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A Federated Approach to Managing Information


Features and Benefits
Unique Federated Information Management Approach
  • Index rather than convert
  • Keep the richness and meaning of your information in your favorite formats (no conversion)
  • Find information via spatial or non-spatial criteria
  • View/Edit using your favorite viewing and editing tools, Applications can be launched directly from the map interface
  • Manage, index, edit, and printing/plotting
    • Structured information with schemas such as spatial databases, XFM DGNs, Shapefiles
    • Unstructured information such as DGN, DWG, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF
Document Service
  • Ability to store spatial and non-spatial files
  • Scalable solution
  • Ability to manage complex files with references
    (for example: DGN, SHP, MXD, DWG)
  • CAD Standards Management
  • Multiple application integration
    • MicroStation v7, v8, XM
    • All app based on MicroStation
    • AutoCAD 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000
    • ArcMap (ESRI) 9.X
    • Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, 97
Spatial Indexing/Searching Service
  • Ability to quickly find files based on:
    • Properties (size, type, date, etc)
    • Custom attributes
    • Spatial locations (extents)
    • Non-spatial contents (text)
    • Spatial contents (features)
    • Ability to quickly find features based on:
    • Spatial criteria
    • Non-Spatial criteria
  • Background map support
    • Background map: referenced map that shows the region of interest
    • Can be composed of multiple DGN files
    • Support raster attachment
    • Map created on the server and then published to the client machines
    • For a given data source you can have as many maps as needed
    • Support scale dependant display
      • For example: Streets show at 1:5000 and street names show up only at 1:1000
  • Projection Management
    • On-the-fly projection of spatial locations over the background map to a defined universal projection.
  • Assigning spatial locations:
    • A spatial location can:
      • Be manually defined
      • Be inherited from the parent folder
      • Be scanned from the file* (auto extract and batch)
      • Be imported from an external file
      • Be calculated (for a folder and files *)
      • Be inferred form an attribute value
    • It can be a gradual process (like with any other meta data)
  • Text Indexing (Office, DGN, DWG, PDF)
    • Run on the server on a scheduled basis
    • Can be used as research criteria
    • Can be combined with other criteria
  • Feature indexing
    • Run on the server on a scheduled basis
    • Geometry and attributes are indexed
Workflow Service
  • Organization members need to work together in a structured, secured, collaborative way
  • Workflow is a set of states (for example: initial, design, 75% design, complete) successively traversed by an object
  • For each state different security can be enforced on objects stored in the system 
  • For each state it is also possible to have specific communication enforced through e-mails.
  • The Federated System helps organization members get the right information at the right time in the right context

Spatial Database Service
  • Excellent Oracle Database Citizen
    • Create 100% Oracle Spatial Standard data
    • Use Oracle Spatial metadata and coordinate systems
    • Use Oracle standard versioning (Workspace Manager)
    • Not requiring any proprietary schemas, tables or fields (no MSLink)
    • Implementation reviewed by Oracle Spatial team
    • Coordinate Systems support with on the fly reprojection
    • Text and Feature-Linked text
    • Coded Domains
  • Multi-User Editing via Oracle Standard Versioning
    • Works with Oracle Workspace Manager to enable multi-user editing workflows
    • Supports long transaction workflows
    • Study different scenarios with an optimistic approach, no information is locked from users at any time 
    • Includes reconciliation tools to resolve conflicts
      • Identify, browse, and visualize conflicts
      • Visualize all versions connected in the database
      • Conflict Inspector assists user in finding and fixing conflicts
      • Conflict resolution tools for geometry and attribute conflicts
      • Commit reconciled version
    • Modifications tracked so only updates posted
  • Short and Long editing sessions using database standard Oracle database lock
    • Works with Oracle session locking for enabling short editing sessions
    • Works with Oracle Workspace Manager to enable long editing session where persistent locking is required
  • Time Component Support
    • Track Edit History in the Database
    • Query back in time—for example: “show me the census blocks as they were on the Census 2000”
    • Act on a feature now and have it reflected in the future
    • Query in the future—for example: “show me this planned section of highway as it will be in 2007”
    • Produce historical maps and reports
    • Supports Oracle Valid Time
    • Supports Oracle History
  • Data Loading Tool
    • Batch loading conversion tool allowing converting DGN, DGN/XFM,
    • DGN/MsLink and GeoGraphics project to SQL and SQL Loader scripts for batch loading operation
  • Web Services Based
    • Service Oriented Architecture allows performing extraction and posting using standard SOAP Web services
    • Creates simplified user interface and then simply call the Web services for performing operations
Plotting Service
  • Multi-format Plotting and Publishing support
    • CAD formats: MicroStation DGN, AutoCAD DWG
    • Industry-standard raster files
    • Microsoft Office formats
    • Adobe PDF
    • Output to Microsoft Windows printer drivers and InterPlot drivers
    • Direct output for digital offline content like Adobe PDF, DPR, TIFF, JPG, or CALS digital formats
  • Multiple Print Interfaces
    • Common dialog interfaces for both MicroStation and AutoCAD
    • Organizer interface for batch printing
    • Command line interfaces for batch submissions
  • Batch Plotting
    • Multi-format set creation from MicroStation, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office,
    • Raster, and PDF formats
    • Automatically apply common project settings for more efficient set creation
    • Save and maintain pre-defined sets for future reuse
    • Plot entire sets or a select set immediately with a simple print command
    • On-demand re-plot of saved sets
  • Custom Presentation
    • Control element style and plot order at plot time
    • Text substitution for information such as time, date, file path, and username
    • Text extraction for attribute information
    • Element definition, including custom line style definition, element display order control, and area-fill of closed elements with a specified color or pattern
    • Apply audio, video, bookmarks, internal PDF document links, Web URL Links, and attachments
    • Exploit Geospatial Server feature information for the styling, creation of bookmarks, navigation aides, and additional component information
  • Content Rich PDF Output
    • Publish your specifications from the same interface you publish your drawings to produce a more complete set of deliverables in one file
    • Navigate from drawings to specifications by including PDF navigation aids such as bookmarks and links
    • Navigation aids such as hyperlinks, bookmarks, and searchable text as well as including non-PDF file attachments make the PDF more discoverable
    • Security options include placing of digital signatures fields and applying digital rights for password file protection, rights to edit, and rights to print
  • Digital Archiving
    • Fully rendered plot viewing and printing
    • Device-independent and multi-sheet printing
    • Scaled plots
    • View manipulation tools (Zoom, Pan, Fit, Rotate, Window definition)
    • Productivity tools (Measure, Bookmark, Copy)
    • File display control (File and Level information display on/off)
  • Detailed Design Comparisons
    • Ability to graphically compare two plots at different states
    • Identification of deleted, added, and modified elements
    • User-defined display preferences
  • Plot Tracking
    • Error reporting for easy trouble-shooting
    • Accounting for activity reporting per output device
    • Ability to export activity data to be used by applications such as Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel
  • Full Featured Printer Drivers
    • Integrated with the Windows Print System to support printing from Bentley applications as well as other Windows applications
    • Enhanced printer controls to set advanced document property settings to control print behavior
    • Efficient printing of engineering drawing as well as high-density raster files, including transparency
    • Support for wide range of small and wide-format print devices manufactured from Hewlett-Packard, KIP, Oce, Ricoh, and Xerox

Security
  • Complete security system
  • Integrated with windows security
  • Security based on workflow state, folder, document, events
  • Audit of changes