mdPortal
mdParser
mdBrowser
mdCentral
Interface Management Tools
Trust Concepts
ASMG successfully migrates best practices, techniques, tools and standards into business solutions for each client. ASMG endeavors to ensure that the implementation of all new techniques and technologies maximize the use of existing infrastructure investment and minimizes the impact of change on existing operational practices.
ASMG has established and maintains its leadership position by providing innovative solutions to each of our customers' specific requirements. To provide the optimum solution ASMG has developed a unique set of tools. The tools, founded on a common object-oriented information resource management layer, or Common Object Information Layer (COIL), developed by the ASMG, include:
Our unique approach to solutions for managing and accessing information about an enterprise's IM/IT environment. The mdPortal is a collection of tools that enables the collection, analysis and presentation of information about a corporations enterprise or pan-enterprise architecture. It enables users to access, control and reuse their vital information about the disposition, deployment and configuration of IM/IT Systems and components. In addition it provides management with a unique view into the IT domain with queries and reports to tailored their requirements – addressing issues such as requirements allocation and tracking, decision support, and information security in a management, not technical, environment.
The mdPortal's components were designed to support partnerships with our clients in the delivery of reliable, supportable, maintainable and cost-effective IM solutions. Continued evolution of the techniques and practices for the exchange of metadata is strongly influenced by evolving standards in the area of XML Metadata Interchange (OMG XMI standard).
An XML/XMI-based toolset to integrate data from multiple sources (e.g. requirements management, project management, IM architecture, IT development and delivery tools). The mdParser is designed to gather information from one or more products such as:
The focus here is for this integration to provide CIO's and CTO's with a consolidated view of their IM Environment and deliver innovative solutions in the areas of IM architecture, decision support and information security.
Is an interface providing visualization capability to reviewing, managing and reusing information integrated into the Meta-Object Facility (MOF) or a dedicated metadata repository used within the environment. The mdBrowser allows the user to:
Our approach to integration with repositories compliant with the OMG MOF standard. ASMG has built extensions around the core standards to integrate information about all aspects of IM architecture, better support tool integration and facilitate the capture and retention of corporate knowledge. Based on an architecture (MOF) repository, the mdCentral creates a single architecture containing all aspects of information management. The mdCentral enables the ASMG to provide its customers with a complete Enterprise Architectural Service based on the following concepts:
Interface Activity Diagrams (IADs) are used to define and manage interfaces. IADs represent ASMG's approach to managing the design and maintenance of B2B and other forms of application or database interfaces. Based on the OMG UML standard, the ASMG has architected this approach using semantic artifacts (integrated composite of transactional, logical and physical information/data) to design and document business transaction objects exchanged over database interfaces. The databases themselves can be independent data stores whether file based, relational, or object oriented, and include XML/XMI-based data formats. The approach therefore complements and/or supercedes the capabilities of traditional Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) toolsets, but far surpasses those capabilites.
The IAD approach adopts engineering best-practices by migrating the interface development to the design phase and putting the responsibility for these designs in the hands of the business analysts. The approach is also to integrates interface management into IM architecture and permits the reuse of information from other architecture views (e.g., conceptual, logical and physical information/data Models). An IAD may be a collection of information (a semantic artifact) which is in turn made up of other IADs (transactional artifacts), which make up a cohesive set of business rules which ensure both the context and the content of an information exchange between two parties is correct within the context of the sending or the receiving application. This set of IADs, together with any related business rules (poicies), make up a contract which governs the information exchange between the parties.
IADs facilitate the review, evaluation and auditing of business interfaces, as well as the automatic generation of the operational interfaces (e.g., XMI, XML DTDs, XML Schemas, Factory Objects, SQL, XSQL, and/or business Rules for common middleware or ETL solutions). Based on the OMG UML standard, the ASMG has architected this approach using semantic artifacts (integrated composite of transactional, logical and physical information/data) to design and document business transaction objects exchanged over database interfaces.
Trusted Information Exchange requires secure communications at the outset, and adds elements of security, privacy and confidentiality to the Common Object Information Layer (COIL) that ASMG solution sets provide. This allows the use of tagged information artifacts (aggregated data sets) with security attributes that code generators or security audit tools can use (within a Model Driven Architecture) to assure classified, private or confidential information is adequately protected in a production environment, and that business rules designed to prevent inadvertent or malicious exchanges over an information channel. are documented and form an integral part of the solutions. This capability introduces the functionality required to address caveat separation, need-to-know based information exchanges, and the exchange of only significant and relevent data in accordance with parameters defined by law or emergency response requirements.
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