Case Study: US ARMY - ALTESS

Business Problem:
In 1996, the US Army Acquisition Corps needed dedicated, onsite personnel for IT support and eventual software development.

Solution:
ALTESSACI has provided ALTESS (formerly US Army RDAISA) with several solutions:

  1. Acquisition Information Management (AIM): Converted a client-server information and reporting system to web-based, utilizing Cold Fusion, Oracle 8i, ASP, Crystal Reports, and Rich Text Format (RTF) generation on the fly. This application is now in Version 6, serving as an umbrella application for a suite of web-based tools and reports that facilitate decision-making up to the highest levels of our military.
  2. SmartCharts: One of the key elements of the AIM system (above), SmartCharts provides a graphical acquisition reporting system. ACI began by providing help files and software documentation when this product was client-server based (FoxPro and PowerPoint) in 1996. In 1998, ACI was awarded the development contract to make this application a data-driven web solution, utilizing Active Server Pages and an Oracle 7 database. It is now maintained in Oracle 9i, ColdFusion, and some ASP components.
  3. Civilian Acquisition Personnel and Position Management Information System (CAPPMIS): A client-server application that integrates eight other applications into a centralized SQL-Server database and serving over 60,000 Army Acquistion Corps professionals. ACI migrated this to the web with a ColdFusion rewrite, and developed additional personnel management tools and reports.
  4. P-Forms and R-Forms: Procurement and Research budget reporting replaced a less-formal system of emailing precisely-formatted word documents throughout the reporting chain. This solution utilizes ColdFusion, SQL-Server and custom Rich Text Format (RTF) generation on the fly to provide a flexible, high-availability application.

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