DISA's Open Source Corporate Management Information System (OSCMIS) Jeff Smart, Georgia Tech Research Institute

1. DISA’s Open Source Corporate Management Information System (CMIS) Jeff Smart Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

2. OSCMIS Home Page

4. Built almost entirely in Adobe ColdFusion 9 and MS SQL Server 2005

5. HR Suite

6. Security Suite

7. Training Suite

8. Additional applications, tools, reports, links, and more

9. Fully DISA security accredited, PKI enabled software

10. Uses role-based access management

11. OSCMIS knows who you are, who your peers are, what you are authorized to access, and your chain of command and applies that to what you can see and use

12. Notifications of actions requiring response by others are provided by machine generated email between initiator, current responder, and next responder throughout

13. System requirements

14. Adobe ColdFusion 9

15. Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 or other SQL database

16. LDAP or ocsp server for authentication

17. Web server

19. Automated SF-50, Telework Management, On-Boarding, Manpower, Military Manpower, and more!

20. Comprehensive Personnel and Physical Security tools

21. Virtually all DoD requirements can be performed in the Security suite

22. Actions are tracked as to time and person modifying record, are auditable

23. Acquisition Corporate Management Information System (ACMIS)

24. DoD designated tool for Acquisition community training management is a component application within OSCMIS, as are multiple special tools and reports

25. Learning Management System

26. Comprehensive product for training administration, competitive training selection, military training requirements (all services), mandatory training, intern development, mentoring, individual and group electronic SF-182’s and more

27. Balanced Scorecard

28. Used by all of DISA, built to DISA practice: simultaneous measure, task, milestone, and progress panes, plus chart of goals to performance quarterly and annually

29. Protocol Office

30. Comprehensive event planning application to track all aspects of events

31. Calendar and event views, comprehensive planning capabilities

32. DISA Alert Notification (DAN) and Personnel Accountability Management (PAM)

33. Comprehensive, customizable, email and text message alerts for specific groups, with many added capabilities in DAN including instructions for action, attachments, test messages, variable email From, and more

34. PAM provides status response update mechanism for individuals to management, comprehensive organizational group and individual status tracking

36. Government Link Examples

37. Office of Personnel Management (OPM): www.opm.gov

38. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS): www.dod.mil/dfas

39. DoD Employee Benefits Information System (EBIS): ebis.satx.disa.mil

40. Native Applications

41. Adobe ColdFusion 9

42. Written by DISA developers

43. Independent (modular) applications in the Web server

44. Modular design supports highly configurable CMIS versions

45. Modular design supports sharing among CMIS versions

46. One-to-one mapping to database in SQL Server instance

48. Modular Configuration Enables Customization

49. All Application Modules interface with Manpower and Portal Privileges Databases

50. Customer data loading begins with Manpower Database CMIS User Manpower … Privileges Security Training Telework Microsoft 2005/2008 SQL Server Personnel, Security, Training Administrative Data Input

52. Begun 1997, recoded into Adobe ColdFusion, MS SQL Server 2005 in 2005-2006

53. 16,000 customers at 40 sites including tactical sites in south Asia

54. Currently contains 109 applications and tools, hundreds of reports and links

55. Six full time government developers work 2-3 dozen projects at once

56. One DBA, 2 systems administrators, 1 security rep, and 1 systems analyst support part time

57. ColdFusion ease of development, speed, and security enabled this team to field 63 new products and substantially upgrade 69 more in FY2009

58. Many products readily usable by non-Federal or even non-government organizations

59. Established Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) in 2009

60. Software is copyrighted by OSSI (www.oss-institute.org)

61. Licensable under Open Source License v.3

62. NOT a GPL/LGPL license—allows proprietary software to be used in conjunction with OSCMIS and remain proprietary

64. Customization

65. Development

66. Automate Data Loading

67. Installation Support

68. Training

69. Access to Information, Source Code, and Demonstration

70. OSSI Home Page (Program and Activities): www.oss-institute.org

71. DISA-provided OSCMIS disc

73. DISA thread still being developed by original authors

74. Current version 3.10.2

75. New release at end of each (calendar year) quarter

76. Open Source thread

77. Maintained by Open Source Technology Research Consortium under DISA CRADA

78. Close cooperation with DISA original developers

79. Available for customization into new threads

80. Other Government versions

81. Maintained by individual agencies

82. More than 70 Federal to local government, industry, academic organizations, and even individuals have licensed as of February 2010