Chenega Technology Services Corporation (CTSC), a federal systems integrator headquartered in Virginia in the US, is using InterSystems` Ensemble integration platform in a project designed to demonstrate key concepts of the US Defence Department`s recently announced Net-Centric architecture.
CTSC is a certified Alaska Native Corporation that provides support services and information systems development, military operations research and technical analysis. It offers profit, training, and employment opportunities for Alaskan native shareholders. The Net-Centric testing initiative is now under way at the CTSC facility in Anchorage, Alaska.
The fastest growing provider of database software, InterSystems recently added Ensemble to a product line that includes the high-performance post-relational CACH'E database.
Common information capabilities worldwide
The Net-Centric architecture will provide a common set of information services over a global information system, according to CTSC director, Joint Information Technology Centre, Jay Ferguson. "CTSC is involved in one of the early pilots exploring Net-Centric technologies," he says. "We`re targeting the supply and transportation aspects of logistics with our focus on proving that Net-Centric concepts and technologies will work across a global enterprise."
"The project will test virtually all aspects of enterprise integration, including application interconnection, business process orchestration, composite application development and business activity monitoring. Ensemble`s comprehensive architecture, which enables it to address all four of these integration domains, plays a fundamental role in meeting the challenging requirements of this project," says Trevor Matz, InterSystems MD of application integration.
The initial phase of the CTSC integration project is to provide a common view of the Defence Department`s supply chain processes as it relates to 15 to 20 systems, Ferguson explains.
Ensemble is being used to integrate multiple applications running on a variety of platforms, including Unix, Windows and Linux, as well as multiple data repositories.
"We are going to take an order from the time a request is made and track it through multiple supply chain events," says Ferguson. "The objective is to ensure that the user knows everything possible about the order. The project involves monitoring where Defence Department resources are located, as well as monitoring messages back and forth between systems," he says.
The end result of the Net-Centric implementation will be to shorten decision cycles by providing realtime connectivity to get information to the right people in the right time and appropriate format. "Based on early results, we think we`ll be successful in proving the Net-Centric case," says Ferguson. "InterSystems has a very long and successful track record with multiple US government agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service, as well as the Defence Department," says Henry Adams, country manager for InterSystems South Africa. "The company is doing everything possible to support the CTSC pilot and ensure the success of the Net-Centric initiative."
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