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  Essentials about AS
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  AS is an "Accounting System" for time and tasks, implemented
  from-scratch in a clean-room approach by the Development Team of the
  Internet Services division.
  
  Its intended use is to allow electronic accounting of all occuring
  employee job events inside Internet Services (IS) with the main goal
  of using the information for both planning and statistical management
  purposes. The primary statistical purpose is to generate the official
  Management Operation Framework (MOF) reports.
  
  For this, all employees submit accounting events to the central AS
  system, either in realtime (just after the event ended) or afterwards
  (at the end of the workday, etc). Each accounting event consists of
  the following information: date of event, employee identification,
  account identification, amount of clock time the event lasted,
  and optionally a remark text describing the event in more detail.
  Example events could be "2002-09-27 rse is.dev.meeting.weekly 1:30",
  "2002-09-27 ms is.dev.prj.openpkg.pmod 3:15 'updated packages j2se,
  j2ee and foo'", etc.

  System authorization is controlled by individual username/password
  pairs for each employee. Remote communications are encrypted by
  HTTPS. Access to the system functions is splitted into accounting
  and reporting access rights. Rights to submit events to particular
  accounts are controlled on a per-account/per-employee basis depending
  on the team (and its tasks) the employee belongs to. Rights to report
  information is controlled by the ownership of accounts and the primary
  and dotted reporting line of an employee.

  All data is stored in a single database on a centralized server to
  which access is possible through the AS system (the username/password
  above) and the underlying operating system of the server. The access
  rights for the first are described above. The access rights at the
  OS layer is as following: no employee user accounts are existing on
  the server except the super-user (root) and system accounts. All of
  them are only accessible by the Service Manager (Peter Kajinski) and
  Teamleaders (Ralf S. Engelschall, Christoph Schug and Christian Botta)
  of IS.

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