Federal Government
Government agencies are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, share information more readily and execute on ever expanding congressional mandates. To meet these demands, a number of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives including Netcentricity, Civilian Centered Services, e-Government and more are now underway.
Data integration is a critical success factor in a federal agency’s ability to serve its customers – citizens, industry, and other agencies or departments. The federal government (civilian sectors, intelligence, and defense) is overwhelmed with data gathered through a myriad of mission-critical systems and activities, designed to promote and/or protect the interests of the American public. In today’s netcentric, on-demand world, there is an expectation—and often a compelling need—to access this diverse information as quickly as possible.
However, the data needed to provide this useful information and support these new SOA-based initiatives is locked up in disparate stovepipe systems across various agencies. Often it seems Herculean efforts are required to uncover and unlock this critical data.
Composite Data Services Enable SOA for the US Federal Government
Composite Software enables the US Federal Government to meet these challenges via a best-of-breed SOA data services solution that provides agencies with easy access to data wherever it lives in support of a range of SOA-based initiatives. Leveraging the Composite Information
Server to develop and execute these services, Composite supports the following unique requirements:
- Federate diverse data - Discover, access, and federate heterogeneous data from diverse sources including JDBC, ODBC sources, legacy mainframe systems, custom and COTS applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, SAP, and PeopleSoft located throughout the government.
- Virtualization, not replication - Bind many different data sources at the project level or as a unified, virtualized agency or program-wide data model, including schema and content. FEA-compliant.
- Deliver data how you need it - Data is delivered to consuming solutions securely using preferred logical abstracted forms and standards rather than complex physical forms and formats
- Gain Agility - Achieve flexibility and agility by loosely coupling both services and applications from the underlying physical sources. Remove these dependencies simplify change and educe development and maintenance costs.
- Overcom complexity - Composite automates heavy lifting data integration development efforts. SMEs, data architects, analysts, and more can quickly and easily model shareable, reusable data services and relational views. SOA standards, interfaces, and protocol compatibility are assured.
Composite Supports the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Model
According to the FEA Program Management Office:
“Federated Data Management is an architecture for managing and accessing information data and metadata across physical boundaries, which may be system to system, department to department, or enterprise to enterprise boundaries.”
Composite data services are key enablers for the following FEA components:
- Service Component Reference Model
- Technical Reference Model
- Data Reference Model
Selected Examples
Federal agencies leverage Composite to virtualize, abstract, and federate the key data required across a range of initiatives and programs.
- Dashboards - Offers the government an easy-to-use, easy-to-navigate capability to translate data from disparate systems into actionable information. For example, an agency can easily have an instant, comprehensive view of the security and integrity of their IT systems throughout the country; astronauts in outer space can identify and analyze system anomalies, pulling information from multiple data sources, to immediately recommend appropriate solutions to the problem; or American forces on the ground in the Middle East can use data to determine where and when to strike and anticipate the tactics of the enemy.
- Single View of Criminal/Terrorist - Government can receive real-time or near real-time access to data across multiple underlying systems. For example, this capability would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to pull seemingly innocuous information from multiple partners throughout the intelligence community, Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, to identify a potential terrorist.
- Operational Business Intelligence - Allows on-demand capture and analysis of operational data, helping government agencies to meet immediate challenges. For example, agencies are paying out billions of dollars in over payment of many workers compensation cases. Our solution enables on-demand access and integration of claims and payment systems. Agencies will have greater visibility into fraudulent cases and avoid expired cases.
- Master Data Management - Helps government manage master data shared by several disparate IT systems and groups, presenting information in a uniform fashion. For example, despite being located in different types of reports in multiple formats, government agencies can pull data concerning the experimentation and distribution of hazardous substances from the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Agriculture, federally funded university projects, and military installations to assess criminal activity or terrorist threats.
- Intelligence Analyst Workbench - Intelligence agencies can aggregate information on suspected terrorist cell activities (e.g., flight school training, biohazard research activities, and militia group activity) from individual agencies in order to consolidate information into a repository of actionable intelligence.
- Data Center One-Stop - In support of the E-Gov initiative for developing an IT Infrastructure Line of Business, Composite Software can develop a single face for the interoperability of data center functions across all sectors, partners, and government levels.
- Single View of Disaster Victim - Government can receive a real-time view of the inter-governmental services offered to a disaster victim following a natural or other disaster. For example, the government could have a full view of the type of services offered to the survivor of a hurricane (e.g., housing allowance, transportation vouchers, monetary voucher, and child care assistance). The result would enable FEMA to better assist victims and safeguard against fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
Federal Contact
Erin Hawley, Director US Federal Practice
Composite Software, Inc.
Federal Office:
11921 Freedom Drive, Suite 550
Reston, VA 20190
T/ +1.703.925.5940
F/ +1.703.935.0512
