DFO PacFish

PacFish integrated 150 database and enables cross-Fishery query, reporting and analysis of Catch and Licensing data, from one authoritative system.

Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, Pacific Region, Victoria, Nanaimo and Vancouver B.C.

Client Profile

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is responsible for policies and programs in support of Canada’s economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters.

The Challenge

The PacFish Project required architecture, design and implementation, for the integration of 150 Catch Management (and related) Databases, across 30 different Fisheries (business units) in the Pacific Region.

Highlights

In the first phase T4Bi lead DFO through an Enterprise Architecture phase and provided the following deliverables; Business Process, Data Architecture, a target vision mapped against existing systems. The second phase required business and systems analysis to identify options which would meet the businesses goals of an integrated repository for cross-Fishery reporting, decision making and for master data management.

In the implementation phase T4Bi worked with subject matter experts to define numerous data standards critical to the business, and implement these in a central Reference Data Repository (RefData). This was complimented with a T4Bi delivered Portal for data catalogue and metadata documentation (Gateway) and an operational data store (ODS) to integrate operational data, reference data and master data from all Fishery Catch and Licensing systems.  PacFish enables cross-Fishery query, reporting and analysis of Catch and Licensing data, from one authoritative system (Official Catch).

Highlights of the solution are:

  • An integrated rich client (Ajax) application to support the business processes,
  • A RESTful SOA Application Architecture (implemented with .NET Services)
  • OData data standard http://www.odata.org/
  • An integrated adhoc multi-dimensional reporting capability,
  • ESRI ArcSDE spatial data warehouse accessed via OGC services

Technologies Used

  • Oracle Developer Data Modeler
  • Oracle Application Express (Apex 3, 4)
  • Oracle 10g/11g RDBMS
  • .NET 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
  • Sencha Ext.JS (2, 3)
  • ESRI ArcSDE spatial database with OGC services
  • ESRI ArcSDE 10
  • DevX Reports
  • Selenium Testing Suite
  • VMWare

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