Conceptually, the Perceptive Content architecture consists of the following logical tiers:
The Client Tier consists of our out-of-the-box client applications, which provide rich user interfaces for Windows desktop and browser users, and the class of clients that can be written by our customers and partners using web services.
The Business Tier is the core of the Perceptive Content document management, imaging, and workflow system. This tier processes requests from the Client Tier, provides the business logic to perform the requests, and communicates with the Data Tier to search, retrieve, manipulate, and store document images and associated metadata. This tier is wrapped by a rich set of web services that enable customers to easily extend the product and use it as content infrastructure within their larger enterprise systems.
The Data Tier consists of the components that store data: the object repository for the document objects and a relational database for the corresponding metadata.
These logical tiers work together to provide the features, performance, and security you need for a bestof-breed document management, imaging, and workflow system delivered more quickly than any comparable system in the market today.