DFusion technology is designed to support information interoperability between heterogeneous and/or remote applications (data-level integration between systems):

• Data mining from the source application;
• Transformation of mined data structure (data structure should comply with the requirements of the destination application);
• Controlled delivery of mined data on top of heterogeneous transport environments;
• Data downloading into the destination application;
• Journaling of transactions.

Main Features:

• Domain object instance is used as a unit of information exchange; it is a set of linked entities with roles (parent, child, classifier) identified and stored in the database of the application;
• Automatic control of cross-reference integrity of information across application systems at the level of object instances and classifiers;
• Integration with heterogeneous transport environments;
• Information exchange in automatic mode according to adaptable interoperability rules;
• Open component model which makes it possible to expand functionality by adding newly-created components.

Interoperability description and execution in DFusion:

• DFusion.Configurator is used for creating an interoperability script;
• Interoperability rules (init events) are defined for the script;
• Interoperability script is executed using a set of Microsoft COM components;
• Interoperability can be initialized both in automatic ("DFusion.Dispatcher", Windows event scheduler), and manual mode.

DFusion-based distributed system operation:  

• DFusion-based distributed systems are built as a collection of interoperable nodes;
• Each DFusion node can provide some or all its services to more than one applications;
• DFusion-based distributed system can be administered remotely from the central node (where interoperability rules and scripts are replicated, and DFusion software updates are distributed);
• A "thin" node with minimum hardware requirements is developed for data acquisition systems; its purpose is data entry based on centrally distributed templates.

Software platform:

• DFusion administrator workstation - Win32 (Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP) platform;
• DFusion event manager and transport layer adapter - WinNT (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP) platform;
• Microsoft COM, DCOM Component Object Model.