Technology

The technology powering IGLOO's corporate social networking applications is a patent pending Web 2.0 platform created solely for building, managing and supporting virtual communities and corporate social networks.

The platform is comprised of a combination of software, hardware and managed services which are all delivered and hosted from a secure world class data center located in Canada.

The platform is entirely Web-based, object-oriented and modular and can scale to hundreds of thousands of users. The architecture is comprised of three distinct layers which isolate presentation, applications and data. This architecture is extremely secure and allows for seamless upgrades of individual components and facilitates virtually unlimited scalability.

The technology was developed with an acute awareness of the digital divide that exists between industrialized and lesser developed nations. Given the varying degree of technological development throughout the world, the technology platform can be used with multiple language sets and on low and high bandwidth connections.

Presentation Layer

The Presentation Layer uses XML and XSLT based technology to present a graphical user interface to users, regardless of the device being used. This includes:

• Themes — customize the look, feel and layout of an application using pre-set theme packs (CSS)
• Layout Templates — change the look, feel and layout of any folder (including the home page) in the system using a layout manager
• Application Interfaces — pre-defined interfaces by application type
• Page Editor — WYSIWYG online editor for customizing the look and feel of specific community pages
• Personal Area — each application offers private member areas to store and organize private and personal information

Business Logic Layer

The Business Logic Layer determines access to various applications offered by the platform to users through a variety of standard devices including web browsers, desktop applications, email clients (MS Outlook) and mobile devices (BlackBerry). This layer manages:

• Authentication — users must have a unique username and password authentication
• Permissions — every application has a pre-set of system wide permissions including "none","read", "write" and "full" which can changed depending on the application and security requirements
• Security — all transactions can be encrypted using the SSL protocol for secure transmission

The Business Logic Layer also manages the interaction and acess controls between a rich set of corporate social networking applications and tools:

• Control Panel
• Broadcasts
• Blogs
• Country Profiles
• Document Management
• Forums
• Notifications
• Photo Galleries
• RSS
• Web Search
• Videos
• Wikis

Data Layer

The Data Layer securely stores and manages all user and community data. This data is only accessible by the Business Logic Layer. It enables the system to harvest, index, catalog, publish and report on all network data.