To provide a distributed system that allows users to remotely access the images of the documents in CIM we provide a WEB access to the images.  This will allow any user with login rights to access the images via a WEB interface and thus this does not require any specific software to be loaded on to the PC being used.  WEBCIM also provides total integration between COINS and CIM.  Users wanting to access WEBCIM do need access to the client’s network from their location in order to access the web server on which the CIM is installed.

In order to implement WEBCIM you will need to purchase the following:

• Progress WEBSPEED licences for NT
• Progress APP Server for NT
• Progress Web Client (Free with App Server licence)
• Progress Enterprise Data Base licence (EDB) for UNIX
• Java Servlet Container (eg Apache TOM Cat 4.1 Freeware)

Please Note:

The Document Management application CIM and associated databases are hosted on the UNIX server that hosts COINS, the document images are stored on an NT server that is accessible via your network. 

The WEBSPEED for NT licences allow users to access the CIM application from their PC’s, their requests for data are routed to the WEB Server (NT server) where WEBSPEED directs the request to the UNIX server and then the data is returned over the network and published via a Java Servlet Container (e.g.; Apache TOM Cat 4.1 freeware) in an Internet Explorer Session on the users PC.  The APP Server is used by the GUI Based CIM client that is used at the scanning / administration station when accessing the CIM application on the UNIX server.  The APP server increases the efficiency of this process and provides scalability to a WAN set up for the implementation of the GUI Client