A mobile thin-client, Fortis access point

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• A mobile thin-client, Fortis access point

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What is Fortis Portal?

• Fortis Portal is a rendering engine with a
  simplistic, thin-client web interface designed
  for those customer facing businesses or
  geographically distributed environments that
  require a remote or mobile Fortis access point

• Zero foot print on the client
• No ActiveX controls
• Access to Fortis documents outside a firewall
  thru port 80
• Secure Fortis environment using existing Fortis
  security credentials
• Portal by default consumes a Fortis view license

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What is Fortis Portal?

• Standard rendering to PDF documents
• Support for Acrobat Reader/Professional 5, 6 or 7
• Load balancing on multiple web servers
• Access to Fortis documents from Mac computing
  environments
• Read-only access to Fortis documents
• Update of data is available with customization
• Single sign-on authentication capabilities
• Only consumes a Fortis license during login,
  search and render
• License is released when the web service function
  has been executed
• Direct access to documents or queries via URL
  parameters
• http//portal IP/QueryPrompts.aspx?QueryTranscr
  ipts

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Fortis Portal Web Services (WS)

• CheckASPUserAuth
• CheckASPUserName
• CheckAuthUser
• CheckAuthUserAndDatabase
• FileExistsInPDFTemp
• GetDatabases
• GetDocTypeFields
• GetDocumentFields
• GetFolderDocTypes
• GetFolderDocs
• GetFolderDocsByDocType
• GetFolders
• GetJPG
• GetJPGURL
• GetOrginal
• GetOrginalFileName
• GetPDF
• GetPDFURL
• GetQueryPrompts

• Benefits of JUST Web Services (WS)
• Customer can build their own interface
• Web services can be called without an interface
• Great out-of-box solution for web integration
• Extensible for use by other applications
• Allows better licensing efficiencies

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What is Fortis Portal for Mobile Devices?

• A platform independent, text interface that
  allows delivery of documents to just about any
  web device
• The same thing as core Fortis Portal except it
  uses a text interface
• Provides both browse folder and query
  functionality
• Standard rendering to JPG (for Blackberrys) or
  PDF as option

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What is Fortis Portal for Mobile Devices?

• Fully customizable interface using standard
  Microsoft .Net technologies

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Fortis Portal for Mobile Devices

• Mobile device interface has been tested on the
  following devices
• Blackberry 7250, 7290, 7130
• Trio (Palm OS)
• Trio (Windows CE OS)
• Samsung Pocket PC (Windows Pocket PC OS)
• Web enabled cell phones
• Mobile device interface works on just about any
  web browser tested on
• MAC Safari
• MAC Firefox
• Mozilla
• Opera
• Netscape
• IE 5, 6, 7
• Linux

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Fortis Portal Topology
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Requirements

• Fortis Portal Web Server
• IIS 5 Web server located outside of the
  firewall.
• ASP.Net (2.0) application.
• Services can customize to integrate into existing
  portals.

• Fortis Portal Backend
• IIS 5 Web server install on existing Fortis
  Application Server.
• Web Service Provider
• Web Service Provider can be utilized for any Web
  Service based application.

Both Pieces can run on a single machine for
Internal LAN/Intranet configurations
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Fortis Portal for Mobile Devices
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Try it Out!

• We have setup a demo of Fortis Portal on our
  internal servers here in Branford, CT - you can
  try it out using the external IP addresses
  provided below
• Fortis Portal Mobile Version
• http//12.0.32.181/fortisportaltext
• Fortis Portal Standard Version
• http//12.0.32.181/fortisportal

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More Information

• ALL pertinent information is available here
• http//www.westbrooktech.com/services/solutions/co
  nsulting_products.htm
• Types of collateral available
• Narrated movies
• PowerPoint's
• Topology diagrams
• Recorded web casts
• Data sheets
• Pricing

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• Have a question or need additional help
• Jonathan Langdon-Phillips
• Director of Professional Services
• Tel [phone] ext. 623
• E-mail jlangdon_at_westbrooktech.com