Integrated Resource Information System

Client: DNRE: Fire Management

The Incident Resource Information System (IRIS) is a fire fighting resource management software package. Stock Software was initially approached to help design and implement a prototype for IRIS, and after successful completion became part of the team charged with system and database design required for the production version.

Up until the official launch of IRIS Stock Software lead a team of 10 developers in the design, development, testing and milestone releases of IRIS as it approached its final version. Since then Stock Software has provided continued support for upgrading and maintenance of the package.

IRIS is a multi-client, multi-server system developed in Java2 version 1.3. The system relies on SQL Server as the primary database, but all clients are also able to synchronise to a local Microsoft Access database which is used when connection to the primary server is unavailable or inconvenient. It is also possible for any machine to act as a server for a workgroup independently of the primary server. All client side front end development was done in Java with server/client communication via RMI. Database connection was made with a JDBC/ODBC bridge.