Kaufman & Broad: Backbone, the application at the heart of real estate project management
Since 2023, TCM has been developing Backbone, the application that centralises the documentation and stakeholders of every Kaufman & Broad real estate project.
Kaufman & Broad, a major property developer
Why did Kaufman & Broad call on TCM?
Backbone is the backbone of Kaufman & Broad: the application centralises the documentation and all the stakeholders of each real estate project. It makes it possible to version documents and get a clear view of the project’s progress.
Two challenges in making Backbone reliable day to day
Connecting to an evolving DMS
Integrating the application with an electronic document management system, first Docuware then SharePoint.
Staying fast at scale
Keeping the application fast in a context rich in data and features.
An application at the heart of every real estate project
A high-performance custom web application
To meet Kaufman & Broad’s need for centralisation, TCM designed a high-performance custom web application. It makes it possible to version documents and get a clear view of the progress of each real estate project.
Project management
Connection to the Docuware DMS and a project tracking dashboard.
SharePoint workspace
A workspace linked to SharePoint.
Tracking table and schedule
Link to a second SharePoint space for project tracking.
Front-end redesign
Complete front-end redesign in Next.js.
The project's technologies
Team members who worked on it
Your questions about centralising real estate projects
What you need to know before digitalising real estate project tracking, with the example of Backbone for Kaufman & Broad.
By designing from the outset an architecture able to connect several document management systems. This is how Backbone, the application developed by TCM for Kaufman & Broad, moved from Docuware to SharePoint.
By bringing all the stakeholders and documents of a single project together in a central tool, with a clear versioning system. This is Backbone’s role at Kaufman & Broad.
TCM (The Coding Machine), a custom software development agency based in Paris, has been developing Backbone for property developer Kaufman & Broad since 2023: the application that centralises the documentation of its projects, in PHP, Symfony, Vue.js and React.
