Carleton Wins Project With Virginia Department of Transportation.EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998-- Virginia Department of Transportation The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the government agency responsible for building, maintaining and operating Virginia's roads, bridges and tunnels. It is overseen by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, which has the power to fund airports, seaports, rail Selects Carleton's PASSPORT and Enterprise/Integrator Solutions to Rapidly Deploy Centralized Data Warehouse Carleton (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CARL) announced today its new business win with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT VDOT Virginia Department of Transportation ), the third largest department of transportation in the nation. VDOT purchased Carleton's PASSPORT(TM) and Enterprise/Integrator(TM) solutions to provide data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). , transformation and cleansing capabilities needed to deploy their centralized data warehouse program. Carleton is partnering with systems integrator Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. ) on the project to provide VDOT with a highly powerful and comprehensive data warehouse solution. The VDOT data warehouse program will provide its more than 10,000 users with quick access to high quality business information throughout the organization. By building a centralized data management system, VDOT can better service the analytical business needs of the agency, including program planning, scheduling, road inventory and usage tracking. SAIC's TransCore division provides the transportation consulting and engineering services to develop the Enterprise Data Model (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management ) for the program. Carleton provides the software, support and training needed to integrate the company's legacy data from disparate sources and locations. Both companies will work together to provide VDOT with a highly powerful data management repository that provides quick and easy access to multi-departmental data and serves as the definitive source of transportation information within the agency. "Carleton offers a powerful data integration solution required to rapidly build and populate our centralized data warehouse," said J.B. Robinson, VDOT data warehouse project manager. "The Carleton solution teamed with TransCore's transportation consulting services, provides us with a compelling end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for the rapid deployment of our data warehouse program." "VDOT has selected PASSPORT and Enterprise/Integrator to speed the delivery of integrated data for initial load and ongoing maintenance of its data warehouse," said Daniel Papiernik, TransCore's program manager for integrated business solutions. "We look forward to jointly developing solutions we can bring to the transportation market based on a successful combination of skills, processes and technology." "Customers today are demanding a full scope of data extraction, cleansing and refinement capabilities necessary for their data integration needs," said Travis Richardson, Carleton's vice president of marketing. "By successfully partnering with system integrators such as SAIC, Carleton demonstrates the value of PASSPORT and Enterprise/Integrator as an integral part of the overall data warehouse solution." About PASSPORT Carleton's PASSPORT is a powerful native database extraction and transformation tool used to prepare data for business-critical applications such as enterprise data warehouses, managed data marts and packaged application conversions. PASSPORT provides high-performance extraction from a broad range of corporate databases including ADABAS A database management system (DBMS) from Software AG, Reston, VA (www.softwareagusa.com) for IBM mainframes, VAXes, Unix and Windows. It is an inverted list DBMS with relational capabilities. , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , DB2, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method , IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX. 1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2. ["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)]. , Datacom and others. The product's advanced meta data-driven architecture improves life cycle management, resulting in increased development productivity and reduced maintenance costs. PASSPORT operates on a variety of platforms including MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , AS/400, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT. Many Fortune 1000 companies use PASSPORT to reduce the time, costs and risk of implementing their business critical applications. About Enterprise/Integrator Enterprise/Integrator is an advanced data refinement tool that enables data warehouse developers to create integrated views of important business information such as customers, products and suppliers, from disparate data sources. Its unique strengths include its ability to handle complex matching and consolidation requirements, its powerful data validation and cleansing features, and its ability to handle intelligent incremental updates to the data warehouse. Enterprise/Integrator operates on Windows NT and UNIX platforms. About Carleton Carleton provides rapid data integration solutions for business critical applications such as data warehousing and application conversions. The Company markets its products and services to Fortune 1000 clients in industries such as financial services, insurance, health care and manufacturing. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , Carleton distributes its technology and consulting services through direct sales and channel partners worldwide. For more information, call 800-328-3998, send e-mail to info@carleton.com or visit Carleton's Web site at http://www.carleton.com. About TransCore and SAIC TransCore provides a wide range of transportation technology services including advanced traffic management system design and deployment; automated toll collection systems; enterprise information systems; and intelligent transportation border crossing systems. TransCore's parent company, employee-owned SAIC, provides high-technology products and services to government and commercial customers in the areas of information technology, telecommunications, systems integration, health systems and services, national and international security, energy, transportation and environmental systems and engineering. With the recent acquisition of Bellcore, SAIC and its subsidiaries have estimated annual revenues of $4 billion and more than 33,000 employees at offices in over 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at SAIC (www.saic.com). Information about Bellcore is available at Bellcore (www.bellcore.com). All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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