The Oklahoma City-based technology developer a la mode reorganized its company, splitting into two divisions that will focus on technology services for the real estate and mortgage sectors.
The real estate solutions division will service existing offerings and develop new products geared toward real estate agents and brokers, appraisers, and inspectors. The mortgage solutions division will do the same for lenders, loan officers, compliance officers, mortgage brokers, servicers, appraisal management companies, and real estate owned asset managers.
Dustin Moore will assume the role of real estate group president. Before his tenure at a la mode, Moore formerly held positions at Stewart Title. Adam Calvery, formerly the executive in charge of product management for appraisal products, is now president of the mortgage group.
The move will position the company to better promote and market its line of origination websites, appraiser management software and e-signature services, which now all fall under the mortgage group’s purview. Those products have long been in the shadows of a la mode’s better known products, like the valuation software appraisers use in the field and at the office to complete appraisal reports.
Earlier this week, a la mode said its Mercury Network appraiser management software—a Software-as-a-Service product that allows lenders to maintain appraisal independence regulations without the use of a third-party appraisal management company—sustained 10,000 transactions per day for a month.
The real estate group’s latest developments include applications compatible with the iPhone, iPad and coming soon, Android-powered devices, for appraiser and real estate agent field data gathering. The DaVinci for iPad app lets appraisers draw floor plans of properties, take pictures with an attached device and upload other property data. Since its release six months ago, the free app has been downloaded more than 48,000 times.
