Technical Specifications
The primary features of the GSI Common Technology Platform are:
- Industry-standard infrastructure, including Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and Microsoft SQL database
- Multilingual database and Web interface, configurable for any language
- Front-end reporting interface that allows CSOs to directly input information on more than 180 narrative and financial fields and upload documents in a variety of formats
- Built-in workflow processes that can be flexibly applied to review, verify, and manage CSO participants and their data.
- Configurable search engine for accessing individual CSO records
- Built-in upload utility for back-end import of bulk data and/or images
- Built-in extract utility for producing bulk downloads from the database
- User-friendly, graphical interface for administrators to manage their own sites’ language, navigation, content, database, and CSO records; enabling full site administration with minimal technical skills.
- Flexible hosting and management solutions to meet specific data security requirements
- Interoperable database structure, allowing both platform participants and independent databases to be searched and accessed from a centralized international search page.
- A highly leveraged, cost-distributed model for low-cost data hosting and maintenance