IT Professionals

With the pressure to implement electronic government it is important that disparate systems are supported by an integrated overall architecture. UNI-form, CAPS Solutions’ industry leading collection of local government administrative systems delivers departmental-specific applications whilst using standards that tightly couple the core database to software components containing detailed business logic.

At the same time UNI-form satisfies requirements across the public Internet or within an intranet or extranet solution, where the use of open standards – such as XML – means that the applications in use can be interacted with as web services. When a user is working with a particular UNI-form module – say, building control – all the information he is generating and manipulating is stored in the central database, which can also serve other UNI-form modules (such as planning, or the corporate intranet, for instance). The result is that users in separate departments can benefit from the same piece of knowledge or see it on the maps each is generating.

Extending the value across government