Business Opportunities

• Shorter time-to-market: Accelerate Digital Transformation across multiple enterprise-wide systems with eQube®-DaaS Platform.
• Integration Bottlenecks & Technical Debt: Difficulties surfaced in harmonizing the Oracle Agile, Windchill SaaS, Solumina, & Costpoint systems due to the obsolescence caused by architecture & system upgrades.
• Data Complexity: Ensuring coherence in overlapping data and managing the interdependencies between systems created significant complexities, thereby obstructing seamless integration.
• Data Optimization: There was a need to streamline data transfer and ensure reliability across their systems.
• Hybrid Framework Intricacies: On-prem and Cloud systems which demanded secure data communications.

Features

eQube^®-MI and eQube^®-TM provided features like:

• Cohesive integration framework, facilitating seamless communication between Oracle Agile, Windchill, and Solumina.
• Key process automation was for BOM generation in Costpoint, employing advanced queuing mechanisms to ensure data transfer was both sequential, and reliable.
• Enhanced velocity and reliability of data integrations across Leidos' complex IT landscape.

eQube^® Benefits

• Enabled paperless and connected systems by removing manual processes which established traceability, genealogy & data quality.
• eQ's
integration solution eliminated the dependency on interim data constructs in Costpoint, leading to a reduction in manual data handling and workflow simplification.
• The integration provided immediate insights into ERP data, accelerating decision processes and yielding a holistic operational perspective.
• eQube®-DaaS enabled centralized change management within PLM, enhancing cross-team design coordination and expediting time-to-market.
• Enhanced security protocols were established via OAuth and AD authentication, strengthening
system interactions.
• Enabled robust and upgrade tolerant architecture.

eQ Process

• Agile model for solution delivery.
• Rapid development and deployment using eQube®-DaaS platform.
• Detailed system integration testing of various use cases.
• Integration solution first built for Windchill then reused to extend connectivity to Oracle Agile.
• 6-month cycle to configure, test, deploy and go-live for the Windchill solution and 4-month cycle for Agile solution.
• Data volume: 220 ECNs per week in Agile and are poised to go live in Windchill.

eQube^® Products Used

• eQube^® Integration Suite: eQube^®-MI and eQube^®-TM
• eQube^® Connectors: Windchill Cloud, Oracle Agile, Costpoint and Solumina

• Implementation of PLM side of the triangle.
• Data federation of PLM CRs affected objects & Costpoint impact analysis data.
• Report triggered on CRB Review and attached to the CR itself.
• ECN, Impacted Parts, EBOM and Alternate Parts synced from PLM to Costpoint whenever a CN is Released.
• MBOM components copied to CN by site configuration.
• CN status set to “In approval” state in Costpoint.
• Links to documents in PLM transferred as Catalogs in Solumina.
• Data lineage maintained by using blocking queues.