The Future is Intelligent Decision Support...


Who We Are:

Cougaar Software, Inc. is an Intelligent Decision Support Solutions provider - we help people make complex decisions faster, with greater confidence, and with full consideration of the available data. We do this through a combination of automation, distributed computing and advanced information processing. In short, we take all the difficult, time-consuming parts of solving a problem and put them into the computer, then provide the results and options in nice user interfaces that empower users to understand, reason over, and make good decisions on the set of results.

What We Do:

We deliver turn-key custom solutions as well as provide technologies and training for developers for next generation intelligent decision support solutions addressing today's toughest business problems. We use a framework of intelligent cognitive agents, augmented with various optimization and reasoning technologies, to form advanced distributed solutions that are secure, scalable and highly automated.

How We Do It:

Our flagship product, ActiveEdge®, is a full featured development platform for creating distributed, intelligent decision support solutions. We provide design, development and integration services for ActiveEdge and Open Source Cougaar, as well as training and technical support. Our typical intelligent decision support solution addresses large, complex problems with significant amounts of data which must be reasoned over and acted upon in near real-time. We specialize in designing and building systems around the Sense & Respond paradigm, and can span the spectrum from event monitoring of sensor devices to to distributed collaborative planning and advanced decision support. Our platform is domain independent, allowing us to create solutions in logistics, operations, planning, retail and other functional areas.

How We Fit into the Enterprise:

ActiveEdge Intelligent Decision Support Solutions do not require a wholesale re-engineering of the enterprise, rather they easily integrate with existing systems to form a thin layer of intelligence augmenting current capabilities with more automation, reasoning and decision making power. A core component of our approach to intelligent decision support is the creation and utilization of rich situational representations for reasoning and decision support. These situations are defined using a sophisticated object-semantic model and managed by an advanced situational reasoning engine. The representation and engine allow us to create high-fidelity distributed representations of the situation, which then serves as the basis for deep reasoning, planning, visualization and decision support. Our open architecture approach allows us to integrate using web services, SQL/JDBC, JMS, RMI, XML data feeds, and custom interfaces. Processing and fusing this data into a rich situational picture, and using this situational representation as the basis for advanced decision support, is an economical way to add capabilities and automation to existing investments. ActiveEdge can cost effectively add situational intelligence and reasoning to your existing enterprise infrastructure.

Click here to learn more about our Situational Reasoning Framework and how it can be used to create Situationally Aware Intelligent Decision Support solutions.