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NC SiteSearch, an integrated statewide industrial property management system, was designed and developed by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Information Services Division, to support the collection and dissemination of information on North Carolina industial buildings and sites.

In 1998, as part of an e-commerce analysis conducted by North Carolina's Information Resources Management Commission (IRMC) , business requirements for an integrated industrial sites and buildings system were analyzed. Requirements identified during that initial investigation were used as the basis of the development effort.

Many challenges were addressed during the design and development of this system, including data entry over a wide geographic area, many types of diverse users, and complex interfaces to existing site and building data systems within the North Carolina Partnerships for Economic Development.

The system was designed and developed in accordance with North Carolina's statewide technical architecture guidelines. The resulting implementation uses Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 to implement a true n-tier application architecture. Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) objects were constructed, including separate logic modules to implement business rules and data access functions. Active Server Pages (ASPs) are used to present Web pages. These ASPs communicate with business objects which, in turn, communicate with business objects and data access objects as required. The data access objects communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server database, where industrial property data, including images and maps, are stored.

For more information on NC SiteSearch, contact Marketing Division , North Carolina Department of Commerce.

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