DPointe™

Overview

SAIC’s DPointe™ software allows decision makers to take a multi-dimensional look at their processes and portfolios. Analysis conducted by the DPointe software suite can provide higher confidence in decisions made regarding resourcing and mission improvements.

Applications

Mission performance:

• Business process performance
• Resource allocation assessment
• Data relationship visualization

Features

The DPointe software provides a Monte Carlo-based analytic engine for assessing mission/business process performance and uses non-linear regression techniques to generate surface tension plots to display resource allocation contributions. The multi-dimensional display environment allows the user to “see” the data and relationships to mission/business process performance.

Benefits

• Determine the critical path toward achieving mission success
• Pinpoint important linkage points in a process, emphasizing bottlenecks that may be decreasing performance
• Quickly identify and display results
• Highlight potential process improvements to increase performance
• Design rigorous experiments for resourcing decisions
• Identify the point of diminishing returns based on a program’s contribution to overall mission effectiveness
• Evaluate tradeoffs and investment strategies for large portfolios
• Map capabilities to people to the tasks they complete
• Map contributing factors to available budget
• Understand how resourcing decisions may create spiraling effects
• Synthesize information into knowledge by seeing the relationships between processes, programs and personnel