Aradyme Unveils New Web Service for Connecting Voter Registration Systems.AMERICAN FORK, Utah American Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, USA, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range, north of Utah Lake. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21,941 and was estimated at 22,387 in 2004. It has been rapidly growing since the 1970s. -- Aradyme Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ADYE): --New service enables municipalities such as counties to integrate voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs. systems with state voter registration systems yet maintain autonomy of systems; allows states to maintain central repository of registered voters for federal elections while ensuring greater buy-in from constituent municipalities --Expanded service offering, work with Salt Lake County signifies Aradyme's formal entry into providing data services at the county level pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to the Help America Vote Act The Help America Vote Act (HAVA, Pub.L. 107-252) is a United States federal law passed the House 357-48 and 92-2 in the Senate[1] and was signed into law by President Bush on October 29, 2002. of 2002; lays foundation for company to establish, maintain ongoing business relationships with municipalities/counties in the future Aradyme Corporation (OTCBB:ADYE), a "Next Generation" database company, today unveiled a new XML-based Web Service that enables municipalities to integrate their voter registration (VR) systems with state VR system in order to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, yet maintain control over the data in their individual VR systems. The service, which will be offered in addition to Aradyme's core set of VR data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). , transformation and loading (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ) services, essentially provides municipalities with an interface between their individual VR systems and state VR systems. This allows the municipality MUNICIPALITY. The body of officers, taken collectively, belonging to a city, who are appointed to manage its affairs and defend its interests. to both manage its list of registered voters and account for data dependencies needed for other critical systems used by the municipality. In addition to streamlining the process for municipalities, the service makes it easier for states to establish and maintain their role as the definitive source for data for federal elections and create a central repository of registered voters that complies with HAVA via ensuring a higher level of buy-in among constituent municipalities, and minimizing the amount of time required to train municipality election officials on new state VR systems. "Disparate systems integration is an issue that's hot on the minds of election officials as they look to become HAVA compliant by the end of 2005," said James R. Spencer For other persons of the same name, see James Spencer. James Randolph Spencer was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1949. He attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Aradyme Corporation. "Aradyme's new Web Service gives municipalities a way to integrate their current voter registration systems with new state voter registration systems without having to sacrifice the other critical systems they use to run their municipality." Spencer continued, "There's been and continues to be an enormous demand for our data Extraction, Transformation and Loading services in the HAVA space. Part of the reason for this is because our 'Next Generation' technology is one of the only solutions available on the market that supplies states with the kind of flexibility they need to rapidly implement a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. state VR database in time to both secure federal funding and meet HAVA deadlines. Expanding our VR data services to the municipality level is a natural extension of our business as Aradyme continues to emerge as a major player in the voter registration space." Aradyme's new XML-based Web Service was originally developed for Salt Lake County, the largest county in Utah, which used the service to integrate its mainframe system with the State of Utah's Oracle-based VR system. For more information on Salt Lake County's use of this Aradyme service, please see the July 12, 2004 Aradyme/Salt Lake County news release titled "State of Utah Expands Aradyme's Role to Provide Voter Registration Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Interface" posted at http://www.aradyme.com. Pricing & Availability Aradyme's XML-based Web Service is available now by contacting the company at (801)756-9585. The price of the service varies based on the amount of work involved in building an interface between the unique systems being used by a state and municipality. About the Market According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Help America Vote Act of 2002, each state is required to establish and maintain a single, central, uniform, official and interactive computerized statewide voter registration database defined, maintained, and administered at the state level that contains the name and registration information of every legally registered voter in the state. The Act also requires the appropriate state or local election official to update the data in this repository on a regular basis. In an effort to support these endeavors, the federal government will award more than three billion dollars to the 50 states through 2006. The deadline for states to implement a HAVA-compliant computerized statewide VR database is January 1, 2006. For more information on these and other HAVA requirements, visit http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm. About Aradyme Corporation Aradyme Corporation (OTCBB: ADYE) is a "Next Generation" database company that provides the most advanced and innovative data migration services, application development and database management tools and solutions available in the marketplace today. The company's technology, which is 100% dynamic-schema driven, is the result of several breakthroughs the company has made in its underlying database management system (DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. ) technology that enable it to assist customers in overcoming many of the constraints and limitations that have plagued the database industry for years. Using Aradyme, customers are able to: gain more control over the data in their DBMS and legacy systems; have greater flexibility and utility of both data and database applications; efficiently and accurately solve database-related business problems and realize more cost-effective solutions; accelerate the deployment of new database management solutions; and better manage and grow their businesses. For more information about Aradyme, call (801)756-9585 or visit the company's web site at http://www.aradyme.com. |
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