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KEYSTONE
is a full-featured application for personnel recruiting
and retention that enables better servicing of
applicants through real-time visibility of
opportunities, reduced processing time, and increased
responsiveness to policy.
KEYSTONE provides an integrated view of
information and activities required to support
recruiting and retention business processes, presents
applicants only with opportunities for which they are
qualified, allows implementation of policy changes
without custom programming, and through its robust
real-time and datawarehouse reporting capabilities,
enables better communication and management among all
levels of the organization.
While currently focused on Army recruiting and
retention, KEYSTONE can be used to support personnel
management for other military and government
organizations, helping reduce costs and meet overall recruiting
and retention goals.
Depend
on proven technology and over thirty years of personnel
management experience by making KEYSTONE the cornerstone
of your enterprise mission critical personnel management
activities.
The
US Army has a tremendously demanding recruiting and retention mission
supporting a worldwide user community of approximately 3,000 users. In
the past, these users were relying on a central database housed in
Washington, DC that had to arbitrarily limit the number of simultaneous
users on the high-end mainframe platform. . To modernize their approach
to this critical function, the Army sought an extremely robust,
automated system capable of supporting an unlimited number of users. SA
undertook a series of challenging migration projects that moved from
mainframe to three-tiered, client/server environments. The goal was to
create a phased approach to an open, scaleable system without
disrupting operations and reusing/modifying legacy system software
wherever it was cost-effective. This new environment not only had to
support an unlimited number of simultaneous users, but also needed to
include state-of-the-art interfaces to reduce input errors, speed
transaction times, and reduce training time for new users.
Solution: Using open technologies and integrating multiple components,
SA modernized the two major software subsystems of the KEYSTONE
mainframe system that focused on recruiting and retention. SA took two
very distinct approaches to the migration of these two complex systems,
primarily due to their different ages. The recruiting subsystem
required "ground up" reengineering beginning with function definition,
object oriented analysis, and system design. The retention subsystem
(having been redesigned four years earlier using object-oriented
techniques) benefited from an approach that reused some of the existing
ADA software modified for platform-specific and database changes.
A primary goal of this solution was to minimize any interruption
of operations in these mission-critical systems.
Results: SA's custom approach of preserving, modifying, and reusing
legacy system components where feasible saved our client both time and
money. The retention subsystem has been successfully implemented
worldwide with feedback that is overwhelmingly positive. The last
critical milestone in the revamping of the 20-year-plus
legacy KEYSTONE system was the release of the completely reengineered
recruiting subsystem, which has included user involvement throughout
and has received positive response concerning its ease of use and
transparency at every stage of the development process. A software
release to comply with Year 2000 concerns was also
executed by SA on time, under budget, and without disruption to
KEYSTONE users. Through continual upgrades, SA has ensured that the
Army's worldwide Keystone system remains state-of-the-art.
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