Sypherlink Introduces Out-of-the-box Enhancement to its NIE Gateway Solution for Law Enforcement; NIEM Harmonizer Enables Quick, Cost-Effective Data Sharing and NIEM Standards Conformance

Acxiom, Informatica, Computer Aid, CrimeCog, and IJIS Institute to present perspectives at IACP LEIM on leveraging NIEM and NIE Gateway solution

DUBLIN, Ohio - August 21, 2009 DUBLIN, Ohio, May 5, 2008 -- One year after the launch of its National Information Exchange (NIE) Gateway solution for government data-sharing and intelligence efforts, Sypherlink debuts the NIEM Harmonizer out-of-the-box solution for enabling law enforcement agencies and public safety application vendors of all sizes to quickly and cost-effectively share their critical data with local, state and federal agencies and conform to the national information exchange model (NIEM) standard.

Sypherlink will demonstrate this new component to its NIE Gateway Solution at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) Section in Nashville, Tenn., May 7-9, where it is an event sponsor.

"The NIEM Harmonizer solution allows an agency or vendor of any size, regardless of available technical resources, to share information across jurisdictional boundaries, supporting public safety and national security efforts," said Sypherlink CEO James Paat. "The significant input of time, money and technical skills previously required is completely off-loaded to the pre-configured application, allowing agency and vendor personnel to stay focused on their daily activities."

Paat explained that the solution works behind the scenes to automate every step of the data sharing and conversion process. The solution, as delivered to the agency, leverages pre-configured mappings from the agency-specific system to NIEM; provides a NIEM-conformant view of the agency data; and automatically generates XML conforming to the target recipient’s requirements. It also supports simple and complex XML requirements, such as the Department of Justice’s LEXS (Law Enforcement Information Sharing Program Exchange Specification), which is leveraged by such agencies as the FBI.

In addition to presenting live product demonstrations, Sypherlink will be joined by key industry partners and experts involved in the integrated justice data-exchange "supply chain." These experts will present individual "NIEM In-Perspective" sessions addressing how to leverage the NIEM standard and Sypherlink’s NIE Gateway solution for every critical aspect of data and intelligence sharing.

Following is the schedule of 10-minute presentations, which will take place daily between 11 a.m. and noon in the theater at Sypherlink’s and its partners’ exhibit, booths #720 & #722:

Wednesday, May 7

11:30 am: Joel Neubert, Acxiom Government Sales & Marketing Leader – How investigators/analysts can leverage consumer records and the NIE Gateway solution for a more complete picture and more effective decision making

11:45 am: Brian Sullivan, Director of Public Safety, Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI) – Fusion Centers: What’s working, what’s not, and how NIEM and the NIE Gateway solution can help solve the problems

Thursday, May 8

11:10 am: Paul Wormelli, Executive Director, IJIS Institute – How to leverage NIEM for better coordination of efforts, reuse with future projects

11:30 am: James Paat, CEO, Sypherlink – How regional and state data exchanges can leverage the NIE Gateway solution for accelerated time-to-value, reduced implementation costs, NIEM conformance and the flexibility to support other data sharing efforts

11:45 am: Brad Weisberg, Principal Sales Consultant, Informatica – Leveraging Informatica and the NIE Gateway to speed data integration and ensure data quality

Friday, May 9

11:15 am: Rehan Chawdry, Public Safety Practice Leader, Sypherlink – NIEM/LEXS: A technical perspective

11:45 am: Mike McGarry, CTO, CrimeCog – How a service-based E*Justice System can provide cost-effective, NIEM-conformant data exchange and integration

Paat will open each day’s presentation with a brief overview of how the NIE Gateway solution can simplify and accelerate NIEM conformance and maintenance.

Chawdry also will be co-presenting a session during the conference, on Friday, May 9, from 1:30-2:30 p.m., titled "NIEM in Action: Roadmap to Successful Standards-based Information Sharing," providing an overview of NIEM, with a focus on how agencies at the local, state and federal levels are adopting and using the model.

About Sypherlink, Inc.
Sypherlink is a data-integration-software and NIEM conformance provider that intelligently links critical information across disparate data sources. The company's products and solutions are based upon its core, patented heuristics-matching technology for automating the data discovery and mapping process. Sypherlink's National Information Exchange (NIE) Gateway solution combines this unique technology with pre-built interfaces to rich information sources, and conformance to the national information exchange model (NIEM) to minimize the time and effort for law enforcement and public safety agencies to become NIEM conformant. The company's client/partner base includes global 1,000 organizations, government agencies, and leading systems integrators and application/tool providers. Sypherlink is a member of the IJIS Institute. Sypherlink is a Saama Technologies company.

Sypherlink and Sypherlink NIE Gateway are trademarks of Sypherlink, Inc. The names of other actual companies, organizations and/or products/services mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Kevin Wolf
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