Information Systems Management
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Enterprise Architecture Development
Configuration Management
System Integration
Knowledge Management, Decisions Support, and Business Intelligence
Enterprise Architecture Development
PPT leverages the most current technologies and best practices to design, develop, implement and maintain superior enterprise information system architectures. We apply concepts such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) to build architectures that leverage existing IT investments and staff to provide seamless information flow throughout the organization.
People: PPT understands that people are the key factor to the success of any organization and ultimately seal the fate of any new IT initiative. We make training and outreach a cornerstone to the development of the information systems that comprise the enterprise architecture. Through this training and outreach, existing staff are more accepting of new technological advancements as they are implemented.
Process: PPT staff makes an enormous effort to understand our customers’ processes as well as provide guidance to make them more efficient. It is critical that we fully understand how the organization operates so the enterprise architecture meets the organizations needs and is flexible to continue to meet their needs as they evolve.
Technology: PPT provides enterprise architectures that leverage existing IT investments to their fullest potential as well as provide additional advanced technologies to help our customers execute cross functional business processes seamlessly. Our solutions generate the capability for information to flow seamlessly across the organization so those who need it can get it quickly and use it effectively.
Task Experience: PPT designs, develops and implements enterprise information architectures for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Software Engineering Directorate (SED). The solutions we provide for these customers leverage enterprise portals such as Oracle Webcenter and Microsoft Sharepoint, Business Intelligence tools such as Cognos and BPM tools such as Oracle BPM. For AMRDEC SED we are using an SOA model to build a flexible interoperability layer between business systems that will increase the organizations efficiency and responsiveness to change.
Configuration Management
PPT leverages best practices and tools to maintain Configuration Management (CM) of all information systems we provide. We also use our staff experience in CM to help customers implement CM programs of their own or improve their existing CM program.
People: PPT staff is industry trained in CM’s best practices. This includes Configuration Management II (CMII) from the Configuration Management Institute (CMI) and Configuration Management Data Management (CMDM) certification. PPT uses its experience and knowledge in CM to help our customers perform more effective configuration control of systems.
Process: PPT uses CM processes for managing change that complies with most industry models such as CMMI, ITIL, and ISO. We use these processes internally as well as help customers define and manage their own CM processes to comply with industry and government standards.
Technology: Technology is very important in implementing a manageable CM process. PPT has experience implementing tools such as Serena Dimensions CM to automate and maintain CM processes and procedures. These tools are important for helping execute the CM process as well collect and measure metrics necessary for process monitoring and improvement.
Task Experience: PPT staff is industry trained and has experience defining and implementing a CM program for customers such as the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Software Engineering Directorate (SED). We help these organizations to define and implement effective CM processes and procedures and apply the necessary technology to help automate and manage them.
System Integration
PPT specializes in helping organizations take full advantage of current IT investments by providing a level of system integration that gets the right data to users at the right time regardless of where the information resides. We design, develop and implement information architectures that utilize the latest technologies and concepts such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) to provide loose integration between existing custom and commercial off the shelf systems.
People: PPT staff is well trained in modern concepts for providing information architectures that help organizations integrate existing and future IT investments. We pride ourselves on our ability to allow our customers to attain unparalleled efficiency from their staff by having the information they need when they need it.
Process: Through the use of SOA and BPM tools and concepts we effectively provide a level of integration across multiple technologies to automate and manage an organization’s business processes. Business processes cross many business functions and tools; PPT provides a flexible integration layer that allows our customers to manage and utilize organizational data.
Technology: PPT uses modern technologies that provide a layer of flexible integrations between other organizational systems requiring little or no costly modifications to existing in-house systems. PPT will use these technologies to use data from the existing sources of record and mash that data together to present relevant, useful information to users across the organization.
Task Experience: PPT has experience using the latest technologies and concepts to integrate existing functional systems across the enterprise providing common information architectures. Our customers such as the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Software Engineering Directorate (SED) have benefited from our abilities to build cost effective integrations and help organizations make effective use of all organizational data.
Knowledge Management, Decisions Support, and Business Intelligence
PPT, through the combination of people, processes, and technology, helps organizations define common taxonomies to help identify and describe organizational data. This common taxonomy can be used to help an organization effectively discover and use their structured and unstructured data to generate organizational knowledge. PPT specializes in applying the appropriate technologies to effectively manage the organizations' data to generate organizational knowledge and intelligence. The organizations' staff uses this knowledge to perform their job duties more efficiently and make more accurate and timely decisions.
People: PPT helps organizations to create and maintain knowledge to support day-to-day job functions and decisions making. We help our customers discover and identify data that resides in systems of record and provide a solution that will make relevant information available to individuals. This capability allows users to perform their job functions much more consistently and efficiently reducing the cost and time to perform business functions.
Process: PPT helps organizations understand and streamline their business processes to create, maintain and leverage information across business functions generating a business knowledge and intelligence capability.
Technology: PPT implements the appropriate technologies that fit within the organization’s budget and internal capabilities to automate and manage these processes. We currently provide solutions for customers using the latest technologies and practices such as Cognos for data mining and business intelligence, Portals such as Oracle Webcenter Suite and Sharepoint for collaboration and enterprise dashboards, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for integrating disparate information systems and Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) for process automation and management.
Task Experience: PPT has worked with customers such as the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Software Engineering Directorate (SED) to understand their business functions and processes. With this knowledge, PPT designs and implements an appropriate technical solution that will meet the organizations’ knowledge management and decisions making needs.