Fusion Framework and Fusion Core Solution

September 11, 2001, fundamentally changed the threat and response environment in America. Today, to protect our homeland and to counter potential threats and criminal activity, government agencies need to take proactive action to prepare for and respond to crises. To this end, secure and trusted information-gathering, assessment, and sharing are critical across all levels of government and the private sector. Information fusion centers have become the generally accepted solution, enhancing awareness, prevention, preparation, and response. Microsoft Fusion Framework is an integrated, holistic technology architecture for fusion centers, which can help you to enhance information-sharing and security by automating collection, intake, workflow management, collaborative analysis, data visualization, dissemination, auditing, and capture of business-performance metrics.


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As a quick deployment solution built upon Microsoft Fusion Framework, Microsoft and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) have jointly developed Fusion Core Solution, an easy-to-use, quick-to-configure solution that combines the robust capabilities of the ESRI ArcGIS Advanced Enterprise server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution offers:

Data management and visualization capabilities, including Suspicious Activity Reporting.
Pre-loaded and customizable forms for processing, assigning, and satisfying many different types of intelligence and information service requests.
Tools to search across multiple data sources, including file shares, Web sites, and databases.
Powerful and extendable geospatial analysis capabilities.
Integrated capabilities that enable analyst and customer collaboration by using Web sites, blogs, and wikis.
Easily configured, secure connections to external data sources and supported connectivity to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Shared Space, eGuardian, and the Automated Critical Asset Management System (ACAMS).
Out-of-the-box functionality that can be integrated with existing authentication and auditing systems to enhance security.
Powerful management reporting capabilities.

With Microsoft Fusion Framework and Fusion Core Solution, agencies can seamlessly move information from intake to analysis to dissemination in a multiple-agency, multilevel environment, while utilizing existing assets and integrating with domain-specific applications. This gives agencies the ability to take proactive action to prepare for and respond to crises and to counter potential threats and criminal activities.

The partners listed below can help you implement a Fusion Framework solution.


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Advantage Factory, Inc. is a professional services consulting firm that has been involved with the Microsoft Fusion Framework reference framework since its inception. The company provided the technical leads and managed development for the original Fusion Framework Proof of Concept, using the architecture provided by Microsoft. Currently, Advantage Factory is working with Microsoft and ESRI to develop the ESRI Fusion Framework appliance, a baseline IT architecture for fusion centers, which will provide users with advanced collaboration and geospatial intelligence capabilities. Contact Advantage Factory at 360-707-5750.

ESRI leads the global software industry in geographic information system (GIS) technology with annual sales of more than $660 million. Enterprise GIS systems supply the platform, framework, and rich set of tools providing fusion center analysts with the ability to collect, integrate, analyze, and disseminate large volumes of data into relevant, meaningful, and actionable information/intelligence, improving situational awareness and decisionmaking.

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