Customer Profile
Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency requested the Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) to undertake a study to analyze housing needs across the Commonwealth. The information in this study contains information from the 2000 Census as well as the 1990 Census. This study was completed in three phases.
The first phase is a series of county fact sheets that provide a summary of population and housing statistics.
The second phase is an analytical report.
The third phase is an affordable housing index.
Industry – State and Local Government
Geography – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Product Category:
- Application Development
- Database Access and Integration
- Windows COM Development
Challenges:
- Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency was looking for a better way to handle loan applications. Originally, facsimile or mail was the only option applicants had for turning in loan applications. Information from these applications then had to be manually entered via green screen applications to the AS/400.
Results:
- PHFA used ASNA Visual RPG to create a Web site where applicants can submit loan applications. With the new AVR-developed Web site, applicants can now submit applications on-line and track the status of the application. Furthermore, PHFA has become more efficient because the new website has cut the man-hours needed to input data. Development of the application only took PHFA four months and, considering that the total cost for development was only $30,000, PHFA’s return on investment is significant at nearly $300,000 over the 10-years that the application is planned to be in production.
Quote:
“Using AVR has been great. This Web application is just one of the many applications that we have developed using Visual RPG. Our representatives have become more effective and enjoy using the applications.”
—Kevin Wike