Monday 5 January 2009
The Big Oxford Computer Co. Ltd.
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) launched a worldwide 'Ports of Convenience' (POC) campaign at the ITF's 41st Congress in Durban in August 2006, to ensure that decent standards apply across the world's ports.
The ITF provided funds to affiliate 'Maritime Union of Australia' to develop a database for the POC that is hosted in Australia.
The ITF wanted to provide access to the database for users already utilising the existing 'My ITF' secure extranet facility on the main ITF website.
BOCC developed a mechanism to seamlessly pass the existing extranet login credentials to the POC database in order for users to gain access.
BOCC created an export of the user list from the My ITF extranet system that is imported into the POC users database as a regular scheduled process. BOCC liaised with the POC developers to agree the method of passing the login credentials from the extranet to the POC database.
The database information is integrated with the existing multilingual website, which is facilitated by a customised version of BOCC's content management system (CMS), tailored to the ITF's requirements.
The system utilises: