Welcome to SyDat™
Hawkgrove has identified an enhancement to the process of specifying and developing IT systems which significantly reduces project costs and risk. This is achieved by using our SyDat product.
SyDat allows system interfaces to be accurately specified in detail, incorporating the complete definition of message elements and, where appropriate, their values, in human readable form. This information can be used to stimulate and monitor one or more interfaces within a system.
The provision of human readable information makes the process of stimulating and
monitoring interfaces more intuitive and less prone to error, whilst the encapsulation
of the data in an electronic database provides the 
opportunity to provide a specification
that is both functional and definitive. Sharing of this database between system suppliers
can enable a common understanding between them.
This improvement to the current through life engineering process is achieved uniquely through SyDat
The use of common functional and definitive interface specifications across suppliers would eliminate the need for bespoke (often inaccurate) supplier manufactured simulators, thus significantly increasing the likelihood that components brought together at systems integration will communicate reliably (commonly they don’t!). Add to this the benefit of being able to generically monitor the activity between systems in human readable form in real time, with recording and playback capabilities, and you have modified the current IT engineering process in a simple but extremely effective way.
SyDat is a through life system interface design and integration tool that can be used from inception of a project into maintenance. SyDat supports the capture, design, testing and intelligent monitoring of system interfaces, providing off the shelf test equipment and intelligent system recorders that can be deployed to ensure that integration and ‘in service’ faults are analysed and corrected in the shortest possible time.
The SyDat project team at Hawkgrove understand the following risks with systems development and integration:
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English descriptions of communications and data interfaces are often ambiguous. Even minor ambiguities can cause major problems.
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In a multi component system where there is more than one supplier, misinterpretation of ambiguities in specifications is often the cause of problems during system integration
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System builders need representative interfaces and data to help them design and test their systems
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System builders create simulators based on their “understanding” of the specifications, hiding faults until late in the project. They need these to prove their system.
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Project development costs and time scales must include bespoke supplier test equipment, the ambiguities in the specifications compound the risk.
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Through life costs are impacted by all of the above
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