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Avum Awarded 5 Additional Years to Support the Navy Fleet & Family Service Centers Internet-Based Information Management System (FFSMIS)
October 29, 2013At the start of fiscal year 2014, Avum was awarded a five year follow-on contract to continue providing Web application development and business intelligence reporting to the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) for support of the Fleet & Family Service Centers (FFSC) Internet-Based Information Management System (FFSMIS).
The Commander, Navy Installation Command’s (CNIC) Fleet Family Support Programs Management Information System (FFSMIS) case management system is used to track child and spousal abuse incidents for the Counseling and Advocacy Management Systems at 71 sites worldwide. The CNIC uses FFSMIS to view and report collected data to analyze trends and metrics and to help determine data projections for the future. Avum enhanced FFSMIS to support new report and agency collaboration requirements for data submission and report generation to the Defense Manpower Data Center for quarterly Department of Defense collation.
Since 2008, Avum has been providing the CNIC with global web development service through software maintenance for the current FFSMIS environment, as well as administration and management of the system, including data collection, report analysis, supportive system upgrades, and enhancements. These objectives required that Avum perform system maintenance to include mitigation of both ongoing and emerging system issues through monitoring the FFSMIS electronic tracking system. Avum was called on to provide analysis and evaluation to adhere to CNIC’s new requirements for data collection and analysis, as well as support for report generation using Business Objects, while providing recommendations to promote and maintain system efficiency.
Since being entrusted with responsibility for the FFSMIS sustainment, Avum has established and iteratively improved a process to enable controlled FFSMIS development and continuing maintenance. Avum has brought the system of 2008 from an environment of nondeterministic change management and unstable, difficult to maintain code base to a level of support required by CNIC providing the Fleet & Family Service Centers (FFSC) with a stable and reliable application.
The improvements were carefully planned and accomplished in a stepwise fashion to allow for written process to precede and drive each development task. The objective was simple; improve efficiency and lower maintenance cost through modularizing and simplifying the code.
Avum is excited and honored to be able to continue working to maintain and improve the FFSMIS application.
cnic
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Avum Supports The Navy Fleet and Family Support Management Information System (FFSMIS)
February 16, 2010Avum was awarded a U.S. Navy five-year contract for the Fleet Family Support Programs Management Information Systems (FFSMIS) framework to support the system’s new reporting and agency collaboration requirements.
The FFSMIS framework was designed by the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) in 2005 to manage and track child and spousal abuse incidents. Currently, the program is used at over 70 worldwide sites by roughly 1000 users. This intensified demand for the application spurred a need for Avum to enhance the framework to deliver improved efficiency, as well as better record keeping and accountability.
During Avum’s assessment phase of the project, Avum was able to identify and correct configuration issues with the backup strategy, hardware configuration, operating system configuration, database instance configuration, Microsoft Cluster configuration and application base code.
“Avum has made significant gains in system stability and operational efficiency since winning the FFSMIS contract,” said Andrew Mora, Solutions Architect, Database Systems. “The configuration changes Avum made has provided a more stable platform, while the process of software engineering has made significant improvements to ongoing code releases.”
Four full time staff members work on the project and meet and brief daily for development meetings to plan tasks and make sure everything is in order and to ensure that weekly roles of each team member are clearly defined. Avum also hosts at least one meeting with the FFSMIS customer team monthly to keep them up to date with progress and work.
Day to day tasks include rewriting and automating data extraction and reporting processes, making gap modifications, updating, testing and releasing software and developing user training materials prior to the release of major changes, all of which are complaint with the existing program.
Eventually Avum will be making a significant migration of the entire FFSMIS system to a new virtual architecture.
Read MoreAvum Awarded 5 Additional Years to Support the Navy Fleet & Family Service Centers Internet-Based Information Management System (FFSMIS)
October 29, 2013At the start of fiscal year 2014, Avum was awarded a five year follow-on contract to continue providing Web application development and business intelligence reporting to the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) for support of the Fleet & Family Service Centers (FFSC) Internet-Based Information Management System (FFSMIS).
The Commander, Navy Installation Command’s (CNIC) Fleet Family Support Programs Management Information System (FFSMIS) case management system is used to track child and spousal abuse incidents for the Counseling and Advocacy Management Systems at 71 sites worldwide. The CNIC uses FFSMIS to view and report collected data to analyze trends and metrics and to help determine data projections for the future. Avum enhanced FFSMIS to support new report and agency collaboration requirements for data submission and report generation to the Defense Manpower Data Center for quarterly Department of Defense collation.
Since 2008, Avum has been providing the CNIC with global web development service through software maintenance for the current FFSMIS environment, as well as administration and management of the system, including data collection, report analysis, supportive system upgrades, and enhancements. These objectives required that Avum perform system maintenance to include mitigation of both ongoing and emerging system issues through monitoring the FFSMIS electronic tracking system. Avum was called on to provide analysis and evaluation to adhere to CNIC’s new requirements for data collection and analysis, as well as support for report generation using Business Objects, while providing recommendations to promote and maintain system efficiency.
Since being entrusted with responsibility for the FFSMIS sustainment, Avum has established and iteratively improved a process to enable controlled FFSMIS development and continuing maintenance. Avum has brought the system of 2008 from an environment of nondeterministic change management and unstable, difficult to maintain code base to a level of support required by CNIC providing the Fleet & Family Service Centers (FFSC) with a stable and reliable application.
The improvements were carefully planned and accomplished in a stepwise fashion to allow for written process to precede and drive each development task. The objective was simple; improve efficiency and lower maintenance cost through modularizing and simplifying the code.
Avum is excited and honored to be able to continue working to maintain and improve the FFSMIS application.
cnic
Read MoreAvum Supports The Navy Fleet and Family Support Management Information System (FFSMIS)
February 16, 2010Avum was awarded a U.S. Navy five-year contract for the Fleet Family Support Programs Management Information Systems (FFSMIS) framework to support the system’s new reporting and agency collaboration requirements.
The FFSMIS framework was designed by the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) in 2005 to manage and track child and spousal abuse incidents. Currently, the program is used at over 70 worldwide sites by roughly 1000 users. This intensified demand for the application spurred a need for Avum to enhance the framework to deliver improved efficiency, as well as better record keeping and accountability.
During Avum’s assessment phase of the project, Avum was able to identify and correct configuration issues with the backup strategy, hardware configuration, operating system configuration, database instance configuration, Microsoft Cluster configuration and application base code.
“Avum has made significant gains in system stability and operational efficiency since winning the FFSMIS contract,” said Andrew Mora, Solutions Architect, Database Systems. “The configuration changes Avum made has provided a more stable platform, while the process of software engineering has made significant improvements to ongoing code releases.”
Four full time staff members work on the project and meet and brief daily for development meetings to plan tasks and make sure everything is in order and to ensure that weekly roles of each team member are clearly defined. Avum also hosts at least one meeting with the FFSMIS customer team monthly to keep them up to date with progress and work.
Day to day tasks include rewriting and automating data extraction and reporting processes, making gap modifications, updating, testing and releasing software and developing user training materials prior to the release of major changes, all of which are complaint with the existing program.
Eventually Avum will be making a significant migration of the entire FFSMIS system to a new virtual architecture.
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