Introduction to Genius ServerΒΆ

The core part of the Genius Platform constitutes ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and is composed of:

  1. BPM: Business Process Management and

  2. DMS: Document Management System.

Its common features are: license management, E-mail sending, report management, data warehouse management and address book management.

However, more specifically, what is the Genius Platform?

It is a Java application whose most important features are that:

  • it is usable both on Linux and Windows,

  • it can be installed both on internal and external hardware,

  • it can be clustered: users can create a Genius Server cluster (composed of more than one server), which has an external database, a balancer, and a file system, to ensure reliability and balancing,

  • it uses Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, H2 (it is an embedded DB whose data cannot be transferred to other databases) databases and

  • the Genius Server supports Abbyy OCR FineReader (only on Windows).

Note

The combination of Java and MS SQL Server is the most common.

The Genius Server is an application server, which has a Java component, hat needs a database and a file system to work correctly. It relies on some interfaces, which are based on the following protocols: REST, for http (port 8080); LPR (port 515) and TRAP (port 162). This means, that the Genius Server itself does not have an own graphic interface except for http, which is called the Web Interface.

Note

Unlike other application servers, the Genius Server contains Java libraries and supports more the one (8080) port.