What are the elements of the technical architecture of the ARS solution?
The AR System is based on a multi-tier client/server architecture summarized below: The client tier is the presentation layer that provides the user interface and user interaction aspects of the product. Most clients are for end-user interaction, but the tools for system administration are also clients. Clients can run within a web browser, on Windows, on Palm OS devices, on wireless devices such as cell phones, and in other environments as well. The mid tier provides components and add-in services that run on a web server, enabling you to deploy your applications on the web. The mid tier and the server tier together handle the processing of business rules. The server tier contains the AR System server, which controls workflow processes and access to databases and other data sources in the data tier. The data tier contains database servers and other data sources that can be accessed by the AR System server. The database server acts as the data storage and retrieval engine. The combined
