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The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Selected InetSoft’s BI Tool to Analyze and Report on Massive Amounts of Data
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Marine & Shipping
Use Cases
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSFMC) was faced with the challenge of monitoring fish migrations through the Federal Columbia River Power System to provide valuable research information for the restoration of declining salmon and steelhead populations. The monitoring process involved recording large volumes of data which were automatically uploaded to the PTAGIS database every three hours. The challenge was how PSMFC reports were to be accessed, delivered and used across their disparate user base. Users access PTAGIS from remote locations and a wide variety of platforms including Windows PC, Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, Linux and others. The PSMFC needed a flexible, extensible, and easy-to-use solution.
About The Customer
The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSFMC) is an organization formed by Congress more than 50 years ago with the primary goal to promote and support policies and actions to conserve, develop, and manage fishery resources in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. They accomplish this through coordinating research activities, monitoring fishing activities, and facilitating a wide variety of projects, working to collect data and maintain databases on salmon, steelhead and other marine fish for fishery managers and the fishing industry. The PIT Tag Information System (PTAGIS) project is funded by the electrical rate payers in the Pacific Northwest, as part of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Fish and Wildlife Program. In this system, a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tag is injected into each fish with the latest in Radio Frequency Identification technology. A PIT-tagged fish is uniquely identified and then monitored throughout its entire lifecycle as it migrates to and from the Pacific Ocean back to its original spawning grounds.
The Solution
The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission selected InetSoft’s Style Report™ Enterprise Edition software for its flexibility, extensibility, and ease-of-use. The software's 100% Java and open-standards platform easily interfaced with the broad range of platforms used by the Commission and provided the user-friendly web-based interface needed for rapid report development. PTAGIS uses an Open Source Ingres enterprise database which supports Java connectivity; making integration with InetSoft’s Java-based BI software seamless. Because of Style Report’s zero-client, web-based interface, the solution did not require any additional software to be loaded on users’ computers. The ad-hoc User Interface is also particularly easy to use, and allows users to quickly and easily build and customize queries and send reports from any browser.
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