e-Services for Sharjah government

Business Goal

Automate the process of issuing ownership certificate to property owners, payment of property taxes, bank mortgage contract creation
Adding critical e-Services for property owners, banks and brokers of Sharjah, to existing official web portal of Sharjah Real Estate Department
Make the properties easily searchable through web and mobile app for sale or rent
Developing Mobile app for Android and iOS with m-Services

.Net Framework 4.5

SQL Server 2008

Oracle

cordova

IOS

Android

e-services module for real estate department of Sharjah for brokers, banks, property owners, and automate the bank mortgage contract.

Functional requirements

We met Sharjah representative along with our local Dubai based partner several times to work and finalize the project requirements

Web

Develop e-Services module (in 2 languages: English and Arabic) for brokers, banks and property owners of Sharjah region and integrate with existing CMS portal of Sharjah Real Estate Department
Convert existing web portal to responsive or mobile friendly
Automate the flow of bank mortgage contract creation and approval

Mobile

Develop cross-platform HTML5 based mobile app for iOS and Android (in 2 languages: English and Arabic)
Mobile app will have all the e-Services as listed in Web module

Property owner (Individual and company) registration and company registration
Property owners can directly register online and avail ownership certificates and pay property taxes online
Broker registration and login</li>
Bank Manager registration and login
Bank representatives registration and login
Create mortgage contract and approval workflow for bank admin
Brokers can login and display property ads online
Mortgage reports
Trade reports
Convert existing web portal to responsive or mobile friendly

Mobile

Develop cross-platform HTML5 based mobile app for iOS and Android
Mobile app to have design as per the standards of Sharjah real estate department
Mobile app will have all the e-Services as listed in Web module

Technical architecture

For eService module we opted for 3 tier architecture of .Net framework
We also sketched an architecture to integrate the new e-Services modules with existing CMS
For cross-platform mobile app we opted for Phonegap framework
After studying the existing CMS and HTML/CSS, we brain-stormed a very plug-n-play approach to convert existing design to responsive HTML5/CSS3 without impacting other modules of existing web site

Web & Mobile application successfully passed automated testing of TRA (Telecommunication Regulatory Authority)
– U.A.E government

Project Delivery

May 2015 - January 2016

Added module for e-services for Property owners, Banks and broker
Converted the existing portal and new e-services module to mobile friendly HTML5/CSS3 responsive design
Developed cross-platform mobile app in Android and iOS with m-Services

eServices module is be available in 2 languages: English and Arabic
Registered users can request ownership certificate addressed to a specific department and print it online; Serial number will be given to this Certificate for referral use.
The website will generate a unique number for each requested ownership certificate. This unique reference number will be used by SRE admin to name the certificate.
The certificate will be generated by the existing system and saved in the server by SRE admin and the path will be linked with the front end module
The mortgage contract can be requested through attaching the authorization letter as well as official letter from the bank which includes some basic information like name, address, number of area estate etc.
mCommerce facility provided for the brokers.
We implemented trade report with the filters of weekly, Monthly & yearly based upon District or type of use
We implemented mortgage report facility by just entering only the emirates id.
Brokers can register and login to list their properties
Properties can be listed and searched based on area, usage type, and price range.

QA testing and UAT (User acceptance testing)

February 2016 – May 2016

New eServices module and mobile app went through rigorous testing by our QA team. Our QA team did several unit testing, integration testing, load testing and performance testing.

Entire web portal and mobile app also went through TRA automated testing (Telecommunication Regulatory Authority) – U.A.E government

Post-launch support and maintenance:

Team JPC Technologies provided complete support till all the QA tests and UAT were successfully passed. We provided all the manuals and instructions to push the web code, database for production. We have signed AMC with client to solve any technical issue arising from modules developed by you.