Legacy Systems Retirement
Case Study - Retiring the U.S. Air Force's ABIDES system
Challenge
Built on 1970s technology the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System (ABIDES) was laid to rest in 2021. The Air Force attempted this transformation 3 times previously in the past 20 years!
Solution
After 49 years of trying to retire/replace the Air Force’s ABIDES system, a program using 1970s mainframe applications, Definitive Logic was able to successfully sunset this legacy database on 31 Dec 2021. The new Program & Budget Enterprise System (PBES) went live January 2022 and now vastly improves and automates the building of the Department of Air Force’s $200B+ annual Presidents Budget submission.
Impact
The new PBES solution is built on a modern Oracle Hyperion framework integrating enterprise financial and operational planning processes and Oracle OBIEE’s business intelligence tools to improve mission predictability. The Air Force, for the first time ever, is now able to integrate and automate its long-range 30 year resource allocation plan (RAP) and near term FYDP Program Objective Memorandum (POM) with positive impacts to aircraft inventory, flying hours and manpower.