AESIP Case Study

CASE STUDY: AESIP

Background

As the prime contractor for the Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program
(AESIP), EDC was responsible for systems integration for the Army’s Business
Objects Metadata Management (BOMM) program. EDC provided the Army
with a data governance capability by implementing the SAP® BusinessObjects™
Information Steward and Data Services solutions on an enterprise integration
platform based on SAP NetWeaver components. The combination of the two
solutions allows the Army to fully capitalize on the data that it owns and to invest
in enterprise information management to ensure the availability of the highest
quality data at all times and to implement the necessary data policies that will
ensure data quality within the organization.

Challenge

To develop a capability that delivers an enterprise view of data instead of a stove-
piped application-centric approach by reducing the number of tools and manual steps
required to integrate the various types of metadata that the Army relies upon. This
capability was required for increased operational efficiencies of online transaction
processing as well as analytics by capturing and analyzing metadata from various
AESIP source systems such as SAP ECC, SAP Master Data Management (MDM), Oracle
databases, and SAP Business Warehouse (BW). Specific capabilities included the
ability to perform analysis on data creation audit, data usage, change impact, and data
lineage and quality analysis via reports, printed or viewable in a web application.

Strategy Execution

To instill a new way of thinking and EDC developed a centralized
to help our client develop a new solution that provided capabilities
understanding of what their existing across many disparate technologies
data represented and how it could be that required strict adherence to a
leveraged. Buy-in from data owners systematic software development
was critical from the beginning to lifecycle methodology to integrate,
ensure a high level of collaboration configure and deploy the solution
during each step of the implementation given a very aggressive timeline.
process. Our teams kept users aware Our team leveraged industry
of each milestone and conducted best practices and aligned them
progressive workshops to demonstrate with established DoD processes
the capabilities of the evolving solution. and procedures to streamline an
This led to a seamless cutover and implementation that was delivered
deployment process and the final on schedule and under budget.
adoption of the solution by the user
community.

Results

With the implementation of the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Information Steward and Data Services,
the Army is now positioned to reap the resulting benefits of analyzing, consolidating, monitoring
and reporting on the quality of their data, to adopt a single solution for data stewardship, to create
a collaborative environment for their various programs such as LOGSA, GFEBS, GCSS-Army, AESIP
and LMP and the ability to turn quality data into a strategic advantage and making the day to day
operations of the warfighter more efficient. This enhanced capability is now referred to as the Army’s
“secret decoder ring” for understanding and managing data from their numerous organizations.