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Client: The Met Office, Exeter

Project: Joint Meteorological Capability (JMC) Portal

The challenge

The Met Office’s vision for the JMC Portal was to create a web application that provides Met Office defence customers with the ability to register for access to Met Office-provided defence weather services. Once registered, users would gain the ability to access these services through the portal.

In addition, the portal needed to provide a variety of descriptive content, both to inform customers and also to promote the various services provided by the Met Office for its defence customers. The JMC Portal system would also provide in-built content management facilities, to enable Met Office marketing managers to have direct control of their customer-facing content.

Our solution

We ran a set of stakeholder workshops to develop descriptions of stakeholder needs and capability. Our workshops included all key Met Office stakeholders, comprising business sponsors, project managers and technical staff. Following the workshops, a team of our engineers produced a Use Case Model, with a supporting requirements model and documentation. We designed and developed a technical architecture using JSP, Oracle, Java, JBOSS, HTML, CSS and Javascript technologies. We communicated closely with the Met Office project manager throughout the process, providing weekly progress reports and several demonstrations, to ensure the system was exactly as required. We developed the system in accordance with specific standards, to allow the JMC Portal to be deployed on secure networks.

Benefits achieved

As a direct result of this project, existing and potential defence customers are now more aware of Met Office defence services. The portal’s registration function allows any user to register for interest in four different services provided by the Met Office:

  • MOMIDS (Met Office Military Information Display System)
  • JEDDS (Joint Environmental Dynamic Data Server)
  • TDA (Tactical Decision Aid Server)
  • Forecaster Toolset (a set of customisable weather tools).

    • In addition to accessing the services, users can now browse the Met Office marketing content within the portal and benefit from a formatted printing function.