Insight's component-based, multi-tier architecture enables organizations to meet varied and changing requirements for managing and deploying collections over the Internet. Insight can as easily address configurations that distribute functions and resources over multiple, international sites, as it can address the requirements of organizations providing centralized access from within a local intranet.

Major changes in the distribution of resources can be accomplished by simple changes to system profiles, without interruption of user services. Insight anticipates scaling, segmenting content, mirroring, and system expansion for enterprise. Luna's Java-based applications and attention to platform independence ensures the maximum flexibility in an organization's choice of system hardware and software. Please contact sales@luna-img.com regarding any questions related to this material.

• Insight® System Requirements (download pdf)
• Diagram: Centralized Implementation of Insight®
• Diagram: Distributed Implementation of Insight®
• Insight® Front-end User Software
• Insight® Backend Server Components

System Requirements

Insight®v5.6 & Inscribe™v5.6 Client Requirements

1 Required when using Audio and Video in Insight®

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Insight® Studio v5.6 Requirements

Insight® Administrator Tools v5.6 Requirements

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BrowserInsight v5.6 Requirements

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Insight® v5.6 Server Requirements

1 Database license not included with Insight®

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Centralized Implementation

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Distributed Implementation

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Front-end User Software

• Insight® JVA Client
  This Insight client is written in Java and installs on a user's computer. It provides the rich user environment and full tool set for media collections. Users, working with high-resolution images, audio or video files can perform searches, organize and group content, create presentations, and view text data relating to those resources.
• Browser Insight® Client
  Accessed through a standard Web Browser (such as Explorer or Netscape), Browser Insight utilizes JavaScript and DHTML to provide Insight user interaction. The simplified subset of the JVA client features does not require any software downloads or plug-ins.
• Inscribe™
  Enables users to create, edit, and delete catalog information over the Internet. It can support a wide range of cataloging requirements from simple data input forms to data entry and editing for many interrelated entities (objects, people, groupings, vocabulary) with complex interrelationships. Inscribe™ also offers media handling tools both for cataloging from digital reproductions and for linking text information with media content.
• Insight Studio
  Insight Studio provides a collection administrator with the tools necessary to build and manage collections.  Insight Studio is a wizard based tool supporting batch processing of media, batch import of metadata, user management, cataloging template creation and management, and other basic functions.
• Administrator Tools 
  The Insight Administrator Tools allow a collection administrator to dynamically manage collections.  Components include tools for batch media processing, user and resource management, data indexing, and configuring of the search and user interface.

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Backend Server Components

• Insight® User Manager
  The User Manager manages the authentication within Insight. The User Manager allows collection administrators to add user login IDs, administer user access rights, create individual folders for saving image groups and presentations, and add remote Insight collections.
• Insight® Collection Manager
  The Insight Collection Manager is a 100% Java, scalable, high-performance application engine that manages and processes Insight client/server transactions. The middle tier Collection Manager manages communications between the databases, media servers and clients.
• Insight® Media Manager
  The Media Manager supports multiple resolutions and formats of individual images as well as audio and video files to serve different applications and user needs. The clients access media through the media web server directly to allow fully distributed content and high scalability. Advanced compression formats are available for high quality/file size storage and for additional performance.
• XML Gateway 
  The XML Gateway provides a web-services based interface for searching and retrieves content stored within Insight collections.  The XML Gateway is middleware which allows backend interaction between Insight and other XML aware applications.

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