Electronic application processing

The online system is developed with Visual C++ and Visual Basic in COM technology. It runs in a proprietary user interface and the data is stored on an SQL Server. The application is implemented as a smart client: whereas the stateless components control DB access on the MS Transaction Server (MTS), the stateful components are located on each client computer with the business process logic. Within these components, there is a separation between the business process logic and the user interface. Data is exchanged between the COM layers via ADO record sets. The system works independently of the inventory systems. This enables both high availability and the use of notebooks. Data is transferred to the inventory systems asynchronously in a batch run. The system is designed to be client-compatible and to work with multiple currencies. Many functions can be controlled externally via database tables so that the system can be adjusted without accessing the source code.