BrightPlanet’s experience with structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, with open standards and interoperability, and with large-scale deployments with a variety of objectives and system integrators make it a perfect partner for architecture and design services. Architectural design, agile programming, and incorporation of the best design tools, patterns and standards means quicker implementation at lower cost and with lower risk.  BrightPlanet has the track record and references to deliver.

We also have an ingrained understanding of interfaces and efficient development. We embrace architecture and design services because we recognize that it is within interaction and integration that innovation occurs. Our commitment to A & D services enhances this pillar to our company’s capabilities.

In a typical BrightPlanet installation, content, usually in large volumes, comes from a multitude of sources. Some attributes may be calculated or inferred during this ingest pipeline. Both the text and metadata are indexed and stored in a knowledge base of some sort. That knowledge base, in turn, is used to feed various analytic tools, which themselves may create new understandings – and, hence, attributes or metadata – about the content, which now needs to be added to the knowledge base. There may, in fact, be a number of such analytical and attribute creation loops. Finally, information in the knowledge base is used for a variety of reports, distributions or visualizations. A typical architecture for such integrated systems is:

Though typical for large-scale government efforts in what is called data federation, data fusion, or “connect the dots,” this general design also applies to the commercial sector where large volumes of disparate information and analysis need to be prepared for knowledge workers.

This general architectural design typically:  1) has large, more often huge, scales; 2) requires the ability to add new attributes or metadata without having to re-process the existing data in the system; and 3) is dominated by text-based content with the consequent need for full-text indexing and retrieval (which also applies to most metadata fields).  These demands imply the need for truly extensible data management systems at the core of the knowledge base or repository.

Of course, the specific engagement dictates actual architecture.

BrightPlanet prefers fixed-cost engagements for it’s A&D services where it assumes all delivery and performance risk. This win-win strategy caps customer and partner exposure and provides the incentives for BrightPlanet to deliver below cost with higher potential profitability.

The use of senior and efficient team members, and the proper alignment of rewards and incentives, is a corporate mindset of BrightPlanet geared to performance success and corporate learning today and into the future.