BI: Knowledge Navigation at the U.S. Naval Academy
Alan Harmon
Technical Director, Institutional Research Office
U.S. Naval Academy
Edith Purdie
Senior Analyst
U.S. Naval Academy
March 7, 2007
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Level: Introductory/All Levels
The U.S. Naval Academy uses a suite of tools and methods
to accomplish its mission of creating officers and leaders. Business
intelligence is performed by a Knowledge Navigator, which includes the
data warehouse, the metadata repository, predictive analysis, and business
rules engine. Careful integration and deployment of these products allows
leveraging technical solutions for maximum information dissemination
with a minimum of resources. This presentation will discuss our comprehensive
vision and implementations of our roadmap.
We will share details of:
We will share details of:
- Data Warehouse, with the systems of record, which are the back bone of the data infrastructure
- Metadata Repository which integrates the strategic, operational and application levels
- Predictive Analysis which generates defensible predictions and business rule generation
- Business Process Modeling (BPM) which has allowed us to re-engineer and gain organizational efficiencies.
Alan Harmon is the Technical Director in Institutional Research,
Planning, and Assessment at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis,
MD. Mr. Harmon came to the Naval Academy in 1997 to engineer an institutional
knowledge management platform for internal and DoD users. He is responsible
for the data warehouse, metadata repository, and other assessment modeling
tools used for institutional assessment.
Prior to his work at USNA, Mr. Harmon worked for Westinghouse Space Communications in satellite command and control as well as spacecraft simulation development. Mr. Harmon also worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in cash management for the development of a secure, encrypted electronic funds transfer between major commercial and federally-chartered banking institutions.
Mr. Harmon holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from the Whiting School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to his work at USNA, Mr. Harmon worked for Westinghouse Space Communications in satellite command and control as well as spacecraft simulation development. Mr. Harmon also worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in cash management for the development of a secure, encrypted electronic funds transfer between major commercial and federally-chartered banking institutions.
Mr. Harmon holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from the Whiting School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University.
Edith Purdie is a consultant at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence. Since 2002 she has been involved in the metadata repository, predictive analysis, and business rules processing in the institutional research area. Ms. Purdie has been in the technology industry for 30 years, supporting the Federal Government, international organizations, and private industry. She was involved in business process modeling at several organizations, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).