Web Services Integration Platform

Thinkstream Web Services Integration Platform is an advanced Services-Orientated Architecture with managed web services for infrastructure, communication and information integration applications. The technology offers the benefits of being the least intrusive method for integration with any system while offering the highest level of coordination and rapid application development in the overall network. These services are inherent and accessible throughout each component and allow agencies to function autonomously. Thinkstream Web Services, based on industry standards for XML and HTTP, are platform and language independent and compatible with virtually any number of systems including Microsoft's .NET and Sun's J2EE. These services are best suited to operate through firewalls and enable integration without sacrificing security or requiring extensive modifications to existing systems. Thinkstream's services are advanced to coordinate support for a large real time network with needs to scale to thousands of systems and manage a diverse set of sources and users.

The architectural philosophy is best described as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as opposed to a traditional "hub and spoke". Thinkstream is able to connect sites that are not directly connected to any central hub and we offer very advanced functionality in terms of routing information. The platform is ideally suited to tie together data and users across organizational boundaries and resolves the technical difficulties associated with routing communication, searching and updating multiple systems, mapping and translating data from disparate sources, security, and user management.

The Thinkstream solution enables real time execution of searches and messages without requiring centralized aggregation of information. It is component based and Thinkstream has focused its applications and solutions to provide wide scale integrated criminal justice systems supporting hundreds of agencies and thousands of data sources.

Thinkstream’s Web Services Platform enables the entry into several different markets:

Thinkstream provides a web services based platform for integration and organization of dissimilar systems. It is an advanced Service-Oriented Architecture enabling a rich set of coordinated and managed services. The architectural philosophy is best described as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as opposed to a traditional "hub and spoke".

Thinkstream is able to connect sites that are not directly connected to any central hub and offers very advanced functionality in terms of routing information. The platform is ideally suited to tie together data and users across organizational boundaries and resolves the technical difficulties associated with routing communication, searching and updating multiple systems, mapping and translating data from disparate sources, security, and user management. The Thinkstream solution enables real time execution of searches and messages without requiring centralized aggregation of information. It is component based and Thinkstream has focused its applications and solutions to provide wide scale integrated criminal justice systems supporting hundreds of agencies and thousands of data sources. All of the components are reusable "off the shelf" components which support XML standards for Justice Integration and in production across a number of Thinkstream projects documented elsewhere in this proposal.

Message Infrastructure

The Thinkstream Director is a services manager component that provides for overall network security, management and reporting. It is an “umbrella” over the entire network and enables management of the entire distributed network. Also, it includes the web-based network management tools for network monitoring and tuning, user administration and security management.

The Thinkstream Gateway is the application server and web server for Thinkstream networks. It provides a JavaScript/J2EE programming access and enables web-based applications, such as the Thinkstream ICJIS applications for Desktop, Mobile, PDA, and Dispatch uses.

Integration Broker

The Thinkstream Regional Manager is a flexible tool designed to route information for the purposes of a managed workflow. Routes are programmatically determined and users are provided a number of management applications to receive and approve data or search for records. Working in concert with the "In-Boxes" to import and export documents, or for other virtual case management as included with Thinkstream E-Justice Integrated Management Systems (EJCMS). Built entirely with Thinkstream technology, EJCMS manages all document transmission, receiving, approval, routing, workflow, external attachments and reporting throughout the entire criminal justice process.

CJIS Query Portal

Desktop ICJIS Application: Desktop ICJIS allows any authenticated user to search all of the databases in the criminal justice Network simultaneously for criminal data. Patrol ICJIS Application: Patrol ICJIS allows any authenticated user to do a targeted search for a vehicle, driver’s license or person. Data is quickly brought into an easy to read and summarized view. The mobile applications support wireless connections to PDAs and laptops.

Dispatch Application: Dispatch is a tool that helps command centers delivers high-impact criminal justice information to the field. With an easy to use web interface, entering a name, a DL or a license plate gives a complete summary of the individual and vehicle. This consolidated view includes warrants, violent criminal history and stolen vehicle status.

Each of the applications features support for “single sign-on” to allow users context sensitive federated searches across all of the data sources, aggregation of search results, matching algorithms for persons from distributed records, and messaging and alerting support.

Application Adapters

The Thinkstream Integrator is a services manager component that provides for regional and/or local agency data routing, user and group management, user authentication and management of the distributed network. It includes the web-based network management tools for network monitoring and tuning, user administration and security management across a distributed environment. Each Thinkstream Integrator fully supports data exchanges with push, pull, publish and subscribe features and is capable of local policy enforcements at any given level (i.e. for an end agency and data source).

Thinkstream Providers are attached to each data source. The Providers translate data from the back-end source to an XML format that is understood by all parties on the network and provide them as a service to the network.

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