ECDP

ECDP

ECDP has been conceived, designed and implemented by EUROPEAN DYNAMICS to address in an optimum manner the requirements of Customs 2007, Customs 2013, as well as a wide range of the needs of national Customs applications of EU’s member states administrations and even beyond.

Customs 2007 and 2013, amongst others, aim to the creation of a European paperless Electronic Customs environment. Their supporting applications are heavily characterized from:

  • A Common Legal Framework and Control Mechanisms.
  • A Common Business Model, Rules and Practices.
  • Common Functional and Technical Specifications.
  • The Heavy exchange of electronic messages via CCN/CSI between EU member states Customs administrations.
  • Common target Audience (External Users, MSA Officials, etc.).

The ECPD encapsulates all these common characteristics and behaviour in a flexible platform (Design, Architecture, Components and Services), while it retains simultaneously all the necessary flexibility for accommodating national requirements and integration with existing national Customs applications. While its components and services are fully compliant with the relevant Customs 2007 and 2013 technical and functional specifications, the Customer still has the freedom to influence the final shape of the applications to best serve its own needs.

The ECDP’s unique architecture, services and components allow the quick assembly of custom-made Custom’s applications from a number of services and components which offer:

  • Cutting edge technical solutions.
  • Full Technical and Functional Compliance with the EC’s Customs 2007 and 2013 specifications and requirements.

Most importantly, the ECDP comes almost “ready” with the core EMCS application pre-assembled and pre-configured. Similar assemblies for ECS-2, NCTS-4, AEO and EORI are under preparation and they are scheduled for the near future.

Consciously and by design decision, ECDP is a Platform and not a Product. Reality proved that this decision is absolutely correct, since in numerous occasions the EC’s specifications call for the national Administrations to decide on the implementation, to choose from a number of suggested implementations or to integrate with national existing applications. No COTS product like the ones known in the market and based on a rigid approaches, can foresee this.

The ECDP approach is a best breed between the two worlds: Product and Bespoke Development. The required assembly time (development) of a Customs Solution based on ECDP is particularly short and significantly lower in comparison to bespoke development.

Moreover, the ECDP’s flexible architecture and design allows the addition of Customs applications like NCTS-4, ECS2, etc. without disturbing or re-designing the existing applications. All these are possible thanks to the innovative data repository design and the common services application bus. The seamless addition and integration of new Customs applications does not stop here. A common master user interface handles the main functions be it EMCS or NCTS or ECS.

The ECDP aims to provide all the necessary mechanisms and services for the optimal development of Customs Application Systems through a modular, service-oriented architecture which, amongst others, provides and supports:

  • The communication via all suitable and applicable CCN/CSI channels.
  • The exchange of all applicable predefined messages, while ensuring absolute conformance to the structural, technical and business rules that govern them.
  • Homogeneous management of the various data formats and unified method for accessing and presenting message information, independently of the original message format.
  • The definition and easy re-organisation (as requirements change) of all necessary workflows and operational rules.
  • The integration of additional workflows and operational rules (business rules) required for compliance with national practices and requirements.
  • Both EU and National Movements via the same procedures and mechanisms.
  • The flexible interconnection (loose application coupling) with third party application systems, both in terms of Public Information Systems and the level of interconnection with private entities (Economic Operators, citizens, etc.).
  • Integrated Management Services Mechanism for the Supervision, Auditing, Logging and Administration of every process and process.
  • RBAC Compliant Authentication and Authorization Mechanism.
  • Extended support for External Users via Multiple Input Channels (Web Forms, XML File Upload, Web Services).

The ECDP supports the core notion of “Business Movement”, where a Business Movement may be any Customs Movement, ranging from an EMCS movement to an ECS or NCTS movement, etc. The system monitors Business Movements while the User can drill down to the individual messages. In all cases the User may opt for a message based view, as opposed to a movement view, retaining simultaneously the references and a tight correlation with relevant movements.

The ECDP is smart enough to create a Calendar with “to-do” lists, and to politely remind the user on pending activities, expired timers and for cases where immediate actions are required. The same pattern applies for errors and warnings.

An innovative Web User Interface emulating the richness of Client-Server applications utilizing AJAX calls ensures that users have a smooth, pleasant and effective experience. Thanks to iSEE, ECDP’s Web Form Generator, the process of developing rich and highly interactive web user interfaces, which meet the user requirements, fully exploiting the capabilities offered by modern navigation software (Web Browsers), while taking into account their limits and restrictions, is greatly simplified.

The ECPD is developed using Oracle’s latest Development Tools and Technology achieving remarkable overall integration, stability, security, and performance.

The ECDP can, utilizing Oracle Technology optimally, scale easily and effortlessly to the needs of the customer’s performance and availability.

The ECDP constitutes an advanced backbone solution for all Customs applications.