ActiveEdge Architecture

ActiveEdge offers a full framework for building intelligent applications and provides a comprehensive tool suite for developing such applications. Based on existing standards and open technologies like Java, SOAP, OWL, XML, and the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar), ActiveEdge saves significant research time and development effort as well as takes advantage of proven capabilities. The ActiveEdge architecture, as shown in Figure 1, is composed of a series of layers that each provides specific services and capabilities. It provides real-time intelligence and event management by using agents. ActiveEdge manages real-time processing of high volumes of data (from sensor signals, external systems, etc.) and transforms this data into intelligent and actionable business information. The actionable information is then delivered as powerful dashboards to individuals or pushed to systems in or outside the enterprise.

Figure 1 The Logical ActiveEdge Architecture

ActiveEdge provides a user-friendly visualization tool that lets users quickly and easily create task-specific, collaborative applications. In addition, users can modify process flows graphically without changing any code—they can easily ‘drag-and-drop’ components from one application to another.

ActiveEdge offers advanced information management and data mediation capabilities and can support volumes of data from diverse, distributed sources and models, integrating that data into a single environment. Based on this mediated data, the ActiveEdge Situation Management component provides situation awareness and active visibility into your operations by presenting a virtual world view of your entire enterprise activities. In addition, it provides capabilities for advanced monitoring and alerts, automated rules and workflow, and quick, dynamic adjustment of those rules and workflow as needed.