The Accela Civic Platform server includes the following main components
■ AUTH (authentication component). User registration, identity management, authentication, authorization, token management, input claims, output claims, oAuth login dialogs
■ CIVIC (citizen engagement APIs). Citizen engagement services
■ AGENCY (agency productivity APIs). Agency productivity services
■ GEO (Geo APIs). Mapping, geocoding, routing, spatial searches of records, integration with different geo providers such as Esri, Bing, Google
■ DATA (civic data APIs). Collecting public data from agencies, data indexing, data APIs, civic data services
■ GATEWAY (Gateway). Reverse proxy requests from publicly accessible internet to internally hosted servers.
■ Admin Portal (see Accela Civic Platform Administrator’s Guide) and Developer Portal (The App Development Process)