Item_Master_Market_Survey_final_3Jun14.docx

AIR FORCE ITEM MASTER LOGISTICS CAPABILITY INITIATIVE

Market Survey Company Information Vendor Provider:

CAGE Code:

Product Name/Version #:

NAICS:

Product Function:

Employee Size:

Available Contract Vehicles:

Primary Sector (s):

Number of Customers in Aerospace & Defense:

Number of total users:

Functionality Survey - Please use the elaboration space at the end of this form to expand on any answers from the “Functionality Survey” below, referencing the appropriate question number Scalability & Platform (S&P)

1. S&P - How many concurrent users is the product scaleable to support?

2. S&P - This product has been deployed on a DoD infrastructure

3. S&P - This product has been deployed on a commercial infrastructure

4. S&P - This product integrates with the following COTS products (Choose all that apply)

· Oracle eBS

· Oracle cMRO

· Oracle database

· IBM Maximo

· IFS Click-Commerce

· SAP EAM

· Servigistics

· iBASEt Solumina

· PTC

· Microsoft SharePoint

· Microsoft SQL Server

· Team Center

Please identify other COTS products that are not listed.

5. S&P - Multiple locations can be controlled and managed as a federated solution

6. S&P - This product has been deployed on the following DoD Infrastructure types (Choose all that apply):

· DISA Services

· MIL-Cloud

· Joint Information Environment (JIE)

· Combined Information Environment (CIE)

· GCSS-AF

· Any Air Force Data Center or Airbase network

· Any DoD Agency Data Center or base

· Stand-alone LAN

· Stand-alone WAN

Item Master Functionality

User Interface (UI)

7. UI – Available Clients (Choose all that apply)

8. UI - Does the solution maintain, manage, govern externally created content objects, e.g. specification sheets and other unstructured objects and maintain lineage, authority, business rules over the content?

9. UI –Provides user-configurable workbench item management capabilities?

10. UI – Available Search options (Choose all that apply)

Item Management (IM)

11. IM – Multiple items can be stored, configuration controlled, and relationally add to toolkit

12. IM - What is a limit to the number of product indentures that can be a added

13. IM – Provides Master Identification Management (Capability to manage unique identifiers and aliases for a single items)

14. IM - Explain how product provides Revision and Version control of Item and BOM management (e.g. parts, items, people, organizations).

15. IM – How does the application manage interchangeable and substitutable items to support procurement sourcing and associate vendor to item types by vendor code?

16. IM - Capability to add new item types (for example, manage customer, vendor, human resources)?

17. IM – To what extent, does the product allow for definition of item standard constructs, types of items and item actions within an enterprise?

18. IM – How does the product allow for creation, management and propagation of item master content and structures?

19. IM – Describe the product’s metadata structure for item identification, (i.e. number of characters, alphanumeric, etc.)?

20. IM – How does the product provide for an integrated workflow capability to facilitate item creation and change requests?

Structure Management (SM)

21. SM – Can the product provide management of hierarchical Bills of Materiel (BOMs), Variant Configurations, Options, Alternates, and Substitutes?

22. SM – What are the out of box attributes for an item record? Please provide examples.

23. SM – Describe how the product configures and displays the item product structure and associated item types.

Change Management (CM)

24. CM – Components (Choose all that apply)

Multi-Structure Management

25. Multi-Structure – Provides capability to stage items and product structures prior to release?

26. Multi-Structure – Provides association of multiple item/product structures?

Content Management (CMM)

27. CMM - Solution needs to govern and manage distribution of externally generated objects to be shared, synchronized with intergration and searchable capabilities.

28. CMM - What kind of native reporting and forms development capabilities are available out-of-the-box? How are new reports created? What built-in metrics reporting tools are used?

29. CMM – Provides Element-Level Validation and Composition supporting forms development

Security, Integration and Architecture

Security

30. Security – Provides basic Item Master functionality (Choose all that apply)

31. Security – What are the log-in methods supported by the application?

32. Security - Does it support Smart Card (PKI) or SAML-token based authentication and basic (user id/password) authentication?

33. Security – Available Levels (Choose all that apply)

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

34. EAI - Explain how product has capability to integrate multiple legacy authoritative data sources, construct and manage master data structures and views to support different functional communities.

35. EAI - Explain how product has flexibility to interact with multiple legacy systems providing required enterprise capabilities while incrementally transitioning to single, authoritative data source.

36. EAI - Does the application support web services based interfaces?

37. EAI - Can it expose and consume web services out-of-the-box?

Architecture and Platform Capabilities

38. Arch - What are the different deployment architecture supported by the application?

a. Can it be hosted in a secure cloud environment with virtualized servers?

b. What are the supported platforms e.g. RHEL, Windows and other Unix platforms?

c. For the web interface – what browsers are supported?

d. Do you currently have any installation in DISA or have you gone through DISA’s Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process?

e. Has the application received ATO in a FISMA compliant environment

39. Arch - What is a typical technical architecture? High Availability clusters or Non-Availability?

40. Arch - What ports and protocols are used internally and externally? Are they configurable?

41. Arch - Please provide any performance benchmarks (e.g. latency, etc.) for the application?

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