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system for economic development is architected to work with internal applications built and maintained by EnterpriseKC as well as external applications built and operated by third party partners.
Internal Applications
EnterpriseKC has developed and deployed several strategic applications in support of the Pillar strategies. These include: The DataSphere – an aggregated information warehouse and analytics platform to track regional assets and help policy makers make more informed decisions. It tracks all primary and secondary enterprises and businesses across Kansas and Western Missouri by cluster. It tracks all academic assets across the region, including program offerings by cluster and graduation rates, and provides a near real time view of workforce demand by cluster and by role. The TalentSphere – a platform to create customized talent supply chains to accelerate connections between talent and demand for high-impact, high-opportunity jobs – cluster by cluster. The TalentSphere was architected to look at candidates from multiple dimensions. In addition to being well-qualified, is the candidate well-suited for the role and is the candidate well-potentialed? So, the TalentSphere includes a psychometrically valid tool to determine candidate fit and potential for a given role. The Heartland Cyber Range – a hands-on learning and simulation environment for real-world, experiential training. The platform allows users to simulate real-world networks and other IT systems to build and test skills against the latest threats without risk. Users work with the same tools used by professionals in live network infrastructure environments and gain experience with techniques required for high- demand jobs. Built on a secure, extensible architecture, the Range was designed to support clusters beyond cybersecurity; the learning management system and simulation engine can just as easily deliver content and lesson plans for programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and robotics in the Advanced Manufacturing cluster or MRI training in the Digital Health and Healthcare cluster. The IdeaSphere – an innovation repository that consolidates IP disclosures from regional R1 and R2 universities, federal labs, and select private research organizations. The platform is an extension of the DataSphere and is designed as a public-facing interface to provide a consolidated view of regional innovation and to speed licensing and commercialization.
Ora Nexum – an edge-based high performance, highly secure private cloud network that hosts the DataSphere, TalentSphere, Heartland Cyber Range, and IdeaSphere. Ora Nexum ensures that anyone accessing EKC’s applications will have the same user experience in terms of speed, availability, and security regardless of where they reside geographically.
External Applications
In any well-designed computer operating system, third-party applications extend the system’s reach, translate core capabilities into specialized outcomes, and bring value to diverse user groups. In EnterpriseKC’s operating system for economic development, our partners are these mission-critical applications. Each has a unique function in the economic development ecosystem. EnterpriseKC’s operating system for economic development does not compete with or replicate these efforts— it enhances them, providing a stable, data-rich, interoperable environment in which they can perform at peak effectiveness. Specifically, the OS provides: • Strategic alignment across clusters and Pillars ensuring each partner application operates with common goals, definitions, and metrics, avoiding duplication and fragmentation.
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