The creation of the Navy Enterprise Portal is an effort to consolidate the disparate, back-office applications of the Navy. The ultimate goal of the Navy Enterprise Portal is to provide a central point-of-access to all information in the Navy. The ultimate goal of the Navy Enterprise Portal is to provide a central point-of-access to all information in the Navy. The physical location of the application business logic and data is transparent to the portal user, which may be accessed via a browser or mobile device. The Portal is designed to be the starting point of each day for all users. From the Portal, the users access their daily orders, handle human resource tasks, perform assignments, gather information, perform research, check messages and participate in recreation. The Navy Enterprise Portal environment communicates with backend applications using technologies such as XML Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Java, Style Sheets, ASP, and SQL Server. The Portal is designed to run any application as long as the application conforms to the standards of the Navy Enterprise Portal architecture.
For the ARN program, Modulant developed a data warehouse called the AAVS DataMart (ARN Asset Visibility System) to provide the foundation for managing DSCP’s (Defense Supply Center-Philadelphia) clothing and textile supply-chain utilizing a series of interrelated web applications called VIM (Virtual Item Manager). Modulant resolved the supply chain problems by integrating the data from multiple legacy systems and by developing web applications that filled voids in the supply chain data.
The AAVS DataMart is an integrated collection of data from a dozen legacy systems. Modulant’s data integration for the ARN program has demonstrated the power of having all participants in a supply chain work from a single source of data where nothing is reentered and all external interfaces are handled with fully automated data interfaces.
Effective supply chain management decisions for any commodity can only be made when complete, accurate, and timely information is available. DSCP found itself trying to make decisions using data that was spread across multiple legacy systems or data that simply was not available. Modulant resolved these problems by integrating the data from multiple legacy systems and by developing web applications that filled voids in the supply chain data.