ESRI
On any given day, more than 1,000,000 people around the world use ESRI's GIS to improve the way their organizations conduct business. Founded in 1969, ESRI's GIS solutions are emerging as an integral component in nearly every type of business and government service.
Headquarted in Redlands, California, ESRI has offices throughout the United States; a business partner program with more than 2,000 developers, consultants, resellers, and data providers; and a network of more than 75 international distributors with users in more than 200 countries.
ESRI also offers a wide range of high quality professional services supporting GIS design, implementation, and application. Since 1969 ESRI staff has supported thousands of organizations throughout the world in the implementation of GIS tools and technology. Services range from short-term implementation support to the development of digital databases and application solutions.
Core Capabilities
Configuration Management and Licensing:
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Database Design and Administration and Data Storage Management: The function of composing records, each containing fields together with a set of operations for searching sorting, recombining, and other functions. This includes determination of content, internal structure, and access strategy for a database, as well as defining security and integrity, and monitoring performance. A database is considered to be a collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data.
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E-Business Planning and Support:
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Independent Verification and Validation: Shall provide technical resources to define, develop, and conduct Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) Tests to assess: 1) the capacity of BPR to improve system services and capabilities; 2) Software Life Cycle Management (SLCM) functions; 3) the support provided for electronic commerce; and 4) other IV&V as required or identified in TO. Validation tests shall be designed to ensure that the software developed fully addresses the requirements established to provide specific system operation functions and capabilities. Verification testing shall be designed to determine whether the software code is logically correct for the operation functions for which it was designed.
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Information Architecture Analysis and Web Object Indexing: Analysis of the hardware and/or software, or a combination of hardware and software, of a system. The architecture of a system always defines its broad outlines, and may define precise mechanisms as well. Web Object Indexing is a website intended to enable a user to obtain other resources on the web. The web index may contain a search facility or may merely contain individual hyperlinks to the resources indexed.
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Information Management Life Cycle Planning/Support:
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Integration Support: Assistance in assembling diverse hardware and/or software components together to work as a system.
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Internet System Architecture and Webmaster Support:
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Mainframe/Data Processing System Support:
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Office Automation Support/Help Desk Support:
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Technical Support: Provide planning, analysis, troubleshooting, integration, acquisition, installation, operations, maintenance, training, documentation, and administration services for computer centers. Also maintain a centralized technical assistance service that supports problem resolution and distributes general computer center information.
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Training, Training Development, and Training Center Support (including Computer Based Training):
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Hardware and Software Maintenance and /or Licensing: Provide for software/hardware maintenance and/or software licenses from 3rd party vendors in support of tasks falling within this functional area.
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System and Software Design, Development, Engineering, and Integration: A set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. Providing for project management, planning, design, building and implementation of client specific applications, taking responsibility for achieving contractually specified results.
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Information Technology (IT) Strategic Planning, Program Assessment, and Studies: Provide resources to support in the development, analysis, and implementation of IT strategies, architectures, program planning and assessment, and risk, trade-off, requirements, alternatives, and feasibility studies that advance the goals and objectives of the Government.
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Automated Workflow System Development and Integration: The defined series of tasks within an organization to produce a final outcome. Sophisticated workgroup computing applications allow you to define different workflows for different types of jobs. The workflow software ensures that the individuals responsible for the next task are notified and receive the data they need to execute their stage of the process.
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Business Process Reengineering: Provide resources to support in the development, analysis, and implementation of improvements in the flow of business, work, and program processes and tool utilization.
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Software Life Cycle Management (SLCM): Provide resources to support any or all phases and stages of SLCM, including planning, analysis, troubleshooting, integration, acquisition, installation, operation, maintenance, training, documentation, and administration. The Contractor may be responsible for obtaining and/or supporting the necessary software, hardware, firmware, resources, etc. required for a system project.
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Software Engineering (SWE): Provide software engineering support (including planning, analysis, design, evaluation, testing, quality assurance, and project management) in the application of computer equipment through computer programs, procedures, tools, and associated documentation.
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Information Technology Architecture (ITA) Support:
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Instructional Design, and Modeling & Simulation: Provide instructional design, and modeling & simulation. Instructional Design is the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. It is the entire process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs. It includes development of instructional materials and activities; and tryout and evaluation of all instruction and learner activities. Instructional Design is that branch of knowledge concerned with research and theory about instructional strategies and the process for developing and implementing those strategies. Instructional Design is the science of creating detailed specifications for the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of situations that facilitate the learning of both large and small units of subject matter at all levels of complexity. Instructional Design can start at any point in the design process. Often a glimmer of an idea is developed to give the core of an instruction situation. By the time the entire process is done the designer looks back and she or he checks to see that all parts of the "science" have been taken into account. Then the entire process is written up as if it occurred in a systematic fashion.
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SCE/CMM/CMMI Analyses and Implementation Support: SOFTWARE CAPABILITY EVALUATION (SCE) -- It may be necessary on certain task orders to perform software capability evaluations (SCE). The Government may use the SCE (see 1.5.1 and 1.5.2) developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) www.sei.cmu.edu , Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, in evaluating the contractor's/subcontractor's task order proposal. The SCE level required will be specified in individual task orders. CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL (CMM) -- The Capability Maturity Model for Software (or SW-CMM) is used for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes. CAPACITY MATURITY MODEL INTEGRATION (CMMI) -- The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) provides models for achieving product and process improvement. The output of the CMMI project is a suite of products, which provides an integrated approach across the enterprise for improving processes, while reducing the redundancy, complexity and cost resulting from the use of separate and multiple capability maturity models (CMMs). To improve the efficiency of model use and increase the return on investment, the CMMI project was created to provide a single integrated set of models.
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