Features at a glance

• Acts as a certificate authority for participants, to guarantee authenticity and for data encryption
• Acts as a firewall between systems - an intermediary so that individual systems don't have to be public on the internet in order to share data
• Provides a standard data structure for common objects such as incidents, reports, contacts, requests etc.
• Manages inter-system dialogue, offers and acceptances, making it easy to negotiate information sharing arrangements
• Ensures all objects are securely transferred via encrypted (point-to-point), digitally signed emails with XML attachments
• Is always available and will automatically forward data queued while a participating system is unavailable
• Allows participating organisations to retain access to key information from other organisations, even if their systems are offline
• Includes fully documented and supported published APIs
• Is built using open standards (NIEM, CAP, RSS, GeoRSS, KML)