READS - State Government Highways & Real Estate Operation Automation Software
Overview
State Highways Departments have an extensive and complex range of operations, including planning, cost estimating, negotiating, acquiring, relocating, managing property, accounting, and more. Many states have sought to address their broad range of duties with automated solutions, having varying levels of success.
The automation problem is solved with READS (Real Estate Automated Data System). READS is a complete automated software solution which streamlines, organizes, and simplifies daily Highways/Real Estate operations, saving immense amounts of time and money. READS allows for extensive data tracking, analysis, reporting, and document generation for all aspects of Highways/Real Estate operation from start to finish. It organizes the ongoing processes of projects in a logical, efficient, and elegant way, minimizing time/dollars spent while maximizing the ease of project management. This makes READS a valuable tool for administrative personnel, field agents, and managers alike. Some of the many READS
Features:
- A simple and intuitive user interface
- Many full-featured data entry screens and browser-like navigation
- Extensive search capabilities
- Generates almost 100 different standard real estate documents automatically
- Generates scores of different letters for correspondence with property owners, attorneys, tenants, etc.
- Quickly creates numerous reports for analysis, status updates, tracking, and reference
- Allows export of information, reports, and letters to MS Excel or MS Word
- Allows easy addition/modification of customized reports and letters
- READS is currently in use by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and has been used as their main Real Estate tool for over three years.
Specifications
READS runs on any Windows XP or higher PC with Microsoft Access installed.
READS will run on a Duo Core PC with 1GB of RAM or above. It requires approximately 30 MB of drive space for the software, and the requirements for the data files vary based on the amount of data being stored. Typical data file size would be between 30 and 100 MB.