Orange County Probation and Jacada Implement an Integrated User Interface to Manage Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Jacada Ltd.(NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : JCDA JCDA Journal of the Canadian Dental Association JCDA James Carpenter Design Associates JCDA Johnson City Development Authority (Johnson City, TN) JCDA Japan Craft Design Association JCDA Junior Catholic Daughters of America ), a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software, today announced that the Orange County, California Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana. According to the 2000 Census, its population was 2,846,289, making it the second most populous county in the state of California, and the fifth most populous in the United States. Probation Department has successfully developed an integrated user-interface for its disparate computing systems. Using Jacada to extend legacy Case Management System (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ) to a secure Intranet and then integrate this functionality with other systems at the interface level, Orange County Probation is supplying department personnel with consolidated access to critical information. In total, the Probation Department operates over 25 facilities, which are responsible for various functions, and employs approximately 1700 county workers, who are responsible for the physical, emotional, and sociological assessment of juvenile offenders. Orange County utilizes the CMS to determine the best possible location for an offender to be housed based on these assessments, current occupancy levels, and the type of treatment offered by each facility. "Our goal was to create a unified system that tracks offenders at every stage of their stay in any of our facilities," comments Dan Burtt, the department's director of data systems. "To deliver such an application, we saw the Internet as the logical vehicle to accomplish this task and Jacada provided a flexible, open solution to satisfy our requirements for integration." The new system, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the Institutional Management System (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) is comprised of five disparate applications and is designed to be a one-stop shop One-Stop Shop A company or a location that offers a multitude of services to a client or a customer. The idea is to provide convenient and efficient service and also to create the opportunity for the company to sell more products to clients and customers. for department personnel who manage the daily activities of juvenile offenders in the care and custody of the county. The new interface consolidates the CMS with a Notes application to allow for free form text within the IMS, a spell-check tool that promotes accurate data entry, and bar coding software that is used to scan offenders as they are transferred between facilities. Additionally, using the Jacada interface, probation officers probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. now access a Sequel server database that houses department photographs of juvenile offenders. The new system provides a common method of assessing individual offenders and tracking their movements to and from the department's facilities. "By rapidly integrating our disparate applications into the IMS, we are increasing employee efficiency, while decreasing our operational costs," states Burtt. "The integrated interface enables our employees to have necessary information readily available, work from a common assessment platform, and as a consequence, they are able to take the time required to effectively manage our offenders, engendering a safer and more stable environment for themselves and offenders alike." About Jacada Ltd. - Jacada Ltd. provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform legacy systems into e-business and wireless solutions and to empower enterprise developers to build Internet applications. Jacada solutions are in use today at major corporations and government organizations such as AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD) AIG American International Group, Inc AiG Answers in Genesis (religious group in defense of Scripture) AIG Artificial Intelligence Group AIG Australian Industry Group , Caterpillar caterpillar (kăt`əpĭl'ər, kăt`ər–), common name for the larva of a moth or butterfly. Caterpillars have distinct heads and are segmented and wormlike. , Delta Air Lines, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, The Federal Reserve Bank, Porsche Cars North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Prudential Insurance Company of America, and US Department of Interior. Jacada operates globally with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, England. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574. This press release may contain "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). When used in this report, the words "may," "could," "should," "would," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan" and similar expressions or statements regarding future periods are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain as they are based on various expectations and assumptions concerning future events, which by their nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement for events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made. The Company cannot assess the impact of or the extent to which any single factor or risk, or combination of them, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of risk factors, please see the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed on October 14, 1999 and its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 1999. |
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