Thinkstream Announces Entry into Criminal Justice Market

Distributed Technology Provides Significant Advantages Over Previous Technologies

Tigard, OR, March 1, 2003 – Thinkstream, Inc. today announced its entry into the Criminal Justice market space. The company is currently deploying its patent-pending distributed information networking platform to local, state and federal criminal justice agencies to integrate agency workflow, perform distributed searches, analyze data and compile criminal profiles.

Among criminal justice agencies, there are countless information systems scattered across many organizations and physical geography. Each of these systems is different from the next and few, if any, are capable of integrating with others. These systems do not speak with each other because when they were built this was not a concern. However, now that these systems have massively proliferated, it is a vital concern.

It is vital because personnel, law enforcement officers for example, need a complete information picture or profile on their subjects. This complete picture is like a jigsaw puzzle and, unfortunately, the individual pieces are scattered throughout countless information systems, many of which are not securely accessible by the people who have a critical need for that information.

Thinkstream, Inc. is a software company that has created a distributed information network platform and accompanying solutions that give the complete information picture. Thinkstream technology enables web services-based distributed information networks. These networks give a flexible, secure, real-time view of all the data that is scattered throughout databases and other systems such as desktop PCs and web sites. No solution delivering this level of information connectivity has existed previously. Even though countless hardware and software platforms exist, Thinkstream can tie them together securely, even across organizational, agency and geographic boundaries.

This platform is an evolutionary step forward from previous generations of technologies that force agencies to drastically change or replace their existing systems, an expensive, risky and time consuming proposition. Thinkstream, on the other hand, extends rather replaces systems, an enormous benefit when multi-agencies projects are under consideration.

About Thinkstream
Thinkstream Inc., a leading software development company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, specializes in criminal justice applications that tie agencies together securely giving them the ability to rapidly share critical information across organizational, agency and geographic boundaries. In the State of Louisiana, the Company has deployed the largest civil and criminal information network in the nation. The company also operates systems in California, Florida, Mississippi and Texas. Most recently, the company deployed a statewide inmate tracking and emergency classification system in cooperation with the Louisiana Department of Corrections. The ITEC system will eventually give all law enforcement agencies the ability to share and access local, state and federal information about an inmate.

Thinkstream Inc. is an active member of the Internet Working Group for Justice Integration Committee. Established by the U.S. Department of Justice, committee members contribute their knowledge and experience to promote and implement integrated information systems (IJIS) throughout the country.