The ADAM SUITE is undergoing a technological evolution.

 

 

ADAM SUITE must follow the versions made available on its technical base to respond to security, performance, and obsolescence issues. This evolution of the technical components is expected to occur in the first half of 2024.

Our clients have their limitations and IT strategies, and our teams will work together to tackle them. Hence, our teams will be eager to provide guidance on the optimal deployment alternatives provided by these advancements. You can rely on us.

 

Updated components

 

What are these new features bringing?

Spring Boot will facilitate deployments and expedite the installation of new versions by utilizing these technologies and techniques. We will provide you with the following options:

  • Around Tomcat. We will provide two deployment solutions:
    1. “Standalone” with Spring Boot technology and the Tomcat server embedded in the application.
    2. “Expert” under Tomcat to retain customization possibilities.
  • With ANSIBLE version 2. We recommend implementing this scenario as it offers numerous advantages.
    We will furnish deployment scripts that customers can modify to their environments to enhance automation.

Not only that, but we will also do a webinar about these innovations in the coming months. This communication aims to prepare CIOs who oversee operating applications for these methods.

The ADAM team.

 

About ANSIBLE

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that is used for various IT tasks, including configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

Here’s a brief summary of Ansible’s key features and capabilities:

  1. Automation: Ansible allows you to automate repetitive and complex tasks, making it easier to manage and configure systems and applications.
  2. Agentless: Unlike some other automation tools, Ansible is agentless, meaning it doesn’t require any software to be installed on the target systems. It communicates with remote systems using SSH, making it lightweight and easy to set up.
  3. Declarative Language: Ansible uses a declarative language to define the desired state of systems. You specify what the end result should be, and Ansible takes care of figuring out how to get there.
  4. Playbooks: Automation tasks in Ansible are defined in YAML files called playbooks. Playbooks describe the tasks to be performed on specific hosts or groups of hosts.
  5. Idempotent: Ansible playbooks are idempotent, meaning they can be run multiple times without causing harm. If a task has already been completed and the system is in the desired state, Ansible won’t make any changes.
  6. Extensible: Ansible can be extended through modules, which are reusable units of code that perform specific tasks. A vast library of Ansible modules is available to support a wide range of operations.
  7. Inventory: Ansible uses an inventory file to keep track of the target hosts it manages. This file can be static or dynamic, allowing for flexible host groupings and organization.
  8. Role-Based: Ansible promotes the use of roles to organize and reuse sets of tasks. Roles can be shared and reused across different playbooks.
  9. Community and Ecosystem: Ansible has a large and active community, contributing to its extensive library of roles and modules. It also integrates well with other tools and systems.
  10. Security: Ansible employs secure communication via SSH, and it doesn’t require a centralized server for operation, making it a secure choice for automation.

Ansible is widely used by DevOps teams and system administrators to streamline and simplify infrastructure management and application deployment processes, making it a valuable tool for modern IT operations.

 

Analysis, control, search, discover the advanced features of ADAM Manager’s Search and Analytics module.

Documentation processing is alive and well! For many, that’ s not a surprise. Once a project is completed, many external parameters and factors can impact the documentation during the product life cycle. A change of parts, a tool, a reference number or a consumable, or a customer request or a new normative or regulatory constraint, are all reasons why documentation has to be modified and/or updated (RFU, reason for update).

The issue is therefore no longer whether or not the publication assets will be impacted over the 20 to 30 years of product use, but to visualize precisely and quickly where this will be the case.

THE IMPACT ANALYSIS

In most cases, modifications are in response to typical cases that have an impact on the publication assets, such as updating a tool, which may, depending on the case, have a knock-on effect on a set of procedures.


At best, a modification can be limited to updating the reference number of a tool. However, as mentioned above, changing a tool, even if it has the same purpose as the previous one, can have an impact on the way certain tasks are carried out.

Impact analysis meets the important need of quickly and easily identifying all the data modules that reference the tool in order to analyze them and, if necessary, assign them in batches to specialists who can update them.

This sort of impact can be extended to any change in support elements required to carry out tasks, be it an item, an ingredient, test equipment, a change of location, a warning message, a hazard, a sign, a name, etc.

In a system where configuration management is an important element, the Search and Analytics module allows you to search for specific configurations and provide a list of document objects corresponding to your configuration criteria.

