The Enterprise Information Web: Analytics, Efficiency and Security

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

12:45 PM - 01:30 PM

Level:	Case Study
Location:	Imperial B

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise Information Web (EIW) is a semantic, open standards-based initiative developed to federate disparate authoritative data sources across the DoD in near-real time to meet on-demand, enterprise-level analytic needs. The use of the EIW will transform business intelligence across the DoD by providing a secure means of aggregating unambiguously described data across the NIPRNET. This presentation will explore the EIW approach, describe the benefits of integrating EIW with the overarching semantic DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), outline the modified Agile development approach used to build, test and implement the EIW solution, and provide a live demonstration of the EIW analytic dashboard tool. Participants will understand how EIW is serving DoD to achieve the following results:

Improved investment management, capability assessment, and policy compliance through Business Intelligence (BI) and data analytics.
Cost and time savings from reusability of semantic models.
Greater operational efficiency through improved evaluation of performance metrics across the enterprise, both at home and in theater.
Fact-based, efficient decision-making as result of on-demand, near real-time access to information.

Mr. Dennis Wisnosky is the DoD Business Mission Area Chief Technical Officer and Chief Architect. He is responsible for the BMA Federation Strategy and Roadmap. In 2007 and 2008, the vision for the Department's Business Operating Environment (BOE) was articulated in the BMA Federation Strategy and Roadmap. This vision was for business operations to be service enabled through the use of SOA, standards, federated and understandable architectures and common vocabularies. The BOE vision would later influence our present day DCMO and DoD CIO policies and Services strategies. Through policy, governance and partnership with the CIO, DISA and the Military Departments, this vision is taking shape. Next we must bring it all together by joining the vision for the BOE with the future promise of the Federal and DoD Cloud enabled by the strengths of semantic technology to support data integration. DoD BMA Semantic Technology efforts include: Data Integration, Semantic Mediation, Data Virtualization, Common Vocabulary, Enterprise Standards, and Cloud Computing.

Jonathan Underly is currently the Program Manager of the Enterprise Information Web for the Deputy Chief Management Office of the U.S. Dept of Defense (DoD). He was hired by DoD as a Highly Qualified Expert (HQE) to help the Department in areas of mediation and domain integration by applying semantic web technologies and methods across the enterprise.