•  To provide a single, integrated platform (SQL) for all internal and external systems and communications;

•  To ensure that the SQL data base is fully integrated with existing Microsoft operating systems and applications and compliant with a .Net development environment.

• Provide a paperless facility to ensure that all data may be entered, stored and processed electronically, regardless of the original medium and compliant with records management and security policies;

• To provide a single data entry facility, to ensure that data is entered into the enterprise data base only once-no matter where or how many times that that data may used;

•  To ensure that all applications are interoperable and that no user-initiated file transfers are necessary, enabling drill down and movement through the data base by each user, consistent with security policies;

• To (optionally) facilitate an end user driven philosophy, such that responsibilities for IT infrastructure, development, support and focus are clearly delineated: for example, end users (or a super user) accept functional responsibility when they successfully log on to an application;

• To minimise, and hopefully eliminate, personal spreadsheet and database systems.

The ultimate aim for an integrated electronic environment with all internal users and external trading partners and stakeholders is to harmonise data bases. GrapeCity Australia provides this facility to the international and domestic trade, transport and logistics community, which includes:

• Ports and port communities, shipping companies, transport and logistics operators and terminal operators-and their communities;

• Airports and their communities;

• Inland ports (dry ports), container yards and duty free zones;

• Permit Issuing agencies, Customs and other State and federal agency stakeholders.