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Washington State Department of Labor and Industries – In our first engagement, we evaluated their current applications architecture, designed their long-term service-based architecture, and planned the migration to that architecture. In a follow-up engagement, we designed the enterprise message model that will be the lingua franca for all application messaging interfaces and specified the common services to be shared across the architecture.
“Semantic Arts were crucial to helping us define and stick to our Service Oriented Architecture plan and implementation. They have been pleasure to work with; and always had our interests and capability foremost in their minds. I wouldn't hesitate recommending them for any task, particularly those that are design intensive.”
Shelagh Taylor, Deputy Director [CIO] |
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Sallie Mae – We were retained by Sallie Mae to design and build an OWL-based Enterprise Ontology. They had successfully been implementing an SOA strategy, and recognized that their ability to continue evolving that platform rested with the ability to more economically define the payload of the SOA messages. They subsequently asked us to return and automate the creation of their application messages using the enterprise ontology. That project was completed in April 2010.
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Procter and Gamble – We are working with P&G to develop an ontology of R&D projects. |
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Washington State Employment Security Department – We were retained by ESD to conduct a feasibility study on integration of various applications currently being used to help job seekers find work. We were selected because they felt our approach would provide them a number of creative options not otherwise available.
The end result was a plan that avoided what would likely have been a $30+ million big bang implementation in favor of a series of manageable (1/4 - $2 million projects) that would get them to a long term SOA based architecture. Senior management were so bought into the plan, that when recent budget cuts cancelled the capital spending, they opted to continue out of their operating budget. |
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Colorado Dept. of Human Services/ Child Support Enforcement – We conducted a series of proejcts starting with an SOA Jumpstart project, in the course of which the Department was able to construct an “as-is” application architecture and a high level SOA target architecture as well as learn about a wide range of architecturally related topics.
“We gained a tremendous amount from the sessions. It made such a difference to be able to get information about the various subjects and then interact with each other and each of you. It is a great way to make something tangible. We can see that we have a lot of work ahead of us, but now we can see a path to get us where we would like to go. This was definitely the jumpstart we needed to get going with a long term plan for migrating to a platform where we can take advantage of new technologies for our user community.“
Curtis Rose, ACSES Technical Manager |
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care – This Boston-based medical insurance company is looking to take the next step in advancing their SOA architectural initiative. Upon completion of an evaluation of their information systems architecture, we presented our findings on how the company could best leverage their existing system investment through the used of semantically- and message-based integration strategies. |
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Washington State Department of Transportation – In our initial engagement, we did a rapid but detailed review of 200 applications, interfaces, current initiatives, long range plan and a new system being proposed. We found several areas where they could leverage work in progress to speed up their new project initiative, and several areas where, with a slight change in scope and priority, the new initiatives would actually reduce the amount of redundancy and inconsistency. We helped them build a high fidelity depiction of their current "as-is" state (what was previously in a 400 page report that no one read, has been rendered, and massively updated, to a very large graphic of the as-is condintion).
We then worked with them to define their long term SOA architecture with shared services. |
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We were retained by the CIA to help with high level strategic planning for their SOA environment. We'd love to tell you more about this engagement, but many of the key operatives are still at large.
Dave Roberts, CTO, Application Services, CIA |
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Mississippi Department of Transportation – We were retained by MDOT to assess their current architectural state and propose new ways for their future systems to converge on a more elegant target architecture. |
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World Minerals – We helped World Minerals with a number of projects including their long range systems planning, design of their architecture and evaluation of the feasibility of porting their custom ERP system to a modern platform.
The predecessor company to Semantic Arts (First Principles, Inc.) did a major project for World Minerals (the Celite Division of Johns Manville at the time). The project involved designing and building a very broad-scale custom ERP system (everything from QC and LIMS to production scheduling, lot-based inventory, multimodal distribution, etc.). One of the hallmarks of the system was that 97% of the 2 million lines of code were autogenerated, resulting in very high level of quality and consistency. The system was in use for 10 years when the platform became obsolete and was then ported to a newer platform.
"Dave McComb is brilliant, easy to work with and delivers what he promises.”
Bob Blewis, General Manager, Information Technology |
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Stone River (formerly a division of Fiserv) – This provider of technology solutions to the financial world has opted to build their future offerings using Ontological Model Driven Architecture. We trained them in Semantics and built their Enterprise Ontology based on gist. |
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Washington State Office of Financial Management – We were retained by the State of Washington as part of their Financial Roadmap Project. We documented their as-is architecture and provided them two alternative target architectures for implementing future statewide financial and shared services, one based on an integrated ERP package and one not. |
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Cerebra – We were retained by Cerebra, a leading supplier of Enterprise-level semantic inference software, to build and deliver a series of advanced semantic training courses. |
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ISPC – International Surface Preparation Corporation is a $400 million manufacturer of capital equipment that, as their name says, allows other manufacturers to prepare (in most cases, smooth) the surface of the materials they are working with. They provide equipment to a diverse range of industries including the automotive, aerospace, railroad, naval and construction industries. We assisted them with an as-is architecture and risk assessment in connection with their recent change of ownership. |
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Bougainville Copper – We built and implemented a custom ERP system for this $1 billion copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The project was completed in approximately 7,000 person-days and included inventory control, maintenance, purchasing, accounts payable and extensive multi-currency support. The middleware developed on this project was subsequently transferred to the largest ICL site in the world (UK Department of Social Services) where it supported development for 1,000 programmers for more than a decade. |
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Commerce One – We created the content for their on-line sales training materials as they grew their sales staff from 50 to 500. |