Thinkstream - PTI collaborate on Homeland Security

Washington, DC, March 17, 2003 – Public Technology, Inc.(PTI) has announced a new partnership with Thinkstream to help provide the nations’ states, counties and cities with technology solutions that will support their homeland security efforts. The partnership supports PTI’s mission of bringing the benefits of technology to local governments and compliments the organization’s inventory of technology solutions for homeland security and emergency preparedness.

Thinkstream is a small innovative software development company, based in Tigard, OR that provides web services integration platforms for servers, desktops, mobile devices and mainframes. One of its applications takes advantage of the distributed nature of the Internet to query different criminal justice databases and conduct real-time information searches almost instantaneously. "For the first time, users can call up data from its actual site, in its existing format, at precisely the moment is it is needed, regardless of location or format," said BARRY L. BELLUE, SR. Thinkstream President and CEO.

Thinkstream's solution will be featured next month in Miami where local elected and appointed officials from across the country will be convening during the Congress of Public Technologists. Government officials will have an opportunity to learn more about the software application and appreciate how it can be a major resource in responding to the homeland security imperative and public safety in general.

"Having the ability to easily interrogate disparate databases in real-time has been a long standing challenge for government law enforcement organizations. We are excited by what Thinkstream brings to the table and the timing could not be better," said Costis Toregas, president of PTI. "We are very pleased to be partnering with Thinkstream to expand the inventory of resources available to local governments" said Toregas.

Headquartered in Tigard, OR, Thinkstream set out in 1997 to create Internet search architecture capable of accessing the vast information available on the Internet in many different formats, returning only relevant results in real time. The company has developed, tested and is launching patent-pending technology that will create a new standard for accessing, managing and delivering information across the Internet.

Thinkstream’s technology enables companies to take advantage of the distributed nature of the Internet and uses a distributed information and commerce engine to deploy e-commerce networks, conduct information searches, develop information portals or manage catalogs.

About PTI
PTI is a non-profit technology research and development organization based in Washington, DC. Its membership of city and county governments represent the largest and most technology innovative local government in the nation. PTI’s mission is to bring the benefits of technology to local governments. Since being established in 1971, PTI has been closely affiliated with NLC, NACo and ICMA and has collaborated on a variety of projects and activities involving local government technology issues.

About Thinkstream
Thinkstream is the leader in distributed information networking, enabling secure, reusable web services connectivity to disparate systems, while leaving agencies in control of their own data and without data warehousing. Thinkstream integrates workflow, delivers complete criminal profiles, supports data analysis and enables distributed searches in networks that not only integrate local agencies, but coherently encompass whole states, including local, state and federal data sources.