New Product Platform
by Alexandre Sagala, Product Manager

Ortivus North America (NA) adopted, in late 2004, a new platform strategy for all of its public safety and EMS product offerings. In conjunction with the migration of products to the Microsoft .NET framework, all of Ortivus NA products will be moved on the new platform. Public Safety and EMS applications will share a common base in order to leverage product components and concepts across the product line, leading to a complete Public Safety/EMS product family.

Ortivus NA developers have selected the .NET framework to consolidate, simplify and rejuvenate the core platform, as well as all applications that depend on it. Ortivus NA now develops new features only within the new .NET framework, and over time, will move all products and features to the new platform.

The new product platform will also be complemented with a new set of reporting tools powered by Microsoft Reporting Services. The new reporting tools will support traditional (paper-oriented) reports, as well as interactive reports (web-based) complete with drill-downs, graphs and the possibility of linked reports. Advanced versions of the reporting tools will support report generation scheduling and subscription based automatic report delivery.

This new platform strategy will bring added value and benefit to Ortivus NA customers. All applications of the product platform will behave as one unique system rather than separate applications. A net benefit of this shared platform will be simplified information sharing between different applications. Purchasing other products within the Ortivus NA .net platform will add to the overall functionality of the system already in place and will not necessitate a total reconfiguration. User authentication and authorization will be managed from a central place and be applied to all installed applications.

By using the different applications encompassed in the Ortivus NA Public Safety/EMS offering, customers will be ensured a comprehensive and cost-effective solution that delivers real-time information supporting daily operations and decisions.