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Copyright 2012, Enterprise Elements, Inc.

Elements DataTraction

Information Management for the Enterprise

Company Overview

• Inception June, 2004• First release June, 2005• Version 7.1 release December, 2011• Customers – 30+

– 80% US Federal– 20% Private Sector/Municipal

• Locations in Reston, VA and Crystal City, VA


“Access for Oracle”

Data management system that allows users to create online data management systems with the ease of Microsoft Access and with the robustness of Oracle

Replaces the role of Access and Excel for desktop/Office-centric data management.


“Best of Both Worlds”

CIO’s dream product for data management:

• Departments, workgroups and even individuals can create “local” solutions with zero or minimum IT support

• IT personnel can deliver data management solutions to internal customers on demand

• All configuration and data resides centrally in Oracle

• User interface is Web-based and user-friendly

• Centralization and integrity of all structured corporate knowledge formerly managed on desktops in documents


Benefits

• Reduction in cost of creating local solutions

• Significant reduction in management burden of disparate local “systems” (which can number in the 10s or 100s of thousands for large enterprises)

• Significant reduction in time and cost of data collation across formerly disparate “systems” or files

• Significant risk reduction due to increased data integrity

• SOx and other compliance/audit benefits


In Action

DataTraction

Oracle

• Elements Extras:• Collaboration• History• Audit Trail• Task Management• Version Control• Process

Enforcement• Data Transformation

ePortal

• Forms• Charts• Reports• Queries• Scorecards• Visualization• Innovative Data

Entry Tools

• Solution Wizard• Portal Management• User Admin

Database Generation

User Interface Generation



Capability Overview

• 100% Web-based– HTML and Java Applet User Interface

– Role-based Views

– Web-Services Layer for Integration

• Configurable Information Model– Logical Information Model (Metamodel) allows easy configuration for

any solution

• Relational back-end, supporting scalability and direct query– Innovative implementation leverages the full power of Oracle

• Automatic Diagramming– Queries create diagrams for:

• Relationship visualization• Pattern analysis• “What-If” analysis


Capability Overview

• On-line Querying, Reporting & Metrics– Inter-navigation between reports and data entry and collaboration views

make data “actionable”– “Digital Desktop” look & feel to give users summaries of data, progress,

status, etc.

• Collaboration Support – Polling & Discussion Threads– Customizable enforced process at any level within application (see next

slide for detail)

• Advanced Access Control– Project-, Data type-, Object- and Attribute-level security– Enforced by Oracle – cannot be circumvented by direct database

access

• History– Any change to objects or relationships is stored and any past version

can be viewed for comparison or inspection– Full database transaction auditing is maintained so any change can be

traced back to its source

Multiple On-line Solutions

Entity

Attribute

Relation

Data Type

Activity

Application

Deployment Server

Net Component

Ref Model

Flow Element

Interface

Project

Role

UML ClassUML Attribute

UML Operation

SW Component

App-Data Usage

Location

OrganizationBudget

Task

EnterpriseSystems

Dept X Solution

Dept Y Solution

Common Data


Enterprise Benefits

• Accelerated Development– Order-of-magnitude increase in productivity for the creation of online, data-

oriented applications.• Centralized Storage, Administration and Management

– Information that would otherwise be in multiple databases or even on the LAN or locally-stored in Access or Excel files would all be centralized on Oracle/Elements instance

• “Big Brother” Benefits– Management has direct access to an extraordinary amount of business

information that would either have taken complex cross-database analysis or significant manual effort without Elements

• Facilitated/Automated Migration to Central Location– Built-in migration and import from other databases and data sources. If the

legacy database is Oracle, then the full legacy UI can be preserved automatically.

• Resource-sharing– Massive economies of scale

• Growth Management Capabilities– Related to “Big Brother,” but focused on analyzing patterns of data usage and

growth. Also, as data growth occurs, analysis can be performed to identify and resolve redundancies


DataTraction Applied

• Customers can utilize DataTraction in lieu of decentralized desktop data management tools, such as Access and Excel.

• Customers can utilize DataTraction as a platform for an IT or Projects organization to deliver small applications to users.

• Customers can re-host existing Oracle-based applications within Elements.

• Customers can acquire pre-built vertical/specialty applications built on DataTraction (EA, DoDAF, Metadata Management)


Integrated EA

Entity

Attribute

Relation

Data Type

Activity

Application

Deployment Server

Net Component

Ref Model

Flow Element

Interface

Project

Role

UML ClassUML Attribute

UML Operation

SW Component

App-Data Usage

Location

OrganizationBudget

Task

RelationalSource(s)

EA Modeling Toolse.g. SA, ProVision, Troux

Point-Solution Toolse.g. UML, ERwin

Elements-Managed


System Re-Hosting and Consolidation

• Existing Oracle databases can be “re-hosted” into Elements.

• Any existing user interface can be redirected at the Elements version of the database.

• The re-hosting automatically adds all core Elements features to the existing application.

• Once more than one legacy system is re-hosted in Elements, system consolidation is facilitated and can follow an “evolutionary” vs. “revolutionary” path.– Significantly reduced user impact– Automatic metadata analysis assists with consolidation


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