DC-Flex - the hub of any data collection solution

DC-Flex

DC-Flex is at the heart of our Data Collection solutions.

DC-Flex is a Data Collection engine, designed to integrate networks of data collection devices with your application host systems.

DC-Flex Manages

Fixed Data Collection Devices
Hand Held Terminals
Palm Handheld PCs
PDAs
Radio Data Terminals
Wired and Wireless LANs
Web Browsers
Weigh-scales
SCADA equipment interfaces
Network/Delimited Files

DC-Flex supports a wide range of best of breed devices from a number of key suppliers including, Feedback Data and Symbol Technologies.

Target Systems

Microsoft platforms
IBM iSeries platforms
Enterprise platforms
Unix platforms
Multiple Concurrent Hosts
LAN, WAN and Radio Networks
Multiple Database Management systems, including SQL,Oracle, DB2
Web Browser protocols (including HTTP and XML)

Quality, Security and Resilience

DC-Flex has been developed using the latest open architecture methodologies. This ensures complete compatibility with all key technologies, which in turn allows us to continue to support suppliers existing devices, as well as allowing for future devices to be managed by DC-Flex.

DC-Flex provides full buffering, transaction re-processing and transaction audit trail. All transactions can be defined to included operator, date, time, and collection device used. Optionally it is possible to encrypt the transaction data, if this is required.

Device Management Display

DC-Flex provides a powerful network control and status enquiry suite, detailing:

Downloading of programs to data collection terminals
Downloading of validation tables to terminals
Downloading of terminal configurations
Terminal status monitoring
Data transmissions to target monitoring
Host communications monitoring
Transaction buffering
Transaction definition