Cadastral enterprise automated decision support, examination and analysis servers.

PlanTest Server provides a full enterprise solution for automated examination of digital plans and transactions. Using your site customisations, fully automated processing of a submission will provide a near instant evaluation. Results can be further investigated by other PlanTest products. PlanTest Server can process submitted files, returning analysis results, or pass the results onto other aspects of your enterprise system.

It can be configured to provide data only responses, or to provide mapping information to the PlanTest Web client. The Server uses the same core models as other PlanTest products, so the customisations for your schema, tests, workflows and views are available.

Support for PlanTest Web clients everywhere: mobile, portals and distributed teams.

Our web application depends on the PlanTest Server for analysis of subject plans and custom transactions. The web app is designed for easy distribution and management for IT, and a simpler interface for the user. The Server completes all automated testing and formulates maps and analysis results for the user of the web application to review, investigate and make decisions.

PlanTest Server does the hard work; including anything that can be automated and performed on the server. This means the client hardware can be fairly lightweight, with typical one-click installs to the browser.

Your schema, files, databases and workflows.

PlanTest Server uses the same customisations as PlanTest Desktop Pro. All schema extensions to the core Seaconis Cadastral Objects are available simply by setting the configurations. This applies to workflows and tests as well. Multiple configurations may be used, and different workflows employed based on plan or transaction characteristics. Custom ETL modules that read and write to you standard digital transfer files are always available. This is a 'One Customisation, Multiple Products' approach.

Schema adaption includes fitting the model at the high level of basic features (such as parcels, lines, and points) to added feature properties, enumerations and relationships. You do not need to change to the Seaconis model in your database or files. Part of our work is to build specific transfer functions (using our ETL modules) which will support your existing stores. Best of all, the schema customisation is reused for all PlanTest products - as it is plug-in to the core PlanTest modules.

The road to automation.

If you want to completely automate your examination process, you will need a test for each step in the process. More tests means more automation. In general, full automation will be a difficult goal to achieve, since some of you steps may not be easily programmed or require considerable professional judgement. However, the more tests you have, the more efficient PlanTest will be in saving you time, resources and money.

Of course, the idea is to provide more automation of analysis and tests. As part of PlanTest implementation, we create tests specific to your jurisdiction requirements and preferences. We have a large base of generic and jurisdictional tests. For some tests, only minor changes will be required to make them work for you. Tests can be added incrementally without modification of core PlanTest modules.

Maps or No Maps?

Our server can use ArcGIS to provide maps to PlanTest Web clients. This requires a license from ESRI for their server technology. If you already have an ESRI license, for web portals or map servers, then PlanTest Server can use that server to serve its maps. In most cases, there will not be a heavy load on the ESRI map server.

PlanTest Sever can also be used as an analysis only engine, and have no ESRI technology dependencies, and therefore no need for the expensive ESRI licenses. Only the mapping service needs ESRI technology. PlanTest Server's ETL modules can provide the loading of data for analysis , and since PlanTest's analysis uses the Seaconis cadastral objects (extended for your jurisdiction) all analysis and reporting will still be available to you.

Features

  • ETL Data Loaders/Converters
  • Automated Examination
  • Survey Analysis
  • Cadastral Analysis
  • Server for Web Apps
  • Server for Web Portals
  • Integrates with GIS
  • Deeply Customisable
  • Data Analysis Version
  • Analysis and Maps Version

Powerful ETL Architecture.

PlanTest Server is purposed to provide a complete workflow. This includes the ability to efficiently move data from transfer files or databases into PlanTest for analysis, and to write data to other files and databases at the end of the examination workflows. We have built a solid Extract,Transform, Load (ETL) framework as the basis for all data migration, conversion, loading and export functions.

Though ETL modules are generally only found in larger database systems, we have put considerable effort and resources into the creation of the ETL as it is the key to PlanTest integration into diverse cadastral systems. As part of the implementation of your PlanTest system, we would typically create loaders for your standard data file formats from surveyors, and any other transfer formats. This allows data submissions to a web portal. We also create the ETL configuration to load into your custom cadastral schema, and to your databases or file archives.