Semantic Systems Integration

Semantic
Systems
Integration
A New Approach for
Enterprise IT Solutions
Presented by
Stephen Lahanas
March 1, 2010
Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved – Semantech Inc.

Introduction - Purpose
• This presentation is meant to provide an overview for a

new IT solutions model – Semantic Systems
Integration (SSI).
• Section 1 - We will first highlight why traditional

Systems Integration approaches are not working.
• Section 2 - We will then introduce the concept of

Semantic Systems Integration both as a solution
methodology and set of technical services or
capabilities.
• Section 3 - Finally, we will illustrate how it can be

applied to any IT Domain.
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About Semantech Inc.
• Semantech Inc. is a small, woman-owned
business founded in 2007. The company is
located near Dayton, Ohio. Since our inception we
have supported clients in a variety of industries
nationwide.
• Our charter is to provide enterprise-level solutions
and to develop innovative approaches to better
solve IT’s most troubling problems.
• Our underlying premise is founded upon the
realization that traditional IT is largely an exercise
in Chaotic Semantics. The unification of process,
logic and data is Semantic Integration.
Primary Business Application
• Semantech Inc. was created with the Federal IT
market in mind. Our initial focus has been Defense and
Homeland Security.
• While we believe that the premise for Semantic

Systems Integration is applicable in any industry, our
unique experience in the Federal market space
positions us well for that market.
• Of the top 50 US Defense Contractors, more than 40

are self-described “Systems Integrators.”
• Nearly 26% of Federal Government contracts are set

aside for Small Businesses.
Thought Leadership
• Semantech Inc. has already developed a number
of cutting-edge IT practices and services including
Semantic Systems Integration, Architecture
Fusion, Comprehensive Cyber Security and
Intelligent Healthcare.
• This thought Leadership is grounded firmly in
problem-resolution; in other words each innovation
is created specifically to address a long-standing IT
challenge.
• Our ability to think on our feet is also applied at the
engagement level – this gives us a unique level of
flexibility which in turn reduces project risk.
An Innovation Framework
At Semantech Inc., Innovation is not a mandate, it’s our passion…

Section 1:
The Problem
with Tradition System Integration
Why IT Projects Fail
• IT projects have a notoriously high failure rate. If we

examine projects which involve significant levels of
Systems Integration, those failure rates increase.
• This is not opinion – it has been documented in 100’s

of studies. System Integration tends to be the most
costly portion of any IT budget or any particular IT
project.
• Worst of all, this track record is only likely to get worse

as enterprise complexity rises and the quantity of data
continues to rise exponentially. Traditional Systems
Integration is simply not designed to solve today’s
challenges. It must evolve…
Expectations vs. Performance
Expectations are growing further out of alignment

with enterprise IT support as personal technologies
accelerate while larger scale solutions bog down.

Problem 1 - Complexity
• Systems Integration is a discipline that was
developed with more specific parameters in mind – in
the past “systems” represented directed rather than
holistic capabilities.
• Since the 1990’s, what we’ve needed to manage
instead are “Systems of Systems” or IT ecosystems.
Integration within this new context is exponentially
more complex using only traditional techniques.
• Traditional techniques for system integration cannot
be effectively automated, they are not scalable or
flexible – they weren’t developed for the current
problem set.
The PMO Manages Complexity
The Enterprise Program Management Office (PMO) is

generally charged with managing complexity. Today’s
system integration requires management integration as
well…

Problem 2 - Methodology
• There is no consistent methodology across industry for
systems integration. CMMI or the Carnegie Mellon
Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity
Model for Integration, was developed for software
development and then adapted to integration. It was
not built as a systems integration discipline and not
built with enterprise integration in mind.
• More often than not systems integration is viewed as a
corollary activity to other goals, such as software
development or software deployment. Building or deploying
software into stovepipes is in fact where most of the costs in
IT eventually result from.
• Current practice fails to recognize and harness the
synergies between architectures.
Stakeholder Methodology
Most current systems integration approaches fail

to properly recognize or harness stakeholder
knowledge or participation. This adds
tremendous risk to projects…

Problem 3 – Technical Focus
• The single biggest technical flaw with current systems

integration techniques is the notion that data has to be
standardized before integration can occur.
• This assumption leads to tremendous expense, few

successes and a general inability to prepare for the
mass quantities of data now becoming available – both
from within any given enterprise and from without.
• Data exchange and interoperability represent the heart

of systems integration. Application integration builds
atop that foundation – however this is difficult to
achieve if each integration activity is managed as its
own project rather than as part of the system itself.
Section 2:
The Promise
of Semantic Systems Integration
Semantic System Integration
• Semantic Systems Integration is a Methodology, a

Philosophy for 21st Century Federated Systems
Integration and an IT solutions practice.
• Semantech Inc. is a Systems Integrator (SI). Our

company is not solely dedicated to deploying software.
We support the entire IT enterprise. We engineer
solutions for the enterprise.
• Semantech Inc. also provides integration oversight or

