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As-One Commercial

Architecture, Development, Testing, Instruction
J2EE
Enterprise Architecture
Custom Applications Development
Load & Stress Testing
As-One is a web-based project management solution that helps organizations achieve SEI CMM Level 3 compliance by coordinating the documentation of their processes, project artifacts, and metrics. Since As-One's inception, AEGIS has been a key partner. Our role with As-One (now a property of CNSI, Inc.) has included training and mentoring of the development team on J2EE and product specific concepts, architectural and development support, post-sales technical support of their client base, and support of the hosting of their click-wrapped service offering. The As-One application has also been evaluated by the AEGIS Test Center with load and performance testing prior to production release. The testing helped ensure that their customers would receive comfortable performance from Day One. AEGIS' technical support of the As-One team allowed them to focus their energy on selling to their customers instead of being tied up with technical challenges.

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MCI Government Markets Commercial

Architecture, Development, Project Management, Technical Team Leadership, Testing
J2EE, Sybase EAServer, Oracle, Mercury LoadRunner
Enterprise Architecture
High End Analysis & Design
Custom Applications Development
Load & Stress Testing
MCI Governments Markets provides leading-edge Internet services, from web hosting to web centers to virtual private networks, plus a full range of advanced products and services to compliment an organization's strategy for voice, data, international communications, managed services, and more.

AEGIS served a variety of roles on several key applications for MCI Government Markets. Over the course of a five year span, AEGIS was instrumental in the deployment of three major applications: OETS (Order Entry Tracking System), NMCI (Navy Marine Corps Intranet), and FAAMS (Federal Aviation Administration Management System). Our technical team leads participated in setting the technical direction of Government Markets. The AEGIS Test Center was deeply involved in the deployment of Order Entry and Tracking System (OETS). Using load testing tools and methodologies, AEGIS was able to identify and eliminate potential risks before the system's production deployment. AEGIS has been responsible for successful development of MCI applications using, Java, Sybase EA Server, and Oracle.

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US Army (DTAS) Defense

Architecture, Development, Mentoring, Testing
ASP.NET, C#, Dynamic HTML, Microsoft SQL Server
Enterprise Architecture
High End Analysis & Design
Custom Applications Development
Load & Stress Testing
The Army's Deployed Theater Accountability System (DTAS) gives them complete visibility of all deployed personnel (including military, DOD, civilian, foreign nationals, etc) that are working for the Army within a given theater of operations.

DTAS consists of many parts, including the DTAS Mobile System (laptops), the DTAS Theater System (central theater server), and the Theater Manager.

AEGIS was brought in to the DTAS team to create the Theater Manager web application, using ASP.NET, C#, Dynamic HTML, and Microsoft SQL Server. While the DTAS Mobile System keeps track of positions and statuses of personnel at the unit level, the Theater Manager keeps track of the units at the theater level. The Theater Manager allows the Army and Marines to change their command hierarchy on the fly and assign and manage DTAS Mobile Systems securely and instantaneously via the web. Following implementation, AEGIS mentored the DTAS technical staff in their efforts to expand the system.

In addition to our architecture and development effort, AEGIS also provided load and stress testing services for DTAS. This presented a unique challenge because no COTS product existed for testing this type of implementation. The testing, therefore, involved design and development of an effective test harness and a hardware layer comprised of blade servers and specialized switches to accurately model DTAS Mobile Systems in the field.

Press:
DTAS helps track, account for personnel [Marines.mil]
Marine Corps joins Army in rolling out personnel tracking application [GCN.com]

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US Army (eMILPO) Defense

Architecture, Development, Mentoring, Testing
J2EE, Oracle, Rational Suite, Mercury LoadRunner
Enterprise Architecture
High End Analysis & Design
Custom Applications Development
Load & Stress Testing
The Electronic Military Personnel Office (eMILPO) is an Army PEO-EIS system developed by EDS for the Army Human Resources Systems (AHRS) program. The system handles personnel transactions such as mobilizations, arrivals/departures, maintenance of family/medical data, and promotion/ rank history data. The system was designed under a centralized model accessible world wide via the Army's NIPRNET. It is built on J2EE and deployed on BEA WebLogic.

AEGIS designed and developed several functional modules within eMILPO as a key component of the eMILPO development team. AEGIS played a critical role in supporting the production deployment of the eMILPO Data Store, a Cognos-based data warehouse implementation, assisting in the resolution of technical problems in the vendor's product. AEGIS also provided Load & Stress Testing services for eMILPO prior to deployment, identifying and resolving a number of potential threats to performance and stability.

Press:
The Army's personnel database paves the way for DOD-wide system by 2006 [GCN.com]

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ValueOptions Healthcare

Architecture, Development, Testing, Mentoring, Technical Team Leadership
J2EE, WebSphere, Mercury LoadRunner
Enterprise Architecture
High End Analysis & Design
Custom Applications Development
Load & Stress Testing
ValueOptions is a leading provider of managed behavioral healthcare services. Their IT business runs on an AS/400 system called MHS. AEGIS provides J2EE architectural guidance/ development expertise/technical leadership to the enterprise wide effort for web-enablement and modernization of ValueOptions' multiple services to different user bases.

Using IBM WebSphere 5.1 (running on IBM AIX) as the J2EE platform, multiple web enabled J2EE applications are being developed. The enterprise wide effort is based along the lines of Service Oriented Architecture. Core Services (that provide access to enterprise resources/ data) are identified and built once. These Core Services can then be used by any number of customer service (internal)/self service (external) applications, even future applications. Since Core Services provide an EJB interface and a Web Service interface, they can be used from any platform.

AEGIS helped realize the client's vision of building reusable services. Once the architecture was developed and agreed upon, AEGIS established a common framework for developing J2EE applications and the team is now developing the applications based on the common framework. AEGIS also performed load/stress testing to validate the architecture and help the client with capacity planning efforts.

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