InfoShip®
Centrally Manageable
InfoShip is a hybrid application.  It combines the speed and reliability of a standard desktop application with the centrally manageable, fault tolerant aspects of a web thin-client to create the perfect application for the warehouse environment.

All custom aspects of the InfoShip system are maintained on the server.  Copies of resources such as scripts and Behaviors are cached locally on the workstation for faster start-ups over low-bandwidth connections.  Local resources are checked against the server for changes at startup.  If any resource has changed, only the modified resource is reloaded.  Changes can be implemented not only at startup, but also while InfoShip is running.  If a critical change is required to the business rules, such a change can be dynamically pushed out from the server while InfoShip is processing shipments--no need to stop processing and restart the application.

Central Management Features:

Profile Based All custom aspects of the InfoShip system are based on profiles.  This includes everything from field names, prompts, display order, business rule execution, etc.  If a workstation in the warehouse goes down, simply install the InfoShip application on a new system and point it to the DMS Server.  Once a profile is chosen from the list returned from the server the fresh InfoShip install will configure itself accordingly.  The workstation can be up and running within minutes, minimizing downtime.  Two typical profiles are LTL and small parcel profiles.  Profiles can also be used to distinguish between warehouses when a central server is responsible for multiple warehouses.

XML Configuration Stores The entire configuration of a system--everything that makes the particular InfoShip and DMS system unique to a particular customer--can be exported from the server into file based in a simple XML format for storage.  If anything ever happened to the server and backup server, a server configuration could be restored by simply importing this configuration file into a new, empty DMS Server database.  The configuration in the screen shot to the left shows an XML configuration file as it looks loaded into Microsoft XML Notepad.  Since it is a simple text file, it could also be opened, viewed, and edited with the Windows Notepad application.   DMS Manager The DMS Manager program allows for the monitoring of workstations connected to the server.