DANAOS “PORT OF CALLS” APPLICATION Danaos “Port of Calls” is a mission critical application designed for Port Authorities and Ship Management companies to ease the submission procedures of required compliance documents. Ports are a key component of a nation’s marine transportation industry. As the owners and managers of prime waterfront property, port authorities and port terminal operators have a unique responsibility to adopt sustainable practices that preserve natural resources while ensuring economic growth and safety. DANAOS Management Consultants, a company with a long time history in cutting edge software development for the maritime industry, has developed after years of research an advanced Rule Compliance System to help streamline the Compliance procedures of Port Community Systems, Port Single Windows with national and international web portals, manage the data collection and automation of statistics reports.
DANAOS “Port of Calls” utilizes a single platform with a comprehensive user interface, a built-in rule specific scripting language, and a storage facility ready to directly read and write various files ready for the automation & orchestration of Data Flow in an easy-to-use administration environment.
DANAOS “Port Of Calls” central data repository offers: •
High level of flexibility
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Customizable structure
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User defined validations
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Support for units of measurement
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Integration with external systems including Danaos Enterprise
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Historical data storage, Optimized for current state, Provides data for past states
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Compatible with legacy database tools, Report writers, etc
Fully functional, real-time alerting mechanism
Forms - The link to the outside world
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The I/O interface of Danaos PORT of CALLS provides information to the system, collects information from the system and presents it appropriately.
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Various formats are compatible: Excel, Word, Infopath, Web services and XML as well as PDF
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Optimized for batch information retrieval for Arrays, Groups, Forms
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Form training (input) specifies where the valuable information is and appoints this information to the appropriate data structure, checks for integrity and assigns validations for each piece of information or as a whole
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Automated template-based form training methodology, manual training or combination of both
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Visualize which operational data were affected by each form
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Easily compare form data with current operational data
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Rules - Validate, automate, orchestrate
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The behavioral pattern of Danaos Port of Calls
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Monitor data as they enter the system
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Decide as to allow updates and/or proceed to other actions
RED: the build-in rule specific scripting language •
Has Rules, Expressions, Simple calculations that evaluate to a result
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Instant form data acquisition
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Structured language constructs permitting execution and flow control
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Can be used as reusable blocks in order to compose other functions or expressions
Workflows and Alerting System
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The notification mechanism of Danaos “Port of Calls”
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Draw users’ attention for important events
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Distributes and collects data
Workflows •
Events as hooks for actions
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Successful parsing
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User validations
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Rule compliance
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Rule non-compliance
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Alerts and approvals
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Automated email
Actions act as composition blocks •
Are performed in parallel by the system
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Sequential execution depending on action type
Comprehensive Data Dictionary
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