Syscon Answers Data Knowledge Needs in New User-Friendly Case Probation Management Solution.FOLSOM, Calif. -- Syscon Justice Systems is proud to announce its launch of the Probation Knowledge Center (PKC PKC Protein Kinase C (biochemistry) PKC Public Key Cryptography PKC Public Key Certificate PKC PaKua Chang (Chinese martial art) PKC Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Choreoathetosis ). PKC is a Global 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. , knowledge-based case management system. PKC is a .Net product that can utilize either a MS SQL server See Microsoft SQL Server. or Oracle database. Syscon has started PKC implementations in Trinity and Siskiyou Counties, with additional agencies scheduled to go live with the system later this year. PKC is a customizable Probation Case Management suite complete with user-friendly interface, smart agents, and home page access to essential documents and templates. The ad hoc query A non-standard inquiry. An ad hoc query is created to obtain information as the need arises. Contrast with a query that is predefined and routinely performed. See query and ad hoc. engine and data analyzer can search, filter, group, index, count and summarize data dynamically. "Probation personnel are frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: with systems that capture data, but require advanced technical skills to get even basic information out. The tools necessary to access query and report data in today's increasingly rigorous environment have not met department needs. PKC is the industry-leading Probation knowledge solution allowing managers to easily address data analysis requests, draw associations between findings, and recognize trends and patterns in a way that would be virtually impossible with static reporting," said Syscon Inc. President, Lisa Kenney. Syscon's ad hoc query and data analyzer allows managers to easily ask and answer the 'how many' questions: how many probationers are there per officer; how many active warrants do we have; how many sex offenders in a particular zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , etc. Probation officers can easily ask and answer specific questions related to a case, such as have there been changes in a case I am investigating, has there been an event (a re-arrest, a fight in juvenile hall, etc.) that affects the case, and more. PKC allows probation officers to effectively manage their caseloads and spend time focused on what they do best, supervise and communicate with probationers. Syscon's Probation Knowledge Center application will be available for demonstration at the American Probation and Parole Association Winter Conference in Atlanta, GA, later this month. About Syscon: For 27 years, Syscon has been the world leader in innovative Offender and Case Management Software. Syscon has systems implemented 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. , Australia, and Europe. In 2004, Syscon was chosen to provide the software platform for the entire prison and probation management system in England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . More than 500,000 offenders are managed through Syscon systems every day, without fail. For more information about Syscon, please visit www.syscon.net. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion