The Ohio Supreme Court has selected Unisys Corp. (News - Alert) to develop a pilot project for a judicial data warehouse to integrate data from information systems in 17 Ohio courts.
As a part of the project, Unisys will download, integrate and securely store information from the courts and create an interface to other state agencies, including the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Ohio Department of Corrections. It will also provide project management services. Through this project, participating courts and other justice system partners across the state will ultimately benefit from improved inter-jurisdictional communications and access to critical judiciary data in a real-time environment.
"Collaboration and sharing information are paramount given the heightened state of security worldwide," Gerry Wethington, vice president, Justice and Public Safety, Unisys, was quoted as saying in the report. "Integrated justice is all about security, agility and dependability, all of which provides courts and their justice system partners with timely and improved decision-making capabilities."
The one-year firm-fixed-price contract for the pilot project, known as the Ohio Courts Network (OCN), has been valued at approximately $2.2 million. Future phases of the project will integrate the remaining 360 courts into the OCN. The expected end result will be ‘one-stop shopping’ for Ohio court data, which will allow statistical analysis and search capability across jurisdictions.
The OCN's infrastructure will comprise Unisys ES7000-series server platforms and will utilize Microsoft's (News - Alert) SQL database for the centralized data warehouse.
Unisys partner on this project, Metatomix of Waltham, Mass., will offer its Judiciary Inquiry System (JIS) dashboard and associated inquiry capabilities to the integration, assisting Unisys in delivering a proven solution to the customer. Metatomix had earlier deployed a similar system for the Supreme Court of Florida.
Today, justice agencies - state, local and federal - must share data, documents and images at key decision points throughout the justice system in a secure environment. As a matter of surprise, many agencies cannot facilitate this information sharing with their current IT systems.
Calvin Azuri is a contributing writer for TMCnet
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