Perceptive Software has carefully designed Perceptive Content to be modular and flexible so that the components of the system run on a single server class machine or distributed to run across multiple server machines, depending on the scale and volume needs of the customer. The Perceptive Content architecture ensures that the Perceptive Content Server manages and executes all client requests from the Business Tier. There are two benefits to this architecture: first, it eliminates any client-side, database server connectivity requirements, and second, it allows the collocation or distribution of all key server applications, which can run on and communicate with different servers and operating systems.
The Business Tier provides a rich set of functionality to the Client Tier as described in the following paragraphs.