Business Opportunities

• Accelerated Time-to-Market: Jumpstart digital transformation across multiple enterprise-wide systems, significantly reducing time-to-market.
• Integration Challenges: Aging architecture, upgrades of Oracle Agile, Windchill SaaS, Solumina and Costpoint was a bottleneck, leading to integration technical debt.
• Data Complexity: The complexity of overlapping data and system interdependencies posed challenges.
• Optimizing Data Transfer: There was a critical need to streamline data transfer processes and ensure consistent reliability across systems.
• Hybrid Deployments of Systems: The hybrid nature of On-premises and Cloud systems required secure and efficient data communication to ensure smooth operations.
• Technical Debt: Legacy systems created barriers to smooth integration.

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

• Manual Workflows eliminated: Transitioned to paperless systems with traceability and data quality established.
• Streamlined Workflows: By eliminating the dependency on interim data constructs within Costpoint, eQube^® simplified workflows, reducing manual data handling and enhanced operational efficiency.
• ERP Insights: The integration provided Leidos with real-time access to ERP data, resulting in accelerated decision-making processes and delivering a comprehensive view of their operations.
• Enhanced Security: eQube^® implemented advanced security protocols, including OAuth and AD authentication, to fortify system interactions and safeguard the data.
• Centralized Change Management: Leidos leveraged eQube^®-DaaS Platform and achieved centralized change management within their PLM eco-system. This resulted in better cross-team design coordination and reduced time-to-market.
• Reduction of Technical Debt: Modernized architecture, making it robust and upgrade tolerant.

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.
• 4-month cycle for Agile solution.
• 220 ECNs per week in Agile and 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.