Justice IT Community Calls on Sypherlink
NIEM/LEXS Expertise
Company Justice Practice Leader Chawdry to present at 2009 NIEM National Training Event this fall and deliver IJIS NIEM course for State of Oklahoma next week

DUBLIN, Ohio, August 21, 2009 – Sypherlink, Inc. will provide expertise and training on the justice and public safety industry’s information sharing standard – the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) – and the Logical Entity eXchange Specifications (LEXS) during two upcoming training events: the 2009 NIEM National Training Event and the NIEM Practical Implementer’s Course for the State of Oklahoma.

Rehan Chawdry, Sypherlink Justice & National Security Practice Leader, will present at the 2009 NIEM National Training Event, to be held September 30 through October 2 in Baltimore, Md. The event will provide best practices and case studies for nationwide implementation and use of NIEM in a variety of domains, including justice, public safety, homeland security, health and human services, maritime, courts, and corrections.

Chawdry’s session, “Mapping Databases to LEXS”, will focus on providing industry practitioners – including justice application vendors and systems integrators – with current information about the LEXS standard and best practices for use/re-use of justice data maps. The session will be held on Thursday, Oct. 1st at 4:15 pm at the Baltimore Hilton.

“Vendors, especially those focused on public safety records management, are often asked to participate and provide data for integration efforts using NIEM/LEXS,” said Chawdry. “But, often times, they’re not given the proper resources or compensation to successfully support the effort. This session will talk about ways to overcome these challenges by leveraging existing justice data maps and work already completed to speed these efforts and reduce resource requirements.”

Chawdry will also lead the NIEM training engagement to be held August 25-27, 2009 in Oklahoma City, Okla. The three-day course, organized by the IJIS Institute – with funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the U.S. Department of Justice – will provide practical implementation strategies for information sharing exchanges and methodologies utilizing the NIEM standard. Approximately 30 developers and practitioners from various state and local agencies will attend the training.

According to Sypherlink CEO, James Paat, NIEM is the integral standard for public safety and justice data sharing.

“Since NIEM was launched in 2005, it has quickly become the foundation for inter-agency data sharing among federal, state, and local agencies,” said Paat. “We realized early on that embracing this standard and providing the required domain expertise, accelerating technologies, and pre-built interfaces would help agencies and partner vendors to more quickly realize the goals of their critical data sharing efforts.”

About Sypherlink, Inc.
Sypherlink is an information-management-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. For more information, go to www.sypherlink.com/markets/government.asp. For more information about Sypherlink, go to www.sypherlink.com.

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For more information, please contact:

Kristy Campbell
614.652.6883
kcampbell@sypherlink.com