Key Features
Powerfull Architecture
• SOA Multi-tier Architecture
• Truly scalable & distributable
• Advanced DB Replication
• Robust J2EE server side
• Web-Service (XML) Communication
• Hardware & Platform Independent
• Complex Workflow Orchestration
• Datareplication & Synchronization
• High Availability, FailOver, Disaster Recovery & Load Balancing Support
• DB Encryption support
• Support for Secure Communication & PKI infrastrcuture with AES 256 default support for highest security
Powerfull Platform
The state-of-the-art multi-tier tier software architecture implemented uses:
• Java J2EE Application Server & Business Logic Unit
• Content Management System
• Persistence Engine
• Service Layer & Orchestration Layer
• Audit & Logging Engine
• Enterprise Service Bus
• PKI Certificate Authority
• Enterprise Messaging Service (EMS) via Java Messaging Service (JMS) over the OpenMQ middleware
• Relational databases (Any SQL supported database supported)
• Web & Smart & Mobile client frontends
Powerfull Management
• Most advanced System Managament Service, User, Identity, Role, Rights, Site, Workstation and Workflow management for every service, user, workstation, etc.
• Synchronization Monitoring & Management
• Biometric & External Interface Monitoring & Management
• Alarm & Exception Handling
• System Monitoring & Reporting, including full log of all data to provide a complete audit trail
Identity Management
Annwyn - Summary
It is based on international standards, best practice and enterprise-class open source frameworks, wherever possible, and designed around XML and Web Services to guarantee interoperability with various systems and platforms and to make functional building blocks accessible over standard Internet protocols that are independent from platforms and programming languages. The communication between the different components of the system is based on XML messages, using SOAP under HTTP(S) protocol to transfer information across the system.
Annwyn is a truly modular, highly configurable, service-oriented framework within the Annwyn Application Server used to deliberate Avalon Biometrics solutions from specific platforms and providing them with the necessary enterprise-class robustness & reliability needed for the most demanding system. It follows the concepts of a Multi-Tier Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It unifies business processes by structuring & orchestrating large applications as an ad hoc collection of smaller modules called services.
Annwyn connects distributed / front-end / smart, web & mobile clients used for: Live or Form-based Enrolment with biometric capture & Quality Assurance, Border Management, Verification, Identification & Duplicate search tasks, Visa Application Management, etc. in a hierarchical way with the local, regional & centralized servers with complete inherited n-tier data replication & synchronization mechanisms including disaster recovery, failover and redundancy support.
The back-end system has all the business logic and service & workflow management built-in as well as all middleware products to support a high demanding enterprise system.
It features among other functionality i.e.:
• Business Logic Unit
• Standardized interface for biometric verification & identification & duplicate searches
• External system interfaces via web services or via the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Entire system administration (User, Site, Workstation, Group, Service, Workflow Administration)
• Card / Document Management System
• Identity Management
• SSO support and LDAP integration and
• PKI certificate Authority for encrypting all communications
• Logging, auditing, monitoring & reporting engines.
Key Features - Architecture
• High Performance, Cluster support for Scalability, Multiplatform – enabled, Portability
• High Flexibility due to Modular design built on industry standards for interoperability to have a future proof investment to cater for all possible system architectures and existing IT infrastructure, that can be easily adapted to meet customer-specific needs
• Support for smart & web-clients & mobile clients with support for embedded database independent from the J2EE architecture to cater for even more implementations and scenarios for our customers.
• Support for commercial middleware and enterprise Open Source components to deliver cost-savings to customers and remain platform independent and be flexible to adapt to any existing project environment and requirements.
• More efficiency & lower TOC & Risk Minimization due to a field proven unified platform that, which is based on international standards & designed for performance , scalability, flexibility, and interoperability
• Centralized secured data storage in encrypted databases (embedded and non-embedded)
• Full on & offline support with synchronous & asynchronous web services / messaging support in Java Message Queues with confirmed deliveries for reliable data transmission
• Logging & Reporting Engine
• Standardized Biometric System Interfaces
• External System & Legacy Interfaces via Web-Services & Enterprise Service Bus
• Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) called the JMSRA, that allows OpenMQ to be used by a J2EE compliant Application Server
• Relational Database ( Any SQL 92/ 2000 featured database - Oracle, MySQL Server & PostgreSQL recommended )
Key Features - Management
• Complete centralized User, Site, Workstation, Service, Workflow, Groups, Rights & Roles management
• Identity management & user authentication with SSO support & LDAP integration
• Workflow Management, Business process & Workflow Orchestration via jBPM
• Synchronization Monitoring
• Report Generation Management
Key Features - Functionality
• Inherited support for all common modalities, like fingerprint, photo, iris, signature, etc.
• Inherited support for verification, identification & duplicate search for biometric system (i.e. for Finger, Face, Iris, Signature,
• Full support for biometric enrolment, quality assurance, data processing, formatting, data preparation, data mining, crosschecking & data validation
• Full support for ALL MODULES and functionality within the Avalon portfolio for performing automated biometric image and data analysis, processing, formatting, and quality assurance, etc.
Key Features - Compliancy & Security
• Standard compliancy & ANSI NIST ITL 2007 record type exchange interface
• High infrastructure security with data, communication, transport, protocol & database level encryption support. All data is communicated over encrypted Web-Services using WS-Security which supports the PKCS#11 API and AES 256 transfer protocol encryption
• Logging of all data & actions within the system to provide a full audit trail and being able to monitor and report on it.
