Florida Department of Law Enforcement Selects Sypherlink to Accelerate Statewide Criminal Intelligence Sharing Initiative

Sypherlink Harvester™ named standard metadata mapping and Global Justice XML compliance tool to be used across 500 law enforcement agencies.

DUBLIN, Ohio, January 18, 2006 -- Sypherlink, Inc., an information integration software provider, today announced the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has chosen its Harvester™ metadata discovery and mapping software as the cornerstone for its plan to integrate vital law enforcement information across the state utilizing the Federal Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM).

The FDLE created the Florida Law Enforcement eXchange (FLEX) initiative to establish effective, secure and credible data interoperability among Florida law enforcement agencies and regional partners to assist with crime control and domestic security initiatives. The first critical phase of this initiative is to build, and then map regional systems to, the FLEX data model that will provide for a common vocabulary that is understood system-to-system and region-to-region. The FLEX model will adhere to the U.S. Department of Justice's GJXDM standard, designed specifically for criminal justice information exchanges.

Sypherlink Harvester was selected to support and accelerate the time-to-value and reduce the total cost of ownership for the FLEX initiative. Traditionally, this essential mapping phase is a very manual, resource-intensive and laborious process. It is estimated that Harvester will reduce implementation time and costs by 50% or more through its unique ability to automate the understanding and mapping of the data elements from the various law enforcement systems to the national standard GJXDM.

"Sypherlink's unique mapping technology was created for large, distributed data sharing efforts such as this. We are proud it has been recognized by such a prominent state as Florida and for such an important effort as integrated justice," said James Paat, president and chief executive officer of Sypherlink. "Every American stands to benefit from Florida's data sharing effort and we are excited to play an integral part in making that happen."


About Sypherlink, Inc.

Sypherlink, Inc. is a privately-held information integration software company serving the global 1000, public sector organizations, and any company with a need to manage or access information across multiple data sources. Sypherlink's suite of products significantly reduces the time and cost associated with data-sharing and data-integration initiatives by enabling companies to quickly: gain knowledge of where key data exists across an organization; access that data from multiple, disparate sources; and ensure reliability of data, for quality and consistency. Today, this process - an essential first step in every data-sharing initiative - is manual, costly, and error-prone. Sypherlink automates the process, resulting in a much faster, less costly and higher-quality implementation. Sypherlink implementations have shown a 50 to 85 percent reduction in the time and costs associated with data sharing and integration initiatives. Sypherlink was founded in 2001 and is based in Dublin, Ohio.

For more information, please contact:
Kristy Campbell
Director of Marketing
Sypherlink
Phone: 614-652-6100 x6113
kcampbell@sypherlink.com