Brief Technical Particulars
The CMS software is Industry standard software using middle ware and products, hardware components and LAN/WAN network components. The business transactions are transacted so as to provide timely information with increased productivity and reduced paper work to a great extent at the lobby locations. The CMS system is being implemented in the Railways Lobbies at 306 lobby (Location where Railways crew are booked) locations with touch screen along with biometric devices for Sign-On/Off of crew from their duties. The CMS software uses FOIS and Railways network with adequate provision for security in the system so that it is not be vulnerable to hacking from outside. It also has on-line application processing (distributed) & data inter-viewing at the Divisional and Zonal offices.
The different applications of CMS require various levels of organization hierarchy to access it via a web browser. This application extends to various stakeholders and provides a single window interface to the Train Crew.
The CMS software is a centralized architecture using n-tier Java EE architecture with Web Services/Struts framework which works in online mode. All the stakeholders access the applications after user authentication and authorization. The solution has high scalability, flexibility, reliability and is complaint to industry Open Standard specifications. The software solution is :-
• Compliant to n-tier Java EE architecture.
• Seamless integration of enterprise systems with the existing business applications.
• Single sign-on feature.
• Open-standards platform supports web service.
• Extending existing applications for multiple devices.
• Utilizing full advantage of device features for management and interactions from a central location i.e. CRIS.
• User friendliness.
• End to end linux based System.
• Browser access via kiosks and thin clients access.
• Comprehensive data validations during capturing.
• Industry standards security features.
• Interface with SMS gateway for information dissemination and verification.
• Online pre-formatted and flexible period report generation.
• Highly flexible and high available solution with 24 x 7 uptime.
• Context sensitive help.
The software is in house software assisted by IBM & HCL in the designs and performance optimisation of the software. These steps are primarily for ensuring a robust and scalable architecture that conforms to open standards and promotes inter-operability duly taking care of the security concerns. The design and implementation of the CMS is expected to lead to the evolution of a truly robust architecture based on the principle of inter-operability and open standards.
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