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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
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“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.
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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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