1. Insee survey data response websites The « entreprises.insee.fr » portal Insee at businesses’ service

2. A quality approach « The Public Statistical Services And Businesses » 5 commitments Proximity Reliability Confidentiality Response burden control Information feedback Returning information to responding businesses Businesses may choose to answer surveys via webforms

3. Online access to the information available on Insee and CNIS websites Latest news on the portal and on other statistical websites On line access to a vast range of first results of national and regional surveys

4. Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Selection of a survey Selection of a survey : Business opinion on the economic trends and expectations in the wholesale trade

5. Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Selection of the item in the classification, of the variable Selection of the item in the classification Then selection of the variable

6. Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Survey results Online definition of statistical concepts Additional links to international statistical sites on similar topics (Eurostat, Center for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys...) Presentation of each survey : -CNIS description note -FAQ -the paper form (pdf format) Access to the results of the survey : -available online -References to publications -links to databases

7. Access to Webforms (surveys on economic trends, survey on production prices in industry and services)

8. The main application features One application for several surveys Data collection and personnalized survey results feedback within the same application Webforms to be completed online A secured channel (SSL) to ensure encryption of server-client exchanges Interaction between the application and the back-office in store and forward mode

9. Architecture J2EE model i.e. use of Java technologies for the web applications (thin client) Graphic design: Insee websites standard graphic design Use of a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework to separate presentation and core business model functionnality (CGEY’s SAMC ) End user Target-browsers: IE 5 and above Netscape 4.75 and above

10. Security SSL with server certificates -High level encryption = 128 bits -« Certplus » certificates All application servers in the DMZ zone (no connection with Insee internal network) User authentication trough login and password

11. Data LDAP directory: data linked to the survey respondent (username, password, name, mail address, e-mail address, telephone number…) Oracle database for other data (some are stored as XML)

12. Software OS Windows NT4 Apache (open source) Web server (with server certificates) Tomcat (open source) application server iPlanet LDAP Directory server Oracle DBMS

13. Languages HTML JAVA (on the server) On the client’s side: JAVASCRIPT for data type consistency checks JSP (Java Server Page) XML (webforms and exchanges with the back- office) XSL (translations into HTML made on the server)

14. Development environment and tools Jbuilder Rational Rose for UML modelling Dreamweaver

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