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Dexterra Architecture & Components
Dexterra is designed to extend the power of the enterprise to the field. Business processes that have traditionally been impossible to govern and managed in the field are now fully manageable.

The Dexterra architecture is simple, scalable, and extensible while utilizing standard technologies and services where possible to provide rapid development of applications, a robust and reliable infrastructure, and be easy to integrate into existing infrastructures.

The Dexterra solution extensively utilizes Microsoft’s .NET and .NET Compact Framework technologies. VS.NET and the .NET Compact Framework not only simplifies the product development tasks, but also opens up a larger compatible community of applications and over 4 million skilled developers able to configure the Dexterra solution.

Dexterra developed a set of core .NET Services that are wrapped with Web Services for interoperability. One example of a Dexterra Web Service is a connector that enables our technology to interoperate with any ODBC and/or Web Services API.

Dexterra achieved it’s design goals by delivering a set of .NET services ensuring maximum reliability, reusability, availability, performance and cost predictability.

Microsoft’s .NET Framework enabled our development team to build a technology platform designed for interoperability and scalability. Dexterra took advantage of the .NET Framework libraries and Visual Studio .NET thus enabling more development and testing time to build features and functionality as opposed to infrastructure and communications development. Additionally, Dexterra’s Web Services development orientation allows for our core services to be consumed by a broad range of technologies.

The physical architecture consists of the following functional components:

Connectors; which non-invasively integrate the Enterprise Applications into the Dexterra solution

Dexterra Server; which is a meta-application that provides information, applications and business processes to the Dexterra Client, and ensures managed data integrity between Dexterra and the Enterprise Applications

Dexterra Client; which controls the role based business processes using ForceFlow, FieldFlow and FormFlow techniques, and the communications to the Dexterra Server over the wired and wireless Internet

In addition, configuration of the Dexterra Client applications, data-integrity management, ‘hyper-data-links’ and other aspects of the Dexterra Server are carried out using the Dexterra Administrator. Visual Studio .NET is used by application developers and administrators wanting to configure or customize the Dexterra Client applications and functions with utilizing Dexterra’s plug-in technology for VS.NET.


Other articles within - Technology Library/Key Technical Information
• Key Technical Information • Protecting Data Integrity • Dexterra Architecture & Components • ForceFlow • FormFlow • FieldFlow • Dexterra Update Web Service		• Rapidly deployable, non-disruptive access to enterprise applications • Governing and auditing business processes with Dexterra • Hyper-Data-Links • Dexterra Client Field Application • The Dexterra Server Meta-Application

• Overview of Concepts • What is Effective Mobilization		• Enterprise Application Integration

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