DOJ Case Study

CASE STUDY:

Challenge Strategy

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, In order to modernize ATF’s business systems and
Firearms and Explosives (ATF-E) required infrastructure, EDC formulated a three part plan:
an efficient, standardized and secure Design a strategic Enterprise Architecture roadmap to best
business systems infrastructure that leverage the strengths of Oracle’s industry-leading Fusion
could provide the case and inspection Middleware (FMW) technology.
analytics needed to increase the Develop an enterprise security model to withstand
efficiency of all ATF Field Agents and unauthorized intrusions, natural disasters and incidental
allow them to better complete their user error.
mission. Deliver the systems with an attractive and intuitive user
interface designed to display relevant analytics quick and
easily.

Execution

As the Architectural Roadmap was developed, EDC deployed technical teams to develop a best-in-class security
model, enterprise reporting and cloud computing infrastructure in the following manner:
• EDC designed an enterprise security model based on Oracle. Our technical team implemented the baseline which

was the first of three deliverables using an Agile development approach where application deployment for modules
was performed in multiple sprints after numerous design sessions were completed. EDC completed the second
deliverable while implementing Service Oriented Security (SOS) which enabled ATF to realize key capabilities such as
Single Sign-on (SSO), and PIV Card integration.
• EDC used Oracle SOA suite and Virtual Manager to create both Platform As A Service (PAAS) and Software As A
Service (SAAS) platforms. As part of the first phase, EDC designed and created three environment structures
(production, test and development) and created a gold template virtual machine (VM) that contained the serv
hardware and LINUX operating system which became the PAAS structure distributed to ATF project teams. During
the second phase, EDC designed and created Fusion Middleware templates, and SAAS, that was also distributed to
ATF project teams. Our technical team created high-availability templates for analytics, OBIEE and ODI, and identity
management, OVD, OID, OAM, and OHS.
• EDC developed a best-in-class Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Oracle’s Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition (OBIEE) data warehouse solution. This includes the full life cycle development of the enterprise
infrastructure necessary to support initiatives such as intelligence driven policing, mobile data dashboards and
analytics. This included enterprise master data management, and other ad-hoc end user capabilities. The process
included leveraging the new infrastructure environment while making use of key components such as OBIEE and
ODI to create a data warehouse and OBIEE analytics. EDC also imported and integrated ATF’s key functional areas
such as criminal investigations, industry inspections, case management, frontline assessments, geospatial solutions
and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

Results

EDC delivered to the ATF a state-of-the-art Oracle Fusion Middleware system and infrastructure that is modern,
efficient, standardized and secure. EDC also delivered the case and inspection analytics to allow Field and
Inspection Agents to operate more efficiently and to better and more effectively complete their mission.