Ontology’s OSS/CAD application to provide key service assurance for MoD’s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure programme

Nice, France, May 6th, 2009 – Today at Management World 2009 conference, Ontology Systems, the company behind the ground breaking OSS/CAD service management application, announce that international defence and security technology company QinetiQ has selected OSS/CAD to provide key service assurance functionality for the UK Ministry of Defence‘s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) programme, for which QinetiQ is the lead services provider.

OSS/CAD will be integrated into the overall ESII programme being delivered to the MoD to create a service assurance environment in which key user services can be managed across a federated heterogeneous policy-driven network of
The ESII programme seeks to provide the UK MoD with a flexible method of obtaining cost-effective and timely research into the key issues relating to delivery of the Global Information Infrastructure. . The overall multi-million pound programme delivers research, analysis and experimentation on behalf of the MoD to mature solution concepts that technically derisk the construction of a managed system for a group of complex networks that is both resilient and capable of resisting network attack.

Martin Huddleston, QinetiQ’s Management Systems Technical Leader for the ESII programme commented: ”OSS/CAD’s unique use of semantic technology and ontologies will provide a high degree of agility and flexibility in bringing together data from a variety of heterogeneous network and operational support systems to form a virtual unified service model of the operational environment. In addition to the core application and software configuration capabilities Ontology Systems provides, being UK based was another important element in their selection.”

Ontology Systems’ CEO, Benedict Enweani added: “We are pleased to be able to bring the benefits of OSS/CAD to QinetiQ and MoD in such a challenging deployment environment.  OSS/CAD’s capability to rapidly align multiple heterogeneous systems will deliver service management benefits that include a lower cost of ownership, the highest level of agility and the ability to embrace ongoing changes in the overall systems..”

The engagement is progressing to schedule with the service management capability ready for demonstration to the MoD in June 2009.
networks.  This will provide a service management capability to monitor and manage the user experience, and actively validate the application of new network policies across wideband mobile communications and infrastructure.