SunGard Public Sector Wins Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2008.LONDON -- SunGard Public Sector (http://www.sungardps.com) today announced that its SunGard DS2000 Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS ICCS International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS International Council for Canadian Studies (Conseil International d'Études Canadiennes) ICCS International Council for Canadian Studies ) has been recognised in the Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2008. SunGard Public Sector won the award for its continuous development of public safety communication systems. The Queen's Award recognizes the contribution that SunGard has made in improving the operational efficiency of public safety control rooms and thus helping to save lives. The DS2000 ICCS has been deployed across a broad range of public agencies in the UK including Police, Fire and Ambulance, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is a UK executive agency working to prevent the loss of lives at sea and it is responsible for implementing maritime safety policy. This involves coordinating search and rescue (SAR) at sea through Her Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG), ensuring that , the Highways Agency, British Transport Police The British Transport Police (BTP) is a special police force[1] empowered to police those railways and light-rail systems in Great Britain for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services. , the MOD Police and RAF Search and Rescue. The completion of the roll-out to the ambulance service by the end of 2009 will see the DS2000 ICCS underpinning un·der·pin·ning n. 1. Material or masonry used to support a structure, such as a wall. 2. A support or foundation. Often used in the plural. 3. Informal The human legs. Often used in the plural. the Government's drive to bring improved response times to the whole of the UK population. The DS2000 ICCS provides public safety organizations with flexible options for telephony and radio dispatch. Immediate touch-screen access gives the call taker/dispatcher an advantage when every second is vital. The DS2000 ICCS has traditionally been deployed to support fixed location control rooms; however, one of the innovations developed by SunGard has been a fully portable operator position that can be deployed quickly and easily for major events such as football matches and at disaster incidents. Moving forward, the success of the DS2000 ICCS product in the UK has generated strong interest from overseas public safety organisations. Paul Eggleton, head of control room solutions at SunGard Public Sector, commented, "The Queen's Award recognizes the contribution that the SunGard DS2000 team has made in developing innovative solutions for emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' . The DS2000 system was the first of its type to be integrated with TETRA tetra: see characin. tetra Any of numerous attractively coloured freshwater South American and African fishes (family Characidae), often kept in home aquariums. Tetras are small, lively, hardy, and unaggressive. radio systems. Features such as dynamic allocation of TETRA radio system interfaces and the portable operator solution were developed to solve operational and deployment issues for the emergency control room environment." About SunGard Public Sector SunGard Public Sector serves a wide range of customers-- city and county governments, public safety and justice agencies, school districts, not-for-profit organizations, and state and central governments. SunGard Public Sector products include public administration, public safety and justice, and K-12 education software, as well as associated services and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects . These solutions impact more than 100 million citizens in 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. and 50 million citizens in the UK. Visit SunGard Public Sector at www.sungardps.com. About SunGard With annual revenue of $5 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the continuity of their business. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world's 50 largest financial services companies. 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