MASS CHECKS

In the same way, the Search and Analytics module allows for mass checking of your publication assets. In the case of a modification affecting a greater or lesser number of documentary units (DMs), this ensures that all the documentary units that need to be modified have been modified, and that the entire revised content corresponds to the impact analysis.

It is also possible to perform a search to extract Data Modules with their RFUs (reasons for update) to ensure that none have been forgotten. In fact, an exhaustive list of all the RFUs per documentary unit can be obtained.

ADVANCED CONTEXTUAL SEARCHES

Another way to take advantage of this module, besides impact analysis, is to develop and perform contextual searches on the XML structure of the document, such as searching for a word in an ‘Abbreviation’ tag rather than searching for that word independently of its semantics.

The Search and Analytics module, a quiet revolution, increases the publication-asset search and analysis capabilities tenfold. It offers new perspectives to users and managers, who can now easily and quickly anticipate, quantify and check all and any updating work.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Search and Analytics module allows the user to perform advanced search queries on the XML structure of the Data Module. The aim here is to have a list of DMs available as a result.

For instance, the queries could be:
– What are the DMs that refer to such and such an identifier or such and such a tool?
– Which DMs contain at least one inline applicability??
– Which DMs specifically contain this text in the RFU?
– Others


These requests based on the XQUERY language can be created by an administrator with sufficient knowledge of that language, and are taken into account in real time as soon as they are made available on the server.

Users can then enter parameters before executing them, define how the results are displayed, and export them in CSV format. The user can access details of a DM with a simple click.

Naturally, a list of queries accompanies the Search and Analytics module by default. They cover a wide range of current topics including:
– Full text search on content bloc.
– Return all RFU element on all domain search.
– Return RFU element with a specific id
– Return Tool element with a specific toolRef
– Return Supply element with a specific text on name (e.g ‘grease’)
– Return DM with an issueType changed
– Search the impacted DM by a revised CIR fragment
– Search Abbreviation on content (ATA2300)
– Search techLabel on content
– Search reference to the document
– Return all inline applic element on all domain search

4D Concept offers services for tailor-made customer solutions and for training users.

ADAM Manager 5 breaks the sound barrier

 

This is an important period for the ADAM suite and especially the Manager module. Graphic redesign, improved performance, enhanced security, 4D Concept has not left anything out of its version 5 offering of the CSDB S1000D, the most powerful on the market.

 

Security

Security is a major issue in the management of sensitive projects. In an increasingly agile and flexible context for employees, who are now more than ever in home-offices with all the problems inherent in remote working, the heart of the matter is system intrusion resistance, which sends a shiver down the spines of managers and CIOs alike.

This is why 4D Concept has made it one of its main areas of focus, now and for the years to come, and particularly since the beginning of 2020 with the implementation of the ISO 27001 certification reference system dedicated to the security of information systems.

ADAM Manager 5 is already benefiting from these developments, with a first major technical upgrade linked to a version upgrade of the technological bricks used and the replacement of those considered outdated, guaranteeing greater stability and much better resistance to intrusion.

ADAM Manager 5 is already ready for these changes, with a first major technical upgrade linked to a version upgrade of the technological bricks used and the replacement of those considered outdated, guaranteeing greater stability and much better resistance to intrusion.

 

Performance

Powerful tools are prerequisites for successful project management. ADAM Manager 5 already outperforms the competition in this respect.

Nevertheless, we have thoroughly tested the solution through a major performance study which makes it possible for us to guarantee optimal response times and import times (-66%), check-ins (-25%), execution of requests known as “usual Admin”, which are very resource intensive (-78%) because they feed

the Dashboards, and PDF publications (-15%).

 

ADAM Manager 5 drives your projects 1.5 times faster than the previous version.

All tests were carried out on an AWS environment.

 

Ergonomics

You won’t recognize Manager!

The development teams have been working hard for a year to keep all the strengths of ADAM Manager while offering a new graphical interface that is simpler, more readable, easier, just better! Manager 4 users will not be lost, and the new users will appreciate a more modern and user-friendly GUI.

Finally, the overall ergonomics have been designed to integrate authoring skills into ADAM Manager in the very near future. Web authoring is coming…