At MetaAgility we are convinced that high levels of business agility can only be achieved by giving suitable technical support to the business change process. This is particularly important, when the change process takes place in an integrated environment characterised by peer-to-peer collaboration, where the responsibility for the integrated environment is distributed between peers with different specific responsibilities.

This conviction stems from the many years experience of working with application agility in the complex integrated environment at EFDA-JET. The EFDA-JET environment is characterised by a very high rate of domain and application change in combination with responsibility being distributed among specialised professionals.

The EFDA-JET application environment is configured from a large set of configuration data attributes (> 2,000,000) organised in a large number of configuration data nodes (> 200,000). The responsibility for managing this configuration space is distributed between 20 collaborating professionals.

The experimental nature of EFDA-JET imposes a very high rate of change; yet the configuration data set must always be kept consistent. Over the years the team at EFDA-JET has accumulated a considerable experience with what it takes to perform effective peer-to-peer collaboration in a complex ever changing integrated IT environment, where the different parts are under distributed responsibility.

At MetaAgility we believe that this experience of how to deal with change at EFDA-JET can be viewed as a pilot environment for peer-to-peer collaboration over systems under change in general. This would then, for example, be relevant for business process change during B2B collaboration. An other example would process change during process-to-process collaboration in organisations with flat management structure.

With this assumption in mind, we at MetaMgility have made a conceptual design for a distributed configuration system, whose main purpose is to support configuration change for complex interacting processes, whose management is characterised by distributed responsibility. The completion of the design and the implementation of a Configuration Data Server is the most important project currently being pursued by MetaAgility (see projects).

Component Architecture with Very Small Foot-print

MetaAgility has recently successfully completed the design and implementation of a generic OO-component framework with a very small foot-print. It is intended for application domains with specialised requirements. It can be made available for white box reuse by clients of MetaAgility. (See IEEE publication for more details.)

Instrument Interfacing via HTTP

At EFDA-JET staff from MetaAgilitiy has proposed and taken part in the development of a standard interface for Fusion instrumentation, the so called Black-Box interface based on HTTP. The ideas from this interface will most probably be carried forward and be further developed into one of the main plant control interfaces in the international ITER fusion experiment.

Detailed Interface Description