New Shared Data Assessment and Management Services
Oral Presentation
Prepared by N. Abousaeedi1, M. Hoff2, M. Johnson2
1 - CSC, 15000 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA, 20151, United States
2 - Analytical Services Branch, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 South Crystal Drive , Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Contact Information: [email protected]; 703-818-4233
ABSTRACT
EPA’s Analytical Services Branch (ASB) continues to grow the scope of analytical methods supported and the range of reports and documents produced by its data assessment and management tools. The updated tools provide greater flexibility in automated review of analytical data, speed of processing, and flexibility in reporting. Our data review and management tool (EXES & EDM) has provided ASB customers with estimated savings of 80% over previously manual data assessment/validation processes while providing broader access to analytical and project data. While EPA ASB customers have had the advantage of these data assessment and management tools for several years, the newly updated system efficiencies will allow EPA ASB to begin to make these tools available to other EPA Offices, Federal and State Agencies.
The goal of the EXES system is to provide an application to efficiently evaluate analytical data regardless of the underlying method and data reporting requirements. The system provides users with advanced customization capabilities to review, edit, and add evaluation parameters, tests, Method Quality Objectives (MQOs), and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) requirements. Test rules have been consolidated and shared across methods where applicable, and new method support is accomplished through user interfaces.
The updated features and capabilities provide all stakeholders with the following enhancements and new capabilities:
•Faster turnaround times for preliminary evaluations of Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD)
•Enhanced ”submit EDD” capabilities that offer a more intuitive User Interface (UI)
•Managed evaluation procedures to allow for a customized application of method requirements
•Tailored deliverable process flow to meet client-specific analytical evaluation needs
•Improved chemist review UI
•Better internal deliverable tracking UI
•Modular test rules for improved efficiency and faster roll out of new method support
The key architectural principals that CSC will incorporate into the new EXES are:
•Modern and simple
•Everything is (or can be) a component/service (i.e., easily extendable)
•Stateless (multiple EDDs can be processed at the same time)
Oral Presentation
Prepared by N. Abousaeedi1, M. Hoff2, M. Johnson2
1 - CSC, 15000 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA, 20151, United States
2 - Analytical Services Branch, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 South Crystal Drive , Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Contact Information: [email protected]; 703-818-4233
ABSTRACT
EPA’s Analytical Services Branch (ASB) continues to grow the scope of analytical methods supported and the range of reports and documents produced by its data assessment and management tools. The updated tools provide greater flexibility in automated review of analytical data, speed of processing, and flexibility in reporting. Our data review and management tool (EXES & EDM) has provided ASB customers with estimated savings of 80% over previously manual data assessment/validation processes while providing broader access to analytical and project data. While EPA ASB customers have had the advantage of these data assessment and management tools for several years, the newly updated system efficiencies will allow EPA ASB to begin to make these tools available to other EPA Offices, Federal and State Agencies.
The goal of the EXES system is to provide an application to efficiently evaluate analytical data regardless of the underlying method and data reporting requirements. The system provides users with advanced customization capabilities to review, edit, and add evaluation parameters, tests, Method Quality Objectives (MQOs), and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) requirements. Test rules have been consolidated and shared across methods where applicable, and new method support is accomplished through user interfaces.
The updated features and capabilities provide all stakeholders with the following enhancements and new capabilities:
•Faster turnaround times for preliminary evaluations of Electronic Data Deliverables (EDD)
•Enhanced ”submit EDD” capabilities that offer a more intuitive User Interface (UI)
•Managed evaluation procedures to allow for a customized application of method requirements
•Tailored deliverable process flow to meet client-specific analytical evaluation needs
•Improved chemist review UI
•Better internal deliverable tracking UI
•Modular test rules for improved efficiency and faster roll out of new method support
The key architectural principals that CSC will incorporate into the new EXES are:
•Modern and simple
•Everything is (or can be) a component/service (i.e., easily extendable)
•Stateless (multiple EDDs can be processed at the same time)
