SYNERGETICS TO PROVIDE LOGISTCS DATA USING MOBILE DATABASE.

Synergetics Incorporated, a Fort Collins, Colorado based IT services company was awarded the Federal Logistics Data (FED LOG) contract by the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) valued at over $9 million. This contract, issued by the Document Automation and Production Service (DAPS) is for the publication and dissemination of FED LOG on portable media.

Rajiv Mehta, president and CEO of Synergetics Incorporated announced, "We are honored to have the opportunity to support DLIS and their mission in Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain management using our Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) (http://eccma.org/) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards-based solution."

Synergetics' Integrated Mobile Database (IMD) suite is the first and only ECCMA-ISO 8000-110 certified product. Synergetics will provide its ECCMA and ISO certified IMD technology suite to sustain the current DLIS portable media product (FED LOG) and to develop an upgraded, adaptive and more capable method to deliver information via portable media for use in U.S. Military and other Government logistics operations and supply chain management.

The DLIS mission is to provide interoperable, integrated, quality logistics data and enterprise IT solutions for joint warfighters, the Military Services, the Defense Department, other Federal agencies and international partners in order to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the DOD supply chain. FED LOG is a catalog of logistics data used by DLIS customers. FED LOG on portable media is the primary product produced and delivered by DLIS.

DLIS is faced with providing logistical data to the warfighter in environments in which access to telecommunications and connectivity can be very limited or nonexistent. In these environments, mobile media-based products containing databases and data views, combined with robust access tools, play an essential role in assuring operational success. FED LOG is distributed to users worldwide via CD-ROM or DVD format.

Data quality continues to be an important initiative at DLIS. By adopting standards such as ISO 8000-110 and ISO 22745 (a standard that defines open technical dictionaries), DLIS will maintain data quality by specifying the data it needs and obtaining it directly from manufacturers in a standard usable format.

Synergetics' IMD solution solves problems with managing and distributing data in technology constrained environments such as limited, intermittent, and low bandwidth Internet access. This is a frequent technology constraint for national and global organizations. Storing and accessing logistics data, parts catalogs, or inventory data from portable media and devices is a challenge for organizations with end-users that are constrained to small footprint media solutions.

The ECCMA mission is to develop, maintain and promote the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) to provide unambiguous labeling standards that are essential for data exchange between DOD/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agencies and commercial vendors.

Synergetics' IMD suite provides data compression, data storage, data production and retrieval tools to produce ECCMA and ISO certified portable media versions of the original data. IMD's logistic data compression and query performance is unequalled in the marketplace.

Synergetics' certified IMD solution will be used by DLIS and is available to other government agencies and commercial vendors facing similar challenges in distributing mission critical data via portable media and devices.

Synergetics(R) Incorporated, is a certified SBA 8(a) technology services company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Synergetics' expertise provides information technology solutions to Government (Federal, State and Local) and Fortune 500/1000 organizations.

For more information, visit http://www.synergetics.com or call 970/498-9775.