Intelligence commands throughout government have been buying and integrating capabilities for years. Organizations seek similar platform elements, resulting in many similar solutions. Solutions usually leverage high performance low-cost/commodity hardware, reliable operating systems, linkages to distributed data sources, an ability to index those data sources, tools to correlate and extract data from those indexes, and of course a means to keep the user and the user’s mission at the center of all.

Project Delphi is the transformation of these similar solution stacks into agile platforms for rapid standup of capabilties. The Delphi concept enables enhanced interoperability, enhanced functionality, and significant cost savings based on years of lessons learned and industry best practices. Project Delphi delivers a scalable, modular system ready to perform for your mission.

A platform is something that can be built upon. A well designed platform provides dramatic improvements in capability while also providing a means to continually improve and upgrade for minimal disruption. The collaborative exchange of lessons learned around platform approaches is a critically important benefit, as is the ability to improve platforms through procurements vice lengthy acquisition processes.

Project Delphi: The Integration of Advanced Intelligence IT for the Mission

NuWave Widgets |  Endeca Discovery | MetaCarta | BrightCove | IceWeb

Project Delphi is a multi-component approach that takes best of breed capabilities and creates a synergistic powerhouse. It delivers rapid capability to the analyst at the lowest possible price point and the highest possible interoperability.

Project Delphi utilizes a Widget framework developed by NuWave Solutions, utilizing JackBe’s Presto to build customizable Endeca widgets based on user needs. Users determine what data they want to interact with and can change that depending on their mission needs through drag and droppable widgets. NuWave’s innovative approach to integrating these capabilities allows portal users to siphon and share data throughout the enterprise. NuWave’s Widget framework was developed to enable clients to realize the benefits of cloud computing.  This includes true abstraction of underlying infrastructure and services, paving the way for smaller, leaner applications that can be developed and deployed quickly, and deployed/ported in multiple environments, including portals, and webtops.

FASTER DEVELOPMENT/DEPLOYMENT – Mashlets & widgets can be built and deployed in a matter of weeks. Self-contained widgets can be tested independently. No need to re-test the entire environment. Once tested they are added directly to the Storefront for your users.

REDUCED RISK – Smaller, more focused apps limit exposure No more large, complicated web applications that take forever to build & don’t hit the mark. Small, targeted applications focus on specific functionality – quickly, inexpensively, and, more user-friendly.  This reduces risk all around.

PORTABILITY – Freedom to move between  environments With minimal effort (hours, not weeks or more) code can be adapted to run as a JSR 168/268 portlet, a web application deployed to Apache or Jboss, and JackBe.

BETTER PERFORMANCE – App be nimble, App be quick…. Smaller applications, distributed processing, device and platform independence, and a variety of Web 2.0 technologies enable a variety of options to ensure performance isn’t an issue for your users.

NuWave Solutions, LLC is a technology consulting company that provides visionary ideas and then executes on them fast. NuWave builds frameworks, frees data for consumption, and works visualization and user interfaces in ways that serve and support enterprise missions and their users.  They work with existing enterprise data and applications and deliver capabilities that just blow your mind.  For more on NuWave see:  http://www.nuwavesolutions.com.

The integration of Endeca’s search and discovery capability ensures that analysts get the answers that they need.Endeca can sort through massive amounts of a data in a quick, useful and scalable fashion (Endeca has been proven to scale larger than any other discovery tool available in enterprises today, and operates on some of the largest datasets in the community). Endeca helps users find what they need to know, incorporating a programmable lexicon. Endeca, in Project Delphi, comes connected to MetaCarta, the leading geospatial solution. With Endeca and MetaCarta, searching for location based data is easy and discovering data through locational interfaces is also a snap. In today’s operating environment, geotagging and location are a key part of analysis. Leveraging geospatial data is instrumental to good decision making and MetaCarta is the forerunner in this field.

It is the user that must be served by the solution and as the user creates new hypotheses based on rapid iteration with the systems the visualizations they interact with should reflect other options and allow for more instantaneous interactions. Endeca enables this in a means scalable over very large data stores.

As analysts interact with data it is increasingly important to capture their thoughts by tagging, and enterprise social software Jive enables just that. Video is also integrated and taggable and Brightcove’s video extensible video package enables just that, instantly providing analysts with more tools.

The Project Delphi solution is a complete platform and a ready to run solution. It runs on extremely fast state of the art IceWeb hardware. This hardware can be put directly into your data center, or in a hardened appliance case for deployments. Project Delphi is ready for Network Operating Centers or Tactical Operations Centers all over the world. Truly a deployable asset, the Project Delphi tool chest provides analysts with secure and collaborative tools that are force multipliers.

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Endeca – For guiding users to the relevant results.  Scalable to incredibly large datasets and blindingly fast speeds.  Used by the most forward leaning organizations globally.

NuWave Widget Framework – Developed to bring the power of enterprises to the end user. Works very well with Endeca.

MetaCarta – For use of Endeca and other tools in the context of geospatial information.

IceWeb – For high power/commodity-cost computer platforms ready for global deployment.

Inxight Thing Finder -For extraction of named entity from unstructured (and structured) content.

Brightcove - For dramatically enhanced video and dramatically enhanced analysis associated with video content. Tied to very fast Enedca search over very fast IceWeb I/O.