iShare
Data integration and publishing platform
iShare is a data integration and publishing platform, that is to say it pulls data from a number of different service delivery systems as well as other data sources and enables them to be combined in one glorious mashup and then provides ways of sharing, interrogating or publishing it internally across an intranet or externally via the Internet, through websites or via email. iShare also enables citizen interaction to report a fault request a service and even vote or register an opinion.
Development has always been client led and we have been genuinely inspired by where they are taking us and iShare.
Architecture
There has been a lot of ‘noise’ about open source software but despite some criticism it is now largely accepted that there is a place for it in commercial applications..
Modules
iShare is a modular platform which means it deployment can be flexible. The basic iShare package includes, Data Share, My House, My Maps, My Nearest, and Studio. This represents the minimum iShare deployment. Customers can add additional modules as the need arises or sign up for our Open Enterprise Agreement. Here are brief descriptions for each iShare module:
Integrated Systems
iShare is extremely flexible and being GIS and Back Office system agnostic it has been built to integrate. In fact at last count (July 2010) we'd integrated over 50 systems and external web services from a variety of suppliers.