SOA for E-Government: Kapow Technologies Presentation
Proposal
Organization
Kapow Technologies Inc (http://www.kapowtech.com)
Technical Contact
Kash Badami, Distinguished Senior Systems Engineer (Kapow Federal)
Phone: 571-220-6208, Email: kash.badami@kapowtech.com
Andrew Lasko, Solution Engineer (Kapow Federal)
Phone: 571-239-1960, Email: andrew.lasko@kapowtech.com
Key Users
Government: US Navy, DHS funded state and local info sharing initiatives, TSA
Commercial: Intel, AT&T, Bank of America, Bell South, Dominion Power, Verizon
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Kapow Technologies (www.kapowtech.com) appreciates the opportunity to provide a
presentation proposal with regard to the SOA for E-Government Conference, October 30-31,
2006.
As a company, Kapow Technologies’ has worked with the Federal Government on
Information Sharing challenges through the use of our intelligent data and application
transformation software platform (RoboSuite). The RoboSuite Platform provides an
innovative approach to building Service Oriented Architectures as it facilitates the rapid
transformation of existing applications, data and content into web services using a
completely non intrusive approach that requires no changes to the existing applications. This
is achieved through a visual development environment that requires no programming and
automates web interactions to enable a new generation of highly adaptable and interoperable
web services.
SOA enabled web services are critical to addressing the challenges of information sharing.
For example, The US Navy uses Kapow’s software platform to rapidly expose potentially
hundreds of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources as web services that can then be
integrated and consumed by a larger Meta model. The importance and criticality of the
solution does not allow the time for a solution that requires programming. They are in need
of a solution that would enable them to rapidly transform and integrate information and
applications across heterogeneous technologies and organizational boundaries (federal, state
and local) by service enabling existing applications and data. In addition, these solutions
need to be integrated to the enterprise portal solutions available today which includes IBM,
BEA, Plumtree, Oracle, and many more. Information sharing solutions will need to be able
to take existing applications and expose them as web services in many of the new SOA
containers including BEA, IBM, Oracle, and Plumtree as well as Microsoft .Net web
services.
Below is a description of a demonstration which exemplifies how Kapow’s intelligent data
and application transformation solution can leverage existing web resources to create new
business value, reduce the cost of SOA implementations, significantly reduce the time to
market for major E-Gov SOA initiatives by a factor of at least 10X, and securely and
unobtrusively transform the E-Gov IT ecosystem to face today’s challenges.
SOA SOLUTIONS: THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION SHARING IS NOW
SOA is a service-centric IT infrastructure employing open standards to facilitate service-to-
service communications. Through the openness of services, SOA exposes functionality
across the enterprise enabling the development of dynamic process flows and information
sharing. Many enterprises implement web services with the belief that web services alone
are adequate to develop an SOA. In truth, the value of the SOA is in enabling intelligent
enterprises to dynamically alter process flows as conditions change. This dynamic enterprise
is the promising characteristic of SOA. While web services help enable this vision, web
services alone fall short of this vision.
We enable and drive SOA by developing web service APIs that would ordinarily take a great
deal of time and development costs which significantly increase risk. Our technology allows
for the rapid deployment of web services in a SOA without having to change the existing
environment. This allows for a quick return on your SOA investment while also giving you
the flexibility to keep up with the ever changing business processes and resources. If we are
to achieve the promise of SOA, we must find a way to implement it quickly, securely, and at
significantly less cost than traditional coding approaches.
The DHS is using Kapow Technologies to implement a composite profile application. The
application provides the capability to perform federated queries across multiple
heterogeneous back-end systems providing a complete view of individuals to include
criminal records, financial information, etc.. Results of federated queries conducted by the
DHS funded state and local info sharing initiative span heterogeneous open-source data
sources from both public and private websites as well as corporate intranets. Integrations to
these data sources is achieved by using the Kapow Platform to create a “loose coupling” to
these internal and external data sources turning each of them into an easy to use service
within a larger SOA. Using Kapow’s integration platform, the client was able to integrate
these data sources within days instead of months. The Kapow solution automatically
provides a web service enabled API to these applications which previously had no API.
Kapow Technologies will provide a live information sharing demonstration designed to bring
together several heterogeneous web enabled data sources in the public domain. The
demonstration entails mining selected national and state criminal registries and then cross
checking names and aliases against a public social network like MySpace.com to find
relationships within these networks. The objective of this demonstration is to highlight the
ability of Kapow’s’ platform to take completely disparate data sources and turn them into
structured repositories that can be easily integrated with today’s budding SOA initiatives.
Requirement: Internet connection and power for a laptop.