Onboard Informatics Increases Competitive Advantage with Timely, Accurate Information
 
 

Onboard Informatics Increases Competitive Advantage with Timely, Accurate Information

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Onboard Informatics provides local, regional, and national real estate data solutions and Web tools and services to real estate, media, and technology companies. The company offers Lifestyle Listings Engine, a lifestyle-focused property search engine; Neighborhood Navigator, a local neighborhood search tool; and CoPilot, an application for creating relocation reports and listing presentations. It also provides content delivery services for information on home sales, values, and trends; schools; businesses; and demographics.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from OnBoard Informatics

  • “Oracle Database Standard Edition with Oracle Real Application Clusters have provided a very secure and stable environment. The solutions are critical components of our infrastructure and ensure 24/7 reliability and availability.” – Peter Goldey, Chief Information Officer, Onboard Informatics

  • Provide a fault tolerance environment to ensure around-the-clock availability and scalability that supports growth of real estate data and content
  • Enable company to access near-real-time metrics related to markets and pricing

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Cintra Software to migrate to Oracle Database Standard Edition with Real Application Clusters to add a dual node to the database architecture and ensure around-the-clock uptime
  • Ensure that the company’s data on homes for sale is updated in real time
  • Enabled Onboard Informatics to manage, clean, and process hundreds of data feeds—which it receives on a daily basis—to provide its customers with a complete view of what is happening in the real estate marketplace
  • Decreased company’s reliance on third-party geographic information systems and reduced associated costs by 40% using Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator
  • Enabled Onboard Informatics to provide national media companies with ranking systems for popular consumer stories, such as “Best Places to Live” features
  • Completed the implementation within budget in just 12 weeks

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