The easiest and most cost-effective way of using Tricia is a hosted solution:

• No IT staff required: System administration, content backup, software installation and upgrades, security certificates, VPN connections and license management are all handled by InfoAsset.
• No upfront license payment required.

If you prefer s to download and run Tricia on your own IT infrastructure, the following information is important for your IT experts. We are confident that they will apprciate Trica also from a technical perspective, since it has beend designed from ground up to meet todays enterprise IT requirements.

Tricia deployment architecture

• A grey box indicates a subsystem.
• A green arrow indicate an interaction between a user and a system,
• A blue arrows indicates a communication between two systems. The label indicates the protocol used.
• A yellow lines indicate a data flow between a system and a data store.The label indicates the data format.
• The different components can run on a single computeror be distributed on different computers.

Little administrative overhead

• No client-side installation, no browser plug-ins required
• Runs on any modern browser (details see below)
• Simple server/service setup and maintenance procedures (server configuration, data backup, firewall configuration)
• Decentralized user management governed by central access policies
• Automatic data migration on release upgrades

Robust

• Self-test capabilities and configuration assistant
• Robust recovery from subsystem failures
• Integrated problem reporting capabilities

Scalable and lightweight

• Thousands of users and gigabytes of content supported with modest hardware requirements.

Platform independent

Tricia fits most application landscapes

• Server: 100% Java, runs on
  
  • Windows 2000/XP and newer, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX
  • MySQL 4 or better, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server database (MySQL is part of the distribution)
  • No application server required
  • No fulltext extension required (Lucene included)
• Browser: Support for Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 2, Safari 3.1, Chrome 4  and  newer. Javascript  has to be enabled (Ajax support).
• Protocols: HTTP, JDBC, POP3 & SMTP. Optional: HTTPS (server certificate required), (S)FTP, SMB (desktop file sharing)
• Document Filter for fulltext document search: PDF, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and others depending on platform.

Secure

• Mandatory and explicit access policies
• Encrypted password transmission and storage
• Optional HTTPS transport level security
• Security (uniform authentication, flexible role-based authorization, store-level acess control, logging)
• Optional LDAP and Open-ID authentication

Extensible and open

Tricia is an out-of-the-box software product without dependency on third-party applications.

If necessary,

• Tricia services can be consumed by other applications, and
• Third-party services can be accessed by Tricia.

For this purpose, Tricia provides open and stable interfaces:

• Presentation layer: Widgets, Themes, HTML template engines and Tricia Script
• Network protocols: RSS, (S)FTP, SMB, RESTful Web API
• Application layer: Java application programming interfaces
• Storage layer: Access via queries, tables, reports, triggers, ...

See the Tricia Developer Documenation for details on how to integrate and extend Tricia.