How does our Applications work?

Solutions for Remote Data Access.

We use ADO! ADO enables your application to directly gain access to and modify data sources (sometimes called a two-tier system). For example, if your connection is to the data source that contains your data, then that is a direct connection in a two-tier system.

However, we have accessed data sources indirectly through an intermediary such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). This arrangement is sometimes called a three-tier system. IIS is a client/server system that provides an efficient way for a local, or client, application to invoke a remote, or server, program across the Internet or an intranet. The server program gains access to the data source and optionally processes the acquired data.

Our application's Web pages are written in ASP and HTML, which connects to IIS.
Further, we have added a Simple ActiveX Form for demonstration purposes only.  IIS in turn connects to the actual data source, retrieves the data, processes it then returns the processed information to our application.

We developed a simple, efficient application programming interface that supports three-tier systems, and returns information as easily as if it had been retrieved on a two-tier system. Remote Data Service (RDS) is this interface.