State and Local Justice and Law Enforcement Organizations Commit to iWay Integrated Justice Suite.NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development , Richmond, VA Police Department, Arizona Department of Public Safety and Others Speed Data Integration for Improved Inter-Agency Collaboration and Criminal Intelligence NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Information Builders (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real time Web reporting. , the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, and its subsidiary iWay Software iWay Software, an Information Builders subsidiary, makes over 300 software-based adapters that access data from applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Baan as well as databases such as Adabas, DB2, SQL Server and Oracle and deliver these data to other systems and , an innovator of enterprise integration solutions, today announced that dozens of government organizations have adopted the iWay Integrated Justice (IJ) Suite. State and local law enforcement and judicial agencies use iWay's solution to easily integrate information systems and share information about criminals' activities and whereabouts - helping to bring criminals to justice and keep communities safe. Across the country, high-profile crimes and terrorist threats have magnified a known shortcoming short·com·ing n. A deficiency; a flaw. shortcoming Noun a fault or weakness Noun 1. of the nation's criminal justice system: the inability of justice agencies to share information that may be related to other crimes about suspects, investigations, and past offenders in other jurisdictions. The solution to this problem lies in transforming operational systems using a modern integration platform that adheres to open Global Justice XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. .1 Government organizations that use or recently purchased the iWay IJ Suite include: * At the state level - Arizona Department of Public Safety; California Department of Justice; Colorado Department of Corrections; Delaware Judicial System; Illinois and Pennsylvania state police The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is the state police force of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. It was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, in response to the private police forces used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes ; Iowa, New Jersey, and Michigan state courts; Louisiana Department of Public Safety; and Missouri State Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. * At the local level - New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Police Department (NYPD), Mayor's Office, and Department of Telecommunications and IT; Omaha, NE Police Department; and Harris, TX and Volusia, FL County Courts "An effective criminal intelligence solution uses advanced technology to unify law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). in the pursuit of justice," said Kevin Mergruen, vice president of Public Sector at Information Builders. "iWay Software is the only company addressing the need for solutions that bring together different levels of government and build the horizontal 'system of systems' mandated by the President. The iWay IJ Suite has seen tremendous adoption because it addresses a critical problem quickly, leverages existing systems, and delivers actionable information in real time with minimal IT resources. The result is a seamless flow of information across the full criminal justice supply chain." The iWay IJ Suite provides a comprehensive software package for inter-agency data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. and collaboration. It provides the foundation for service-oriented architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ), a systematic and repeatable way to create interoperability among new applications and previously disparate systems. iWay fosters real-time delivery of secure, actionable information in an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand fashion. iWay adapters, which can XML-enable virtually any system in days or weeks, ease integration with more than 300 back-end and legacy assets, helping budget-constrained organizations. Solution in Action DataShare, the name given to New York City's enterprise integration platform, is an award-winning example of the iWay IJ suite in action. The public safety portal is the user-facing dimension of the City's new platform, providing agency users and administrators with access to business services and administrative functionality. It was a city-wide effort, developed by New York City's Criminal Justice Coordinator and the Department of Technology and Telecommunications in partnership with the NYPD, Departments of Correction, Probation and Juvenile Justice, the Office of Court Administration, the District Attorneys and other criminal justice organizations. The application links 17 agencies across six counties and enhances support for criminal justice investigations, trial preparation and case follow-up to improve public safety outcomes. For example, a detective investigating a pattern of robberies can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; receive a text message on a pager the minute a person matching the perpetrator's description is arrested anywhere in the City; or an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx can automatically receive an e-mail when a defendant, for whom he is about to offer a plea bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the , is arrested in Queens. New York City Mayor Bloomberg's office has called the multi-agency DataShare approach "a bold technology initiative that will dramatically improve how police, prosecutors, courts, and other criminal justice agencies communicate and share information." About iWay and the Integrated Justice Suite iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make SOAs easy to implement. Customers achieve fast ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by using iWay to reduce custom programming and solve problems quickly, while creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The iWay Integrated Justice Suite aids in the development of all law-enforcement information technologies required as part of the justice continuum, including computer-aided dispatch, records management, geographic information systems (GIS), mapping, court case management and offender tracking, and others. By deploying iWay solutions, state and local police can share critical information. Similarly, organizations can share court and prison data across jurisdictions to alert authorities when a suspect enters the justice system for an unrelated crime or to build a more complete picture during a pre-sentence investigation. About Information Builders Information Builders is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most scalable, secure, and flexible - is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment of organizations seeking to leverage all their data - by accessing it all from legacy to data warehouse - is unmatched. Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services for over 31 years to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,600 people and has over 350 business partners. For more information, visit www.informationbuilders.com. 1 For more information about Global Justice XML Standards, see http://www.it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=8. |
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