The Business Case for CAP
Pete O’Dell
Founder/Director
Swan Island Networks
[email protected]
202-460-9207
Speaker Introduction
• Founder Swan Island Networks – early CAP adopter
(www.swanisland.net)
• TIES and Cybero – SAAS offerings – CAP in the Cloud
• Technical and business background
• Government and commercial, large and small
companies
• Book(s): Silver Bullets: How interoperable data will
revolutionize information sharing and transparency.
Future of interoperability in development contributors wanted for next version (Sept 2013)
• www.advantagefactory.com, www.maplarge.com,
www.detectachem.com, www.mystateusa.com
“Today, [we] are functionally linked
together in a vast organic
system…The earth [is] not only
becoming covered by myriads of
grains of thought, but becoming
enclosed in a single thinking
envelope.” --Teilhard de Chardin, 1925
Discussion
• Case for standards in a changing world
• Business reasons for deploying/promoting CAP
• Cost of an avoidable incident
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Money
Lives
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Reputation and liability
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Cost to deployment
Speed to deployment
Future Development
Other business case elements
Future Directions – changes underway
• Ubiquitous connections
• Multiple devices
• Sensors/Internet of
things
• Complex risks
• Real time reactions
• Shrinking world
• Cloud computing
• Cyber-threats
• People can’t scale (right
now)
• Budgets under pressure
• Government struggling
• Legacy overhang
• IT walls being scaled –
Bring your own device
• Big data – trillions/txns
Intertwined worldwide issues
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Energy
Food/water
Health/disease
Global warming
Pollution
Languages
Trade blocks
Intellectual property
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Terrorism/security
Education
Population growth
Aging populations
Religion
Political
Standards
Paradoxes abound
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Internet of Things – automatic triggers
Long life batteries, low power networks
More data – billions of transactions
More sharing – necessity despite policy
problems
• Cross organizational sharing
• Gov to Gov
• Consortiums of private enterprises
• Public/Private partnerships
Standards have made civilization possible
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Weights and measures
Railroads – track and time zones
Interchangeable parts
Shipping containers
Uniform Commercial Codes
Internet – TCP/IP
HTML and XML – today’s WWW
All in all – a well traveled road
Organizational Elements to consider
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Return on Investment: Time and dollars
Risk Reduction:
Capital investment:
Operations and maintenance:
Doing more with less
Time to market/deployment:
Business Continuity:
Total Cost of Ownership:
Going it alone - the high cost of
custom solutions
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Money and time to create new approach
Willing to maintain and continue to develop
Willing to re-invent many elements
Limited interoperability
High risk of failure
• Bottom line: Custom furniture is great if you can
afford it, but this is a very painful way to create
technology solutions in the 21st Century!
CAP – key value points
Interoperable
Fast time to
deploy
International
Compatible
CAP
Flexible
Critical
Mass
Future Dev
Path
Embedded
in COTS
Much more than meteorological..
360 Degree Risk Picture
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GPS tracked people
GPS tracked equipment
Social media monitoring
RSS to CAP
Bio sensors
Environment sensors
Explosive test results
Video surveillance alerts
CAP universe of support
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Governments
Non Government organizations
Standards bodies
Private services companies
Software developers/COTS
Equipment manufacturers
Forward momentum worldwide
Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)
• Solutions:
– TIES and Cybero – situational awareness/cyber
– Vigilance (Pinkerton) – commercial security/intel
– MystateUSA – mass alerting
– Fusion Core – intelligence information fusion
– Previstar – incident management
• Premium Feeds:
– Global Incident Map
– NC4
Recap – some key points
• CAP is a well developed standard
• The world is adopting CAP for many uses
• There are people working (free to you) to
make CAP better as time passes
• There are commercial products you can utilize
to speed delivery of capabilities
• Overall cost of a standard solution is much
lower and more reliable than a custom effort