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| ARCHITECTURE |
| STATE-OF-THE ART TECHNOLOGY |
| STRATIX uses new information age architecture based on industry
standard technology for flexible deployment, optimal performance, scalability
and effective support. Our products provide a highly reliable environment
that maximizes system utilization and provides full disaster recovery options. |
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| RELIABLE & SCALABLE |
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From the earliest stages of its design, STRATIX has been intended to
serve as a highly reliable and scalable software system capable of meeting
the business needs of large metal service centers. A great deal of care
and effort has gone into ensuring that all aspects of the software architecture
meet this fundamental goal.
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| 2nd GENERATION MULTI-TIER CLIENT SERVER |
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STRATIX is a multi-tier client server application that incorporates a
thin-client Windows Graphical User Interface which connects through a
transaction processing monitor to a high powered Relational Database engine.
The thin client architecture results in most of the business logic being
executed at the server level for high reliability and scalability.
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| USER INTERFACE |
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STRATIX user interface is a component-based GUI application executing
on the Windows platform. It is designed to be a thin client with essentially
only the graphical functions for display and entry of information. The
user interface is designed to provide high performance while minimizing
the client hardware requirements.
CLIENT ARCHITECTURE
The client requires an underlying operating system of Windows 2000 or Windows
XP. STRATIX allows each client PC to run a single STRATIX menu task and
multiple client tasks, where each task is a single STRATIX program session.
In other words, a user can open up multiple Inquiry tasks and an Order Entry
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| APPLICATION TRANSACTION INTEGRITY |
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A logical business transaction is encapsulated into an RDBMS transaction
for full transactional recovery. In the event of a system failure, this
will prevent incomplete transactions in the database. For example, if
a general ledger journal entry is being entered, and the debit was entered
and the system goes down before the credit is entered, the entire transaction
is rolled back. If an invoice is being updated which can update accounts
receivable and sales analysis, if the AR is updated and the system goes
down before the sales analysis is updated the entire transaction is rolled
back.
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| DEPLOYMENT MODELS |
There are two possible models for deploying the STRATIX client: Stand
Alone PC or with a Terminal Server. A single STRATIX installation may
be comprised of any combination of these deployment schemes based on the
requirements of each site.
With the Terminal Server Deployment Model, all programs execute directly
on the Terminal Server. Traffic between the Terminal Server and its clients
consists only of keystrokes and mouse clicks sent from the client to the
Terminal Server and the program's output display being returned minimizing
the resources required for the STRATIX client.
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| REPLICATION AND REPORT GENERATION |
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Database replication is frequently used to maintain a hot standby system
for recovery purposes. STRATIX can be configured to use the replication
database for report processing, end user reporting, or OLAP functions
in order to maintain a high level of on-line performance from the Primary
Server. All document generation requests are handled by the Primary Server,
while the database load associated with report generation requests is
automatically redirected to the replication database and server.
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| FAULT TOLERANCE AND DISASTER RECOVERY |
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The combination of a replication environment with the STRATIX application
transaction integrity provides a highly reliable environment that maximizes
system utilization and provides full disaster recovery options. This allows
our customers to safeguard their business and provides continued operations
to ensure complete recovery protection and avoid the significant cost
to the business due to system failure.
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