ENERGODATA POST OFFICE AUTOMATION SOLUTION
Advanced post office transaction management environment
Every postal organization wants to be reliable, versatile and successful enterprise of public interest in the market of communication, finance, informatics and logistic.
New trends - deregulation of the industry and the widespread adoption of doing business on the Internet, demand a completely different approach to defining business operations and to designing software solutions. The right answer is development and distribution of secure, high-performance, robust applications accross distributed networks.
Energodata Post Office Automation Solution is based on Distributed Network Architecture.
Operating environment is Microsoft Windows NT / 2000 Server for Application Logic Tier and Data Tier, and Windows NT Workstation / 2000 Professional for Presentation Tier. On Middle Tier Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and components provide middleware for Scalable, Distributed Internet Applications. MS SQL Server is deployed on Data Tier with possible connectivity to the other major databases.
Object oriented development environment is based on MS Visual Studio with integrated toolset for managing all phases of a new application's life cycle.
Benefits
- Performing transactions with transparency and consistency across physical and electronic channels allows integrating new services
- Increased customer satisfaction -simplified and more efficient transactions
- Increased reliability - no machine ever acts as a single point of failure
- Customization & Localization - capability to simply change standard user interface components
Post Office Automation Solution includes the following application subsystems:
- Counter
- Cash desk
- Delivery
- Shipment
- Administration
- Statistics and archiving
Central part of User Interface is Navigator. Navigator integrates Windows and application security with consistent authorization and authentication.
Administration subsystem supports Peripheral configuration for: passbook printers, scales and bar code readers.
One example of integrated service is Express Shipment (in cooperation with DHL). With this approach it's really easy to provide Track & trace functions in usual Web fashion.