IV &V [Independent Verification & Validation].
• Our methodology is based upon a rapid capability

deployment paradigm.
Semantic Systems Integration
Semantic Systems Integration is an evolutionary
approach to systems integration and encompasses the
following elements:
• Semantic Foundation
• Data Alignment
• Process Alignment
• Application Alignment
• Capability Assurance
Semantic Systems Integration is expressed both through
linear (Logical) and recursive (Agile) Lifecycles. It is
understood the Lifecycles are continuous, thus Lifecycle
management stays in place, supporting evolutionary
improvements without incurring transformational costs.
Linear Lifecycle View

Agile Lifecycle View

SSI Reference Model

An SSI Methodology
• IT project teams don’t always fully exploit the
resources available. Diversified teams can however,
cover multiple related objectives at the same time.
• The Semantech Inc. methodology takes advantage of
Federated Project Teams so that IT projects can be
deployed as integrated increments.
• Incremental Integration allows for continuous
assessments of project health. The SSI methodology
employs governance and maturity, but makes it Agile.
• Process, Data and System Reconciliation requires
special attention and dedicated technology to conduct
– our approach optimizes this…
Governance Methodology
Governance is a Lifecycle of Lifecycles –

data and process make it truly traceable.
The question is whether this process
needs to be burdensome or can be
made Agile…
Solution Maturity Assessments
A Maturity Matrix represents an excellent

guidepost – but it cannot be written in
stone. It too will evolve, so it shouldn’t
take years to get certified on what you
were doing years ago…

The Semantic Connection
• Semantic Technology and Semantic Web Standards
were developed with one very special recognition in
mind – All systems and systems are related – through
linguistics.
• Data representations, programming languages,

internet protocols are all symbolic notations – some
more akin to mathematics and others to natural
language.
• Why invent new ways to translate between dialects on

every unique project, in every IT department when we
could instead direct every translation everywhere using
the same set of agreed upon rules?
The Semantic Advantage
• While Semantic Systems Integration exploits Semantic
Technology to achieve its aims, it’s not dependent on
any given software package.
• This approach to systems integration is a rules-based

methodology, one that builds upon collaboration both
locally and globally, thus allowing for exploitation of
data and capability in the “Cloud.”
• Most importantly, we now have a foundation that for

first the first time ever, allows us to manage System of
Systems environments. This scales perfectly to Cross
Domain situations. Semantic Systems Integration is
designed from the ground up for Today’s Challenges.
Section 3:
The Model
for Business Exploitation of SSI
Semantic Integration & Enterprise IT
Semantic Systems Integration lends itself perfectly to

coordination and reconciliation of global initiatives and
large-scale system of systems environments.

Flexible Business Model
Semantic Systems Integration can also be used for

program coordination and can be applied to any
functional domain, such as Healthcare Technology…

High Profile Solutions
Semantic Systems Integration is well-suited for high

profile opportunities such as Cyber Security &
Biosurveillance.

Semantech SSI Practices
• The Semantic Systems Integration is both a solutions
framework and a business model for managing
systems integration for the 21st century.
• Semantech Inc. is one of only about two dozen

companies worldwide that have embraced some form
of Semantic System Integration – we are the only
company that has applied the core SSI model to a
dozen targeted IT solution practices supporting a wide
spectrum of functional domains.
• The following slides highlight some of the Semantic

Systems Integration practices that we’ve already
deployed through Semantech Inc. & with partners…
Program Lifecycle Management

Program Lifecycle Management
• It is a “Lifecycle of Lifecycles,” in other words a
Lifecycle specifically designed to encompass and
support the full range of elements that constitute an
enterprise IT environment.
• It is not meant to replace the other PLMs, but rather
to unify them within the context of the ePMO and the
enterprise itself:
• Portfolio Lifecycle Management
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Process Lifecycle Management
• PLM provides a unified data framework upon which
all ePMO processes can be automated & integrated.
SSI & Cyber Security

SSI & Cyber Security
• The Comprehensive Cyber Security Practice (CCS)
offers solutions and capabilities in seven primary
categories, each representing a crucial stage in our
solution approach:
1. CCS-Foundation [Strategy & Semantics]
2. CCS-Architect [Design]
3. CCS-Assure [Operations]
4. CCS-Aware [Analytics]
5. CCS-Validate [Compliance]
6. CCS-Collaborate
7. CCS-Intelligence
• The true power of our offerings is their ability to support
integration and Cyber Security management within a
single, holistic Lifecycle.
Intelligent Healthcare

