COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. and COLUMBIA, Md., April 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Integral Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ISYS) announced today that it will be demonstrating its SATOPS Enterprise architecture at the 26th National Space Symposium (NSS). The powerful enterprise architecture provides satellite and space operators with a platform for a comprehensive Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capability by integrating mission relevant multi-source data from Integral Systems best-in-class products and technology, as well as third-party products and data sources. Utilizing Integral Systems' WebIC™ Thin Client product, the new architecture easily integrates diverse external data sources, to provide operators with dynamic, real-time situational awareness. Easily customizable by authorized users, WebIC™ Thin Client supports a User-Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) capability.
Enterprise Architectures are being implemented by organizations across the commercial, civilian, and military sectors to help reduce complexity and increase scalability of developing and deploying capabilities to the end user. These architectures provide mechanisms that allow diverse software applications and components to interoperate with each other and with software supplied by partners and customers to increase awareness of mission-critical information. Enterprise Architectures promote well-defined application interfaces and software re-use through modular services and integration components that define the relationship between system processes, data, and components. Integral Systems SATOPS Enterprise Architecture provides a commercial product-based platform for a flexible service-based architecture.
"Our customers require that their systems have the scalability to integrate into both existing and new architectures," said Robert Wright, senior vice president of Integral Systems Military and Intelligence Group. "Our SATOPS Enterprise Architecture is a flexible, data source agnostic architecture that gives our customers the ability to more easily integrate our powerful, best-in-class products while minimizing changes to existing applications. It is an ideal platform for customers addressing Space Situational Awareness (SSA). Our WebIC technology allows users to define their SSA picture and customize it to provide relevant data from multiple outside sources."
Integral Systems SATOPS Enterprise Comprehensive Space Situational Awareness on Display at NSS
To showcase the power of Integral Systems SATOPS Enterprise, the company is featuring a broad, multi-faceted demonstration that provides Space Situational Awareness (SSA) at this week's National Space Symposium, Booth 408. The company's powerful WebIC™ Thin Client product, integrated with products from the Integral Systems family of companies, including EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) from Integral Systems, Compass from Newpoint Technologies, SigMon from SAT Corporation and software and equipment from RT Logic. The integrated solution gives Space Operators real-time status of Blue Force space and ground support assets, Cyber, Space Environment, Site Weather, AFSCN and other relevant sources. Users also have the capability to access archive data from a platform-independent Web client. Integral Systems WebIC easily integrates external SSA data sources, such as Grey Force assets that carry 80 percent of military SATCOM. Further, SATOPS Enterprise provides seamless context-sensitive visualization and conjunction analysis leveraging AGI's Satellite Toolkit (STK).
Integral Systems Enterprise Architecture
Integral Systems SATOPS Enterprise Architecture features a blended approach that supports both Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to offer the greatest flexibility for different projects. Features of SATOPS Enterprise include:
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Flexibility. Supports system architectures that require full-scale enterprise capabilities to integrate into new and existing systems.
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Interoperability. Enables further interoperability with current and future products by the use of public, documented product interfaces.
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Support for Legacy Systems. Allows for rapid integration of virtually any existing software with the capabilities that it currently provides. Once a bridge is developed, the WebIC Thin Client provides easy visualization of data via a Java standards-based Portal.
- Support for SOA Requirements. SATOPS Enterprise Architecture is compatible with a variety of modern service-oriented standards: SOAP messages, HTTP/S, WSDL, and a variety of WS- standards to allow efficient interoperability of services by providing mechanisms that allow separately-developed services to call each other from different languages and platforms.
The Integral Systems family of companies will be exhibiting at the 2010 National Space Symposium, booth 408.
About Integral Systems
Integral Systems, Inc., of Columbia, MD, applies more than 25 years experience to provide integrated technology solutions for satellite communications-interfaced systems. Customers have relied on the Integral Systems family of companies (Integral Systems, Inc., Integral Systems Europe, Lumistar, Inc., Newpoint Technologies, Inc., RT Logic, and SAT Corporation) to deliver on time and on budget for more than 250 satellite missions. Our dedication to customer service has solidified long-term relationships with the U.S. Air Force, NASA, NOAA, and nearly every satellite operator in the world. Integral Systems was named the Region III Prime Contractor of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2009. For more information, visit www.integ.com.