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Software Solutions

Color Line Builds IT Environment With SIS

Star Information Systems (SIS) has signed a major retrofit and newbuild software contract with Color Line AS.

The Color Line contract covers the installation of new-generation shipboard software for improved fleet manage- ment on nine existing ships. Application and database server software are installed at Color Line's computer center in Oslo with on line direct access from the vessels through a terminal server and

VSAT satellite communication. The contract also includes what is reported to be the world's largest cruise ferry that is set to replace Prinsesse Ragnhild on the Oslo-Kiel service as of December 2004. Color Line holds an option for a second ship built to the same standard.

Color Line and SIS are currently working on the data structure and con- version process for the first Star IPS sys- tem retrofit onboard the "Petter Wessel."

Re-structuring data is a key operation in the implementation process for this ves-

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BASS Provides New

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BASS released its re-engineered

BASS CrewNet Version 2.3-

Crew/Human Resource Management

System. BASS CrewNet Version 2.3 provides users with an open system that can communicate with other business applications through an integration engine called BASS Integrator.

With this release of v2.3, the integra- tion engine, allows clients to develop their own useful modules, which can be "plugged" into BASS' application engine thus permitting the sharing, retrieval and updating of the data from other applications.

The extensive changes have been implemented using Visual Studio .Net technology. The server portion of

CrewNet will now be able to run on more than one operating system using either a Win32 or Unix environment.

With the company performing this change in phases, only five sub mod- ules such as crew license, crew activity, vessel general, vessel sail plan and crew profile have been revitalized to use this new engine with its architecture and programming language. In short, BASS is scaling down the dependency of

Microsoft Transaction Server as a host for database transaction and replacing it with a Web Server-like application called BASS Integrator. The new archi- tecture has facilitated a significant per- formance improvement in the said modules targeted for the release of ver- sion 2.3. Additionally, some new plan- ning scenarios using system-generated suggestions are available to optimize planning operations by focusing on 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News