Giselle

Interoperability
In complex environments, interoperability of systems is a necessity. The easiest way to achieve interoperability would be if everyone adhered to a standard. Unfortunately, there is no single standard to choose from and therefore one is always forced to conduct an integration that bridges the discrepancies between the systems.

Giselle was designed with this fact in mind. Interoperability between Giselle and standards, products and services are achieved by its flexible architecture, which was designed with operability in mind. The data sources from which Giselle obtains data it manipulates or presents to the user are exposed via plug-ins. For every type of data source (e.g., a spatial database, an OpenGIS server, DB2,…), only a plug-in is needed, and the application can be configured to use it.

The document below lists standards, products and platforms with which Giselle has already been integrated (the Implemented column), or the integration is under development (the Development column). Any additional integration needs can be handled within a short time. An interesting proposition is interoperability of land and environment use databases across Europe. The major benefits of such an achievement would be that users who own land in several states will be able to use the same user interface to manipulate and review the data related to their land. EU officials could also query and analyse the land-use related data, again using the same user interface.

 Interoperability

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