This chapter introduces you to a fictitious company that is used as an example throughout this book. It summarizes a simple business case giving you a sense of the objectives, requirements, and the details of the company's solution design.

Read this chapter to:

• Understand the goals and scope of this book.
• Understand National Real Estate Clearinghouse's (NREC's) business.
• Understand the business problem and scope of the solution.
• Get an idea of the sample company's implementation methodology.
• Get a list of project documents used to capture the application design.
• Review the requirements that the tasks in the rest of the book are intended to implement.

The NREC example is a simple example used to highlight particular tasks. It is not intended to present a solution design or suggest a comprehensive implementation methodology. Rather, it highlights particular aspects of NREC's solution design to present tasks in a real-world context.