High Availability, Reliability & Scalability 

• Provides the failover capability by reserving redundant replicas of the application and the database surviving the single point of failure (SPOF) problem
• Provides the load balancing capability to ensure a production real time performance
• Presents a full stack clustering solution to grantee a theoretical unlimited expanding
  
Accessibility & Usability

• Web based for high accessibility and usability
• Accepts a multi-languages input from the user (UTF8)
• Easy to use, self descriptive and modular web interface
• Supports AJAX to provide rich interactive interface
  
  

Integration

• Capable of interacting with other applications and communities solutions in a fast reliable way (e.g. through JMS messages, web services … etc)
  
• Capable of dealing with other third party solutions (weighbridges,….)
  
• Capable of integrating with wireless in-field devices (e.g. RDT devices)
  
• Capable of dealing with the industry related standards (e.g. EDI documents)
  
• Capable of integrating with banks through secured channels

Portability

• Hardware independent, in its architecture and design
  
• Platform independent, in its architecture and design
  
• Database independent, in its architecture and design

Configurability

• Easy and fast installation and configuration process for the solution and its external components (if it contains)
  
• Flexible reconfiguration process without the need for new installation
  
• Ability to configure, stop or start the solution feature whenever required

Robustness

• All business flows are done in transactional fashion, thus, all system data is consistent all the time
  
• Efficient resource locking mechanism
  
• Validates the users’ inputs for correctness (appropriate data type, value in range etc ….)

Access Control

• Provides flexible efficient user management schema that allows access control covering all levels of the solution from higher level solution components to user interface controls level (e.g. buttons, check boxes…etc)
  
• Capable of giving privilege to an entity (role), then assign these roles to the solution users
  
• Capable of assigning extra privileges to solution users individually
  
• Capable of assigning many roles to one user
  
• Capable of assigning limited privileges for users and/or roles to access its own resources only
 

Security

• Survives the fatal attacks on the application (e.g. SQL injection)
  
• Survives the network related attacks (e.g. eavesdropping or request repeating)
  
• Manages the user session in an efficient secure way (e.g. provides session time out)
  
• All processing is done on server's side not the client's side
  
• Provides a secure channel for critical financial operation (e.g. bills payment)

Portal Support

• Has capability to expose portlets for services on request
  
• Supports Single Sign On (SSO) capability for web interface integration with other portal compliant solutions
  
• Gives the end user the ability to personalize the web interface

Reporting

• Comes with an efficient reporting solution providing the end users with full awareness of the current status of the port resources (yards, berths … etc)
  
• Reports the status of the port resources at the moment or at any previous moment
  
• Generates analytical and statistical evaluation reports that help in the decision making process
  
• Produces printable portable reports for the offline usage (e.g. in PDF format)
  
• Provides a real time notification solution for some critical events through a reliable fast notification methodology (e.g: SMS)

Administration

• Provides extensive and efficient audit trailing solution
  
• Provides a log with low overhead
  
• Provides fast, customizable periodical or scheduled backup solution