The CASI System

The CASI system is a suite of software and services that provide the IT infrastructure needed to professionally manage and run a modern assurance scheme. The design philosophy behind CASI is to understand and deliver the services required by assurance schemes to ensure the highest possible standards of certification and accreditation. An assurance scheme using CASI will  clearly demonstrate its commitment to accountability by taking advantage of these professional data monitoring and management services.

CASI currently provides the data management services for a large number of the UK's food assurance schemes including; Assured British Meat, Assured Combinable Crops, Assured Chickens and Assured Produce. We also provide services to other food assurance schemes including LEAF (Linking the Environment and Farming) and the ZNCP programme (the UK's salmonella monitoring scheme) run by BPEX. Outside of the food production industry we have developed services for clients such as CIAPS a construction industry certification scheme.

Central to this system is the CASI database. The CASI database is where all of the core scheme information is securely stored. Data is imported into the CASI database from third party data providers or entered directly via online data collection tools.

The database structure has been specifically developed to provide a robust data storage model which meets the requirements of assurance schemes. Third party data is imported through customised CASI data filters, which not only transforms the data to fit into the CASI model but also validates the information against a scheme's validation schema.

Once the data is safely stored within the CASI system it can be used to provide management reports, status information and a whole host of other CASI services.