Logistics Data Management, Error Handling, Corrective Action Framework

ABSTRACT:Software applications within any large-scale enterprise environment rarely, if ever, live in isolation. System users require access to enterprise functions regardless of the actual system in which that functionality may exist. Therefore, such distributed systems need to be connected into an integrated solution. The consistency of the data throughout this integration process is paramount as it leads directly to issues of data quality and trustworthiness across the enterprise. Within the Logistics Enterprise of the USAF there exists a need for a management system that provides a core, foundational approach to capturing, analyzing, and correcting exceptions and other errors. This system must be robust, service-oriented, and should be based on accepted enterprise standards. It should be extensible, able to handle errors from a wide variety of sources and able to encapsulate many types of errors with different properties. The Praeses team has implemented a prototype solution called Logistics Error Management Analysis and Reporting System (LEMARS) in Phase I of this SBIR designed to identify, resolve, report and manage system errors. The proposed Phase II effort will include development of LEMARS into a solution suitable for use by the USAF.BENEFIT:The primary benefit of LEMARS will be to provide a technology neutral, low-risk, robust, cost-effective solution for the management of errors and corrective actions in a complex, heterogeneous systems environment. Secondary benefits include ability to integrate disparate systems, manage business process workflows and perform event analytics.