real-estate-small-business-web/#comment-33 David Harris Sun, 02 May 2010 14:09:06 +0000 http://bradnix.com/?p=906#comment-33 Brad, I agree with your sentiment 100%. In fact, I think it's the number 1 issue a real estate professional faces when they decide to "go tech". My presentation at RETechSouth focused on helping agents think through the day to day maintenance and integration of all the shiny new tech tools they have available. In fact, some of the "free" tools can end up costing you more in lost time and productivity and ultimately business. You are referring to what is commonly called Service Oriented Architecture (or SOA) where systems present data and functions through discoverable APIs. Did I just geek out on you there? ;-) And I agree that the RE industry has lagged many industries in adopting this. I am the new chairman of the Research and Development workgroup within RESO (Real Estate Standards Organization) which is responsible for the governance of RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard). And in that role I am totally focused on evolving the RE industry technology standards so that tech vendors can work more collaboratively without reinventing the wheel. We are an entirely volunteer group that desperately needs more "customer" voices, such as yourself (hint hint). To keep up with our progress you can follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/resord. We are also hosting an idea discussion session at Midyear in two weeks on May 13th at 1pm. Thanks for the post, David Brad, I agree with your sentiment 100%. In fact, I think it’s the number 1 issue a real estate professional faces when they decide to “go tech”. My presentation at RETechSouth focused on helping agents think through the day to day maintenance and integration of all the shiny new tech tools they have available. In fact, some of the “free” tools can end up costing you more in lost time and productivity and ultimately business.

You are referring to what is commonly called Service Oriented Architecture (or SOA) where systems present data and functions through discoverable APIs. Did I just geek out on you there? ;-) And I agree that the RE industry has lagged many industries in adopting this.

I am the new chairman of the Research and Development workgroup within RESO (Real Estate Standards Organization) which is responsible for the governance of RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard). And in that role I am totally focused on evolving the RE industry technology standards so that tech vendors can work more collaboratively without reinventing the wheel. We are an entirely volunteer group that desperately needs more “customer” voices, such as yourself (hint hint). To keep up with our progress you can follow us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/resord. We are also hosting an idea discussion session at Midyear in two weeks on May 13th at 1pm.

Thanks for the post,
David

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