How the CML Uses BackOffice Server

The Fitch & Mather (F & M) Corporate Media Library (CML) uses BackOffice Server to make an online catalog available to F & M employees. Employees can search for titles and request them for checkout. Should an employee be negligent in returning the title, the CML automatically generates an overdue notice.

The CML implements n-tier architecture in the following manner:

• A user-services tier presents information to the end user on the desktop using Internet Explorer.
• A business-services tier contains business objects that implement the searches and checkout requests from the users.
• A data-services tier stores the titles in the library in a SQL Server™ database, and accesses a Microsoft Exchange data store to verify information about the users who search the CML and make requests.