Colorado Child Support Enforcement  We have done a series of projects with Colorado Child Support Enforcement to help them understand, at a high level, how their future systems might look when they are partitioned,  when they incorporate an SOA architecture and when they conform to a common semantic model.  We are currently working with COCSE...Continue reading→

Schneider-Electric Product Catalog  Schneider-Electric employs 160,000 employees in 140 countries. They make over 1 million industrial scale electric devices. We were retained to help them get more value out of their  product catalog. We built a high-level version of their enterprise ontology to make sure the   work on the catalog would fit in with other...Continue reading→

S&P Platts: Data Aggregation  The commodity world has its own way of carving the world into manageable regions. We are accustomed to thinking that counties are in states, states in countries and countries in continents. Even that has its exceptions. In the world of commodities (natural gas versus sugar beets, versus solar power), this is...Continue reading→

Management Consulting: Privacy  Every firm has a privacy problem. The advent of regulations such as GDPR and CCPA are bringing this to the forefront.  Our client has a great reputation for helping their clients with these issues on an advisory basis, but they believe there is a much bigger play in building the starting point...Continue reading→

Harvard Pilgrim: Canonical Modeling Harvard Pilgrim is a major healthcare insurance company in New England. We had done some training and high-level design with them. When they began designing their SOA  messages, they asked us to help them select tools to enable this. We prepared requirements unique to their situation, scouted for and found all...Continue reading→

Sentara Healthcare: Enterprise Ontology Sentara Healthcare is an integrated healthcare organization, including hospitals, clinics,  home health, assisted living and health insurance. They employ 23,000 people, primarily in  Southern Virginia. We worked with them to build what we believe to be the first integrated ontology for healthcare delivery.  After building the ontology we worked with them...Continue reading→

Washington Department of Labor: Web Services One of the shared services we designed in the Department of Labor & Industries’ long-term  plan was “Web Facing Services.” When it was time to implement this, they asked us to help them define the requirements and select a software product on which to base the service.  Our original...Continue reading→

Washington Department of Labor: Security The Department of Labor & Industries, like most organizations, has implemented security separately for each of its applications. The more applications you get, the more  redundancy is introduced, and the more likely it is that you are inconsistently applying the  law and your own internal policy.  We began this project...Continue reading→

Washington Department of Labor: Referral Tracking  We were retained by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries to determine if it  was feasible to design and build an “Enterprise Referral Tracking System.” One of the first challenges was to figure out what constituted a referral. After a few straw man definitions and a lot of...Continue reading→

S&P Platts: Identity Resolution  If you turn on the news and hear that Brent Crude is trading at $19 a barrel (did it really get to $19 dollars? Yes, it did, we’re living in strange times), it’s very likely that it was Platts that determined this price. Platts are in the “price assessment” business. If...Continue reading→