Sustaining Members

This enhanced class of membership in the IJIS Institute provides companies a more significant and tangible way in which to support the Institute and its programs. In addition to significant financial support, Sustaining Members lend expertise and partner with the IJIS Institute in special projects that further the mission of the Institute and promote information sharing successes.

Sustaining Member Profiles

Appriss provides innovative technology solutions that keep communities safe and informed. Through victim notification, tracking offenders, and blocking the illegal sale of cold medicines, Appriss is improving the efficiency and accessibility of agencies across the country. Appriss specializes in helping agencies manage information sharing.

Its flagship product VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday), keeps crime victims informed on the custody and court status of offenders. VINE is now available in nearly every state in the country, as well as Puerto Rico, linking to approximately 95 percent of the nation's jails and prisons. In addition, the service has expanded to keep users up to date on probation and parole activity as well as when a protective order is served on an abuser.

Communities depend on the VINE suite of services everyday through email and telephone notifications. In some instances, lives have been saved because the families were notified before an offender arrived at their home.

JusticeXchange is a secure integrated justice solution that gives professionals access to an instant up-to-date database of more than 56 million booking records, 42 million incident reports, and other data from thousands of agencies across the country. It allows agencies to locate offenders, monitor probationers and parolees, view incident reports, set up watches for wanted individuals, as well as track down dead-beat parents.

Appriss provides the technology behind NPLEx (National Precursor Log Exchange.) This solution allows pharmacies to track and block the sale of cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in meth. It also gives law enforcement agencies immediate access to the list of those making purchases, allowing them to quickly track meth suppliers. Nearly a dozen states have adopted NPLEx as the service of choice to manage and monitor pseudoephedrine purchases.

In addition to its core products, Appriss provides 24/7 technology support including the assistance of live operators, who assist callers in registering for VINE or referring them to an agency in their community for assistance.

Training is a key part in helping communities become aware of the services Appriss provides. Weekly webinars are available to educate users on the products. A staff of learning specialists travels across the country conducting live, on-site trainings for criminal justice agencies on how to use the various services.

Protecting the security of client information; designing complex information highways.

Our information sharing service is supported by integration labs in Washington, DC, Charleston, SC, Annapolis Junction, MD, and Tewksbury, MA. This infrastructure enables us to research, develop, test, and evaluate leading edge solutions to solve our customers' most challenging information assurance problems. Our integration labs are staffed by CISSP CISA, and/or NSA IAM-certified subject matter experts.

We have successfully engineered and deployed a vast array of technical security controls across the globe. This includes deploying and supporting PKI to over 100 ships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet; implementing identity management safeguards such as PKI, biometrics, and tokens for a variety of clients; designing and implementing secure wireless solutions for various agencies; and leading the integration of the DOD enterprise-wide vulnerability management initiative.

For the Justice Department we are supporting 30,000 employees from a wide number of Justice components dispersed across 789 locations. In one successful task for Justice's Criminal Division, we performed the first implementation of Active Directory on the network and received an "Outstanding" satisfaction rating from the customer. In another task for the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys we implemented: (a) the Microsoft Project Enterprise Solution; and (b) a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that integrates the office's Microsoft Exchange Server and incorporates a security architecture that ensures incoming and outgoing wireless e-mail is encrypted using the triple data encryption standard. In accomplishing this task we deployed and customized 13,200 computers and 1,108 switches in 239 locations within eight months.

Our 3D Production Center produces solid terrain models (STM) using technology licensed from strategic partner Solid Terrain Models, Inc. STM models combine the worlds of flat maps, satellite and aerial imagery, and 3D physical terrain models into physical models that provide a level of understanding not found in any computer model, ordinary topographic model, or flat map. Models can be any size, from table top to wall mounted, and even tiled together to fill an entire exhibition hall. We have produced models for a number of users, most recently the Pentagon J2 and the 18th Airborne Corps.

Esri® develops geographic information systems (GIS) solutions that function as an integral component in nearly every type of organization. Carefully managed growth and zero debt give Esri stability that is uncommon in today's highly volatile business world. Private ownership means no stockholders forcing short-term decisions at the expense of long-term objectives.

On any given day, more than a million people around the world use Esri's GIS to improve the way their organizations conduct business. Esri gives GIS users what they need by listening closely and incorporating their feedback and recommended improvements. Esri also hosts the largest GIS industry event in the world, publishes two of the most widely circulated periodicals in the industry, and operates the leading GIS book publisher.

Fast Facts

Headquartered in Redlands, California, USA
10 domestic U.S. offices
80 distributors worldwide
2,200 business partners
Annual revenues of $794 million
2,800 employees in the United States
Zero-debt company
Privately held
Consistent annual revenue growth
20% of revenues reinvested in R&D each year

Esri software is used by more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including most U.S. federal agencies and national mapping agencies, 45 of the top 50 petroleum companies, all 50 U.S. state health departments, most forestry companies, more than 24,000 state and local governments, and many others in dozens of industries.

The Esri Professional Services Division has successfully collaborated with government, commercial, and other organizations to implement innovative GIS solutions. The Division offers project, implementation, and industry-focused services that include knowledge transfer to help users deploy GIS on their own, customization of off-the-shelf GIS technology, and delivery of ready-to-use enterprise systems. With each project, Esri leverages the technology developed and lessons learned through nearly 40 years of development of GIS solutions.

Esri fosters relationships with more than 65 software, technology, data, hardware, system integrator, and consulting companies to ensure product compatibility and explore new technologies. Esri works closely with major technology leaders such as HP, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, and others.

Esri delivers the most sought-after training solutions in the industry. Each year, more than 25,000 GIS professionals and students in the United States are trained by Esri or Esri-authorized instructors. In addition, more than 11,000 individuals from 180 countries have enrolled in Esri Web-based training courses and approximately 50,000 students a year complete university courses taught with Esri software.

“Effectively sharing information and actionable intelligence is vital to our Nation’s national security, counterterrorism and law enforcement