Profile: Allied Strategy, LLC is a new venture organization that provides data transfer and interpretation to other organizations. Allied Strategy's Decision Support Network (DSN) is designed to facilitate the transfer of verification information, such as motor vehicle records and credit reports, from reporting agencies to clients who use this information in their business decision-making processes. Allied Strategy's initial target market lies in the property and casualty insurance industry.

Problem/Opportunity: There is no standard format or technology by which organizations provide information. It is left to the organization requesting the information to interpret the data and put it in a useable form. This becomes a substantial burden for organizations that use multiple data sources because each report must be manually interpreted and entered into their information system.

Solution: As a new venture, Allied Strategy's entire information system is under construction. The J.D. Edwards Design Studio Team is developing a key component of this new system.

For their portion of this project the J.D. Edwards team will:

1. Design the structure of the report ordering module
2. Write services for use in a distributed computing environment
3. Establish connectivity to a number of reporting agencies
4. Convert proprietary and inconsistently formatted reports into an industry-standard format
5. Translate reports from an industry-standard format into viewable documents

Technologies:

Java, Jini, and Rio
FreeBSD
XML/XSL
PostgreSQL