A significant Federal Government agency with core responsibility for managing Australian airspace and Airport safety has over thirty legacy databases some as old as 25 years that contain critical geography, airspace, and aeronautical assets data within the airspace including radar, navigation aids,
aircraft information and
flight sector data..
 
The existing Aeronautical Data Management System has not kept pace with advances and developments in Aeronautical Information Management technology presenting the challenge to the organisation of sourcing, developing and implementing an enterprise data warehousing solution while maintaining operations and meeting the stringent requirements of local regulators and the American FAA.
The project has high visibility at executive levels of the organisation and government and is not simply an IT upgrade initiative but touches all areas of a 3000 plus employee organisation and external entities including airlines and regulators requiring multiple stakeholder engagement and management.

Managing End to End Critical and Strategic ICT Portfolio Change

How we perform to win
The ensuring project, valued at $22m, is phased over a three year period with the first phase centred on procuring an externally provided solution through a competitive tendering process. The organisation has opted for an enterprise data warehousing solution including hardware, software, software licensing, maintenance and support provided by an overseas external vendor in partnership with local suppliers and the organisation.
4impact has been engaged to manage the end to end delivery of the solution over the next two years and will lead the delivery of the solution on behalf of the organisation by working with the vendor and local suppliers who will provide design expertise, Infrastructure Hardware and Oracle Software. As part of delivery 4impact will also work with the organisation, the vendor and their partners to customise the off the shelf solution procured to deliver an Aeronautical Data Management System by May 2012.
A series of workshops with key project stakeholders drawn from the business and external to the organisation have been scheduled as part of the project planning phase to develop the risk management plan, communications strategy and plans, quality and testing plan and merging the vendor’s project schedule with the organisations Master Project Schedule.
A key part of the project will be the design phase over a three month period to work with the vendor, their partners and the organisation to design the solution which includes how the build, test, setup and install, data conversion and transition phases will be managed.
The project is also responsible for development and delivery of end user training, re-engineering of affected business processes and the subsequent organisational change management.
Our commitment to deliver, 4impact will ensure:
·        The benefits to the organisation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse:
·        Satisfying the requirements of regulatory authorities
·        Vastly increased service delivery efficiency and staffing flexibility
·        Reduced manual intervention for data input
·        Total system support by the vendor including software updates,
platform maintenance and Service Desk
·        Advanced disaster recovery capacity
·        Greater opportunities for regional collaboration with Pacific and
Asian neighbours.