EZBid - catastrophe damage-appraisal software for dTailTech
Rebuilt an older DOS appraisal program as a Windows application - the tool appraisers use to estimate repair costs on property damaged by natural disasters.
- Period
- early 2000s
- Result
- Sold commercially for years
- Services
- What survives a decade
EZBid is a damage-appraisal and repair-estimating application for dTailTech, a Texas company. It is used by appraisers across the southern United States who assess property damaged by natural disasters - storms, hurricanes, hail - and produce the itemized repair estimates that go into insurance claims.
The starting point was an older DOS program with several linked databases and years of built-up logic. I rebuilt it as a Windows application, keeping the data and the workflow the appraisers depended on, and sourcing third-party components where the job called for them. It shipped with very few bugs and was sold as a commercial product for years afterward.
In hindsight, it is the same work I still do: take a system a business already runs on and move it to a current platform without losing what made it work.
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