Teksouth has provided conceptual design and architectural implementation to the present operation of CRIS for over 5 years. We have an in-depth understanding of CRIS technical architecture and a solid performance history.

CRIS Performance

The Commanders' Resource Integration System (CRIS) has provided Air Force financial analysts and decision makers a powerful end-to-end business intelligence solution for the past five years. Growth has been nothing short of phenomenal, from just a few hundred users initially to more than 13,000 today. The system's performance has been remarkable, sustaining a level of response time despite astounding growth in users and queries submitted. The system has performed particularly well under heavy surge usage.

Growth and Performance: ’04 vs. ’05 Snapshot

• In FY 2005 CRIS experienced growth in all areas: users (+33%), number of queries (+83%), and closeout surge – queries in the final month of the year (+66%).
• Speed of response to users improved under these conditions (+20%).
• Refresh systems worked well and were critical to performance.

Performance Summary

• CRIS usage at the end of fiscal year 2005 is already as high as it was predicted to be at the end of fiscal year 2006.
• During fiscal year 2005 CRIS served more than 13,000 active users (33% more than 2004).
• During fiscal year 2005 CRIS executed more than 6 million queries (83% more than 2004).
• During the month of September 2005 (year-end closeout) CRIS executed 1,011,151 queries (66% more than last September).
• During the last day in fiscal year 2005 CRIS executed 105,408 queries (58% more than the same day last September). This was by far the busiest day in CRIS history and the average response time was 9 seconds.

Teksouth's Technical Role

• Engineering, Design & Architecture,
• Detailed knowledge of the 250 feeds and 19 data groups
  • Know the databases and data,
• Engineering and development for CRIS instrumental in:
  • Increased performance,
  • Ensuring accuracy and reliability with ever increasing data, and
  • Establishing broad user acceptance.
• Developed and maintain:
  • Warehouse Manager software-interface for data staging,
  • Data Staging methodology,
  • Data Mart Manager application
  • Defines frequently used subsets of warehouse data,
  • Intelligent Mid-Tier technology
  • "intelligent" gateway between users and warehouse,
  • Info Analyst™
  • Front-end query tool providing query access to transaction level, and
  • Decision Support System tools - web-based .NET management decision aiding tools to exploit warehouses providing simplicity to user.
• Rapid development and deployment:
  • On-going development of leading-edge features
  • Intelligent Mid-Tier, Data Marts
  • Parallel Publishing, fault tolerant Role Server, etc.