| Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the foundation and building blocks of software systems. The infrastructure enables hardware, software and service components to operate, function and communicate across the enterprise. ASSYST’s Infrastructure Services allow for secure communication and interoperability between all business and application service components of the agency. Infrastructure services facilitate the development and maintenance of critical technology required to support Federal government business operations. Agencies utilize ASSYST’s Infrastructure Services to deliver IT solutions to their customers and users both internal and external, in an efficient and effective manner. These services include hardware, software, licensing, technical support, and warranty services as well as technological refreshment and enhancements. ASSYST’s Infrastructure Services include full life cycle support and involve activities such as planning, analysis, research and development, design, development, integration and testing, implementation, operations and maintenance, information assurance, disposition and retirement. The services include administration and help desk functions necessary to support the IT infrastructure. The Infrastructure components covered include a broad range of solutions that result in the implementation of an integrated IT solution. They are categorized as follows: Service Access and Delivery– This area of infrastructure provides external access, exchange and delivery of services and capabilities to facilitate the end-to-end collection and distribution of data and information. These components provide the functionality to communicate in a legacy, client-server, ERP or Web environment. ASSYST’s Service Access and Delivery Services provide expertise to Federal agencies for Web technology, VPN, RADIUS, Peer-to-peer, and 508 compliance. The various protocols supported include HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. Areas of expertise include analyzing and evaluating legislative and regulatory requirements governing the access and usage of the specific data, information and service components. By following standards, policies and procedures ASSYST partners with agencies to define the level of access to applications and systems based upon the type of network required. ASSYST provides the expertise required to identify the service requirements, define the necessary aspects of the application, system and service, review and define the optimal service transport protocol required for the end-to-end management of the communications session to include access and delivery protocols.
 Service Platform and Infrastructure – This infrastructure area focuses on standardizing architecture and architecture service components using platforms, hardware and support infrastructure to provide the functionality required for processing and storing data. These components provide and manage the resources available for desktops, laptops, mobile devices, servers, mainframes, routers, switches, printers, and scanners. The services include providing platform and infrastructure solutions for ATM, T3, T1, DSL, and Ethernet. The services include platform and infrastructure solutions to support Windows, UNIX, Java, .NET, Web Servers, Web Portals, Database, Data Storage, Data Warehouse, and the Software Development Tools. ASSYST’s expertise includes testing, modeling, versioning, and configuration management. As a strategic partner ASSYST works with agencies to define the collection of platforms, hardware and infrastructure standards that enable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). ASSYST provides solutions for storage, modification, and extraction of information from a database using various techniques and devices for storing and retrieving large amounts of data. ASSYST supports the front-end platforms that provide information to enterprise and departmental applications. Areas of expertise include hardware, operating systems, server software and networking protocols.
Component Framework– This is the infrastructure area that focuses on the design of applications or system software that incorporates interfaces for interacting with other programs so services can be expanded or extended. ASSYST provides solutions that help agencies define higher level logical functions, for example service components that include digital certificates, biometrics, and business logic. ASSYST’s expertise includes data interchange technologies such as SOAP, RDF, SQL, ODBC, and OLAP. Our expertise includes defining the underlying foundation and technical elements which comprise a complete set of service components and the construction, integration and deployment of Component-Based and Distributed Architectures. As a strategic partner, ASSYST helps agencies develop the business logic for the software application, the protocol and methods used to implement and enforce the business rules in the system. ASSYST specializes in data interchange, data management and data administration. The services include defining the data standards, how information will be used, and the information assurance requirements. ASSYST focuses on information security by protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction in order to provide integrity, confidentiality and availability.
Service Interface and Integration– This service area focuses on the interaction and communication technologies joining disparate systems and information. The enterprise and departmental applications implemented by ASSYST leverage and incorporate these components to provide interoperability, scalability, and extendibility. ASSYST provides expertise in Messaging-Oriented Middleware (MOM), Object Request Broker (ORB), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), EXtensible Markup Language (XML), and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). ASSYST is a solutions provider of WSDL, and UDDI. ASSYST leverages SOA to incorporate interfaces and integration standards for interoperability. ASSYST's Interface and Integration Services enable elements of distributed business applications to interoperate. These elements can share function, content and communications across heterogeneous computing environments. ASSYST incorporates interface standards that allow agencies to better share data and services across disparate systems.
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