For the technically minded, Rental Car Manager uses industry standard computing tools and software based on the Microsoft platform. A relational database, housed on a secure central application server, interfaces with a Microsoft IIS web server that is housed within the same computing facility. Server side scripts are executed via instructions made from the Rental Car Manager application.

Active Server pages (ASP) are used to interface with the RCM database via a series of simple menu interfaces that are all accessible from a single screen.

If you wish to provide online bookings for customers or partners, this is also archived by embedding a series of Active Server Pages into your website that in turn connect seamlessly to the Rental Car Manager database.

Database
Rental Car Manager is built on an industry standard Internet Database Management System (DBMS) that supports querying of the database from the Rental Car Manager application via a simple menu system. Database administration is provided as part of your support contract to ensure that optimum performance is achieved on an ongoing basis. The Rental Car Manager DBMS is enabled with numerous features and functions to make Internet computing via RCM easy, reliable and robust.

High availability is a key feature of the RCM Internet DBMS. As it requires 24x7, around-the-clock uptime, RCM features a range of sophisticated features to ensure maximum uptime, high-performance and system availability.

Web Server
Renal car Manager uses Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS), Web-server. This server provides high-performance with security and reliability to ensure maximum uptime for your operations. And as Rental car Manager also uses Microsoft technologies, the web server interfaces cleanly with the Windows operating system that powers both the web and database servers.Importanlty, this paltform also ensures high levels of backup and support from Microsoft and its’ connections to ASP, and the ease with which it connects with the DBMS, make it the perfect solution for fully web-enabled operations.

Server Side Scripts / Includes (SSC/SSI)
Server-side includes are simple, HTML-embedded directives that instruct the Web server to execute a program or include data in an HTML document. In basic terms, Server Side Scripts or Include files add text, graphic, or application information to an HTML document just before sending the web page to a user. In essence what this means is that when you click on an icon from within Rental Car Manager, a program iruns that executes scripts that in turn send instructions to the RCM database with the results in turn displayed on your screen. Simple isn’t it ?

Active Server Pages.
An Active Server Page (ASP) is an HTML page that includes one or more scripts (small embedded programs) that are processed on a Microsoft Web server before the page is sent to the user. An ASP is somewhat similar to a server-side include or a common gateway interface (CGI) application in that all involve programs that run on the server, usually tailoring a page for the user. Typically, the script in the Web page at the server uses input received as the result of the user's request for the page to access data from a database and then builds or customizes the page on the fly before sending it to the requestor.