XAware Selected by Alaska's Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board; XA-iServer Powers Criminal Justice Exchange Pilot between Court and Public Defender Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2004 XAware, Inc., a leader in XML-based information exchange, announces that it has been selected by the state of Alaska to implement a criminal justice data exchange program to enable criminal justice agencies to securely share information. The proof of concept phase of this project was completed in December, automating information exchange between the Alaska Courts case management system and the Public Defender's office. This first exchange eliminates the need to manually process over 2,500 Appointment of Counsel Notices each year. Based on the significant cost savings achieved with the first proof of concept exchange, future phases could automate as many as 30 additional exchanges already documented. "XAware software was a natural follow-up to the exchange analysis the MAJIC MAJIC Multi-TADIL Advanced Joint Interoperability Course MAJIC Monopulse Angle Jamming Integrated Countermeasure MAJIC Matlab Just-in-Time Compiler team recently completed," said Debbie Cook, Chief Information Officer for the Alaska Court System The Alaska Court System is the unified, centrally administered, and totally state-funded judicial system for the State of Alaska. It has four levels of state courts: the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Court of Appeals, the Alaska Superior Court, and the . "XAware allows for the development and management of data exchanges in a rapid development environment providing the leverage necessary for scalable system-wide implementation." The project, named MAJIC (Mapping Alaska's Justice InterChanges), is managed by Alaska's Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board (CJIAB), which advises the Department of Public Safety (DPS Minicomputer series from Bull HN. 1. (language, text) DPS - Display PostScript. 2. (language) DPS - A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests. ["Language Constructs for Distributed Real-Time PRogramming", I. ) and other justice agencies on developing and operating criminal justice information systems. The MAJIC team includes members from the Alaska Court System, DPS, Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor's Office, Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Agency, University of Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center and the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center-Northwest (NLECTC-Northwest). The NLECTC-Northwest was established to provide assistance in defining requirements for information and operational technology. Founded in 2001 under the National Institute of Justice, this program identifies, evaluates, demonstrates and assesses technology applications for state and local law enforcement and corrections agencies. SEARCH, the National Consortium of Justice Information and Statistics, participated through the use of the JIEM tool, the Justice Information Exchange Modeling tool, an application that documents and provides analysis on criminal justice data exchanges. Once exchanges are documented using the JIEM tool, in many cases the next step is to implement electronic exchanges using the XA-iServer from XAware. "XAware is excited to be working with the state of Alaska, SEARCH and NLECTC NLECTC National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center on this statewide project," said Bill Miller, XAware's 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. . "The XML-based XA-iServer was designed to rapidly enable agencies to exchange information in a secure environment while leveraging industry standards like 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. and JusticeXML." XA-iServer is an advanced XML-based data integration and exchange engine that creates XML documents of information from disparate criminal justice systems across agencies. The XA-iServer retrieves, translates, transforms and aggregates disparate information into unified XML documents, such as rap sheets, arrest warrants, charging reports and hundreds of other documents used within criminal justice proceedings. XAware preserves the security of information it processes by integrating with existing authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , authorization and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. technologies and by restricting access to sensitive data by user/role and content rules. The XAware approach is based on leveraging industry standards with a commercial off-the-shelf Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) is a term for software or hardware, generally technology or computer products, that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. (COTS) software product that provides a flexible, vendor-neutral environment. From warrant management, case management, court scheduling, to electronic filing, XAware provides rapid information exchange that improves public safety and eliminates paper and manual process while reducing costs. Visit http://www.xaware.com/criminaljustice for more information on XAware software for the criminal justice environment. About XAware, Inc. XAware, Inc. is a worldwide leader in XML enablement, data integration and information exchange supporting 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. , Java, Windows and .Net technologies. From a single point of access, users can query, customize and gain visibility to information from hundreds of application and data sources inside and outside the corporation. XAware eliminates the need to write complex custom code to retrieve, translate, manipulate and exchange information; shortening project schedules, reducing costs, and enabling information exchange between systems, companies and government agencies. XAware is focused on serving the needs of government agencies and 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. companies. Founded in 1999 with venture funding, XAware is based in Colorado Springs, Colo. For more information on XAware, visit www.xaware.com or call 719.884.5400. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : A case study providing more detail about XAware's implementation by Alaska can be found at http://www.xaware.com/Alaska Agency Legend: CJIAB - Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board MAJIC - Mapping Alaska's Justice InterChanges NLECTC-Northwest - National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center-Northwest SEARCH - The National Consortium of Justice Information and Statistics JIEM - Justice Information Exchange Modeling tool DPS - Department of Public Safety Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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