Intelligent Healthcare
• The Intelligent Healthcare Practice offers solutions and
capabilities in seven primary categories, each representing
a crucial stage in our solution approach:
1. iCare-Foundation [Management & Semantics]
2. iCare-Architect [Design]
3. iCare-Patient [Management]
4. iCare-Provider [Management]
5. iCare-Discovery [Diagnostics, Knowledge]
6. iCare-Collaboration
7. iCare-Intelligence [Contextual, Correlated]
• These lifecycle stages or categories support both holistic

data interoperability and integration of Healthcare lifecycle
management objectives or projects.
Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture
What is Services Oriented Integration (SOI) ?
• Services Oriented Integration – This is a recognition
of the current limitations of SOA and what needs to be
added to it in order to fulfill expectations for enterprise
integration.
• SOA & SOE & SOF – Architecture, Environment
and Federation all require Integration to work properly
together. Semantics bind them all…
• SOA Standards in themselves do not solve most
integration issues for us, it is still our task to solve the
difficult problems using the best tools available.
• SOI thus represents; methodology, best practices and
specific design conventions for enterprise integration.
Agile ERP

Agile ERP
The Semantech Inc. ERP Solution is divided into three

capability categories, they are:
• IV&V ERP Oversight
• Holistic ERP Implementation
• ERP Project Recovery
In each of these ERP capability categories we provide the

following critical services:
• Rapid & Continuous Assessments

• Lifecycle Management
• Enterprise Integration
• Capability Assurance
Dynamic Learning

Dynamic Learning
Dynamic Learning Reference Architecture
• DLO is highly dependent on a shared discovery user
interface. This can be a portal or a web-based
application, but what is important is that it represents
a way to reach both structured & unstructured data /
content.
• Learning & access to real data should be provided
through the same interface – answers from analytics
can be applied to learning content and can become
personal and corporate knowledge bases.
• A shared Semantic Layer can logically integrate all
learning content (& potential content) with all other
enterprise information.
Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Architecture Fusion
• A time-boxed project engagement, lasting no more
than 90 days, which encompasses the following key
tasks and deliverables:
1. Initial Architecture Assessment
2. Architecture Alignment
3. Governance Alignment
4. Architecture Roadmap
• The Fusion Project is designed to assure that all
existing and future architectures are coordinated and
that architecture is aligned with Lifecycle Governance.
Some Fusion engagements also include solution
automation.
Dynamic Data Integration
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Dynamic Data Integration
• Dynamic Data Integration solutions are based upon

experience developing sophisticated DoD and
Federal Government data architectures. The
principles though can be leveraged in any industry to
provide support for any functional domain. DDI is
offered in three offerings:
1. Comprehensive (end to end architectures)
Data Solutions
2. Decision Support Solutions
3. Data Performance & Reengineering
Solutions
• All three offerings are built atop our SSI foundation.
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Conclusion - SSI
• At Semantech Inc., we believe that Semantic

Systems Integration will eventually become the
dominant approach for all systems integration.
• Why ? Because for the first time we stand on

the threshold of not having to reinvent
integration every time it is attempted in every
environment where it needs to occur.
• Let us help prove to you how this evolutionary

solutions paradigm can help transform your
enterprise.
Semantech Inc. Contact Information
Thank You…
Call 937-554-4673
Or contact slahanas@semantech-inc.com
For more Information

Check us out at http://www.semantech-inc.com

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Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved – Semantech Inc.

• This presentation is meant to provide an overview for a

• Section 1 - We will first highlight why traditional

• Section 2 - We will then introduce the concept of

• Section 3 - Finally, we will illustrate how it can be

• While we believe that the premise for Semantic

• Of the top 50 US Defense Contractors, more than 40

• Nearly 26% of Federal Government contracts are set

At Semantech Inc., Innovation is not a mandate, it’s our passion…

Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved – Semantech Inc. 6

• IT projects have a notoriously high failure rate. If we

• This is not opinion – it has been documented in 100’s

• Worst of all, this track record is only likely to get worse

Expectations are growing further out of alignment

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The Enterprise Program Management Office (PMO) is

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Most current systems integration approaches fail

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• The single biggest technical flaw with current systems

• This assumption leads to tremendous expense, few

• Data exchange and interoperability represent the heart

• Semantic Systems Integration is a Methodology, a

• Semantech Inc. is a Systems Integrator (SI). Our

• Semantech Inc. also provides integration oversight or

• Our methodology is based upon a rapid capability

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Governance is a Lifecycle of Lifecycles –

A Maturity Matrix represents an excellent

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• Data representations, programming languages,

• Why invent new ways to translate between dialects on

• This approach to systems integration is a rules-based

• Most importantly, we now have a foundation that for

Semantic Systems Integration lends itself perfectly to

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Semantic Systems Integration can also be used for

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Semantic Systems Integration is well-suited for high

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• Semantech Inc. is one of only about two dozen

• The following slides highlight some of the Semantic

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• These lifecycle stages or categories support both holistic

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The Semantech Inc. ERP Solution is divided into three

In each of these ERP capability categories we provide the

• Rapid & Continuous Assessments

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• Dynamic Data Integration solutions are based upon

• At Semantech Inc., we believe that Semantic

• Why ? Because for the first time we stand on

• Let us help prove to you how this evolutionary

For more Information

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