Integrated Justice Services

In today’s world information sharing throughout the criminal justice community is critical to combating criminal activities and safeguarding the public. Enlightened’s integrated justice services help our clients overcome technical, political, and security barriers to information sharing across multiple Federal, state, and/or local agencies.

Our Capabilities

• Standards based Integration using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to Connect Disparate Systems Across Multiple Jurisdictions
  As there are multiple disparate systems within a criminal justice jurisdiction, the complexity to share and communicate information is paramount. Enlightened SOA approach is based on extraction of reusable components called “services” from different criminal justice IT systems. The services become the building blocks for the over all Enterprise SOA solution. Our SOA governance methodology resolves the complexity of standards, processes, roles, policies, contracts, best practices and procedures associated with SOA adoption.
• Case Management Systems Integration With National and Local Initiatives for Information Sharing
  As information is shared locally within the integrated system, the natural next level of progression is to share information regionally and nationally. Enlightened’s standards based approach to integration makes case management system integration with different initiatives completely seamless. The agile development processes produces extremely cost effective quality solutions in least amount of time.
• Integrated Query/Search Portal Development
  Enlightened’s solution provides a Web-based, state-of-the-art, full-text search query and response application that enables an agency to look up criminal justice information across different agency systems, all at the click of the mouse within milliseconds. Enlightened’s solution utilizes the industry best FAST Enterprise Search Platform.
• Architectural Guidance for Data Exchange, Collaboration, and Messaging among Jurisdictions
  Enlightened’s data exchange solution is implemented on an enterprise level Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) supporting federated security model. The solution utilizing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) enables agencies to exchange documents, data, and information electronically and transparently in a standard created by the Department of Justice (DOJ) called NIEM (National Information Exchange Model) / GJXDM (Global Justice XML Data Model). Enlightened’s award winning solution provides an infrastructure for routing, transformation, and guaranteed delivery of information across the integrated system with complete capability for criminal justice business process automation.

Benefits
Our integrated justice services help clients connect and integrate disparate systems so that data flows seamlessly between them. They get real-time information, from more sources, with less human intervention. The result is greater productivity in the operations of their law enforcement, courts, and corrections, and greater safety to the public they serve.

Our Goals
We strive to provide client agencies with accurate and timely information on offenders and events, from arrest and booking through judicial decisions, corrections, and post-release. Some hallmarks of Enlightened integrated justice systems are:

• Rules-based information sharing
• Real-time access to more reliable data
• Cost-effective implementations with minimal disruptions
• Less data entry, resulting in fewer human errors
• Analytical tools to discern and display patterns in criminal activity
• More information accessible by Web and mobile devices.

Our Approach
Wherever possible, we try to incorporate the latest thinking and technologies into the systems we create. Thus we avoid early obsolescence and provide clients with flexible systems to accommodate future industry-wide improvements. Some highlights of the Enlightened approach to integrated justice systems are:

• Tight project planning and management controls
• Ongoing customer involvement in all phases of the project
• Support of open computing standards such as the Global JXDM sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice
• Commercial off-the-shelf solutions modified to unique customer needs
• Open interfacings that allow interconnectivity now and in the future
• Attention to detail through continual testing.

Tools
Some of the technologies and tools we incorporate in our justice systems are:

• Service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Web services and enterprise service bus
• SOAP and XML technologies