Cougaar Software’s ActiveEdge® Middleware is an intelligent agent-based middleware platform for building complex, distributed, intelligent applications. ActiveEdge is designed to transform data into usable knowledge and give you active visibility into your enterprise operations.
ActiveEdge is a dynamic and adaptive sensor-enabled, middleware software platform. It collects data from a wide variety of distributed data sources and models including systems, software, and sensor hardware such as RFID and bar codes, cyber intrusion detection systems, temperature control sensors, etc. It then turns this data into intelligent and actionable business information and integrates effortlessly back into your enterprise applications such as ERP, Supply Chain Management, Transportation Management, Warehouse Management, Facilities Management, to name a few. The overall purpose of ActiveEdge is to allow enterprises to create an operational understanding of events as applied to their business context, detect emerging trends and then react to these trends in an accurate and time-critical manner.
ActiveEdge creates an understandable real-time picture of enterprise operations and provides execution monitoring and collaborative decision support.
To enable users to perform with advanced focus and clarity in their unique environments, event triggers, alerts, information analysis, and reporting are fully customizable.
Ultimately, ActiveEdge empowers organizations to be agile, adaptive, and flexible.
ActiveEdge Applications
The benefits of ActiveEdge are directly applicable to such areas as logistics, the modern supply chain, enterprise operations, business intelligence, and other areas with complex business rules and processes that must handle diverse data sets.
ActiveEdge RFID - CSI has released a version of ActiveEdge specifically for the Logistics/Supply Chain space that allows near real-time visibility with operator-defined business processes and rules that allow you to manage and react efficiently in the entire supply chain.
ActiveEdge DDE - ActiveEdge includes a powerful Distributed Data Environment (DDE) that integrates both homogenous and heterogeneous data sources into a single, distributed environment. The DDE offers advanced information management and data mediation capabilities and can support volumes of data from diverse, distributed sources and models.
ActiveEdge SRF - Based on a combination of modern game theory techniques & concurrent network concepts, situation management is one of the most innovative components of ActiveEdge. With our unique situational reasoning framework (SRF), ActiveEdge provides real-time display of the dynamic situation in a rich, virtual world picture, which can be further acted upon by the ActiveEdge services and your custom applications.
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