Eigen Haard is one of the largest housing associations in the Netherlands, active in eight municipalities in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. With almost 600 employees, Eigen Haard has been developing, renting out and maintaining affordable housing since the early 20th century. They had an application developed to support the real estate valuation process. This is an important business process carried out annually to determine the value of real estate. The real estate valuation is important for the annual accounts and therefore for Eigen Haard's financial position. On behalf of Eigen Haard, E-mergo developed a custom application for this using Mendix.
Housing association Eigen Haard improves valuation process with Mendix
Eigen Haard's valuation process consists of several steps, including generating standard reports, exporting data from source systems, and processing data using the SAS DI (Data Integration Studio) tool. In the old situation, SAS DI was used for merging, transforming and preparing the various datasets. Due to the phasing out of SAS DI, Eigen Haard had to look for an alternative solution. After thorough preliminary research by Eigen Haard, it turned out that, given the specific nature of the requested solution, no usable standard software was available on the market. For that reason, a selection process was carried out with various low-code platforms, and Eigen Haard chose Mendix. Mendix meets all aspects of Eigen Haard's wishes and requirements, which we at E-mergo applied in the new application.
The Result
Automation
Several steps in the process that used to be carried out manually have been automated by the application. This applies, among other things, to running simulations (data checks) and keeping the log in the audit trail. This saves a lot of time and prevents errors.
Ease of use
The transformation rules and data validations can be configured in the application by the users, meaning the application's behavior can be adjusted to a certain extent without needing support from the IT department.
Management
The management and further development of the application is handled by E-mergo. This ensures Eigen Haard has support and safeguards the continuity of the process. This last point is important because we expect the application will need to be adjusted annually as a result of changes in regulations.
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