Powerpoint Slides for the New Open Source Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD) Demo - 2011 ACE/NETC Conference in Denver (June 11, 2011)

1. The New Open Source LeadershipManagement Dashboard (LMD) Joe Barbano National Institute of Food & Agriculture

2. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) About Us – Our Mission IT Challenges - Reporting IT Goals – Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD)

3. NIFA - About Us – Our Mission NIFA's unique mission is to advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities by supporting research, education, and extension programs in the Land-Grant University System and other partner organizations. NIFA doesn't perform actual research, education, and extension but rather helps fund it at the state and local level and provides program leadership in these areas.

4. IT Challenges - Reporting How do we organize voluminous text based agricultural reports so that NIFA staff and NIFA partners can retrieve valuable information?

5. IT Goals – LMD Provide a tool allowing agricultural scientists (NPLs) and NIFA partners to efficiently perform analysis comparing outcomes and impacts across functions, knowledge areas, geographies, budget line items, and other categories while complying with transparency and accountability requirements.

8. A NIFA management tool that manages large volumes of data from grantees

10. NPL LMD pilot/prototype started November 2006 utilizing 3 NPL’s to provide requirements.

11. NPL LMD launched at NIFA in July 2007.

12. Subsequent releases made in January and June, 2008, and March, 2009 – each release adding more features and new requirements.

14. Current Research Information System (CRIS)

15. AREERA State Plan of Work (POW) Information System

16. Cooperative Research, Education, and Extension Management System (C-REEMS)

17. National Information Management and Support System (Multi State Hatch Projects)

19. Dashboard allows NIFA scientists to compare budget to program expenditures.

21. Scalable open source platform will enable users to generate customized reports faster and provide an interface that is easier to understand

22. We have plans to continue to add functionality and enhancements to the Dashboard approximately every 6-9 months.Where We Are Going?

23. Oracle Portal Page Architecture

24. Ruby On Rails Page Architecture

25. Old Platform Vs New Platform?

26. Menu-Module Changes for the New LMD

27. New Query Process

28. Barquin LMD Team Contact Info Owen Dall, Chief Systems Architect 410-991-0811 odall@barquin.com Ishita Yameen, Program Lead 202-642-1997 iyameen@barquin.com Thanks to Our Dedicated LMD Development Team: Edmund Vergel de Dios – Jack Compton – Michelle Mascarenhas Chris Woody – Anthony Prashanth – Tom Locke – Gustav Paul – Angus Miller

29. How Can I Get Access? Go to http://portal.nifa.usda.gov/

30. Now On To The Demo!

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37. Examples Ruby – On Rails Applications