Comprehensive Search Engine and Analytical Platform for Defense Data Integration
Case Studies
Challenges & Solutions
Technical Environment
Results
Executive Summary
Client
Government
Industry
Defence
Business Problem
The organization sought to build a solution that would provide a comprehensive search facility for personnel across PAN India, allowing them to retrieve information from naval websites through a search engine. Additionally, the solution aimed to offer a dashboard that delivered role-based reports to top-level officials, providing critical information for decision-making. The system was designed to periodically gather data from websites, data systems, and documents, translating it into a presentable format.
Outcome
- Centralized data access: Enabled seamless search across defense domain websites and databases from a single platform.
- Improved document handling: Implemented OCR to effectively read and process scanned documents.
- Enhanced decision-making: Created multiple analytical dashboards to support informed decision-making.
- Secure data management: Integrated with four Active Directories to ensure secure and controlled data access.
Challenges
- There was no single information desk available.
- The organization lacked expertise in extracting information from vast amounts of data.
- Queries had to be hardcoded, and there was no readily available solution to read scanned documents.
- The data was unstructured, and security measures for data access across different user groups were insufficient.
- Additionally, there were no analytical dashboards available to support decision-making.
Solutions
- Developed an application with advanced search engine capabilities.
- The solution was designed to crawl data from defense domain websites and databases, making it searchable on a single platform.
- Implemented optical character recognition (OCR) to read scanned documents.
- Built multiple analytical dashboards to facilitate decision-making.
- Additionally, the solution was integrated with four different Active Directories (ADs) to ensure secure data access through the search engine.
Technical Environment
- Base SAS VA, SAS text exploratory analytics, Java OCR
Results
- Many analytical dashboards.
- Automated junk data cleaning.
- Integration of data across modules.
- Single web for all information.
- Insights from unstructured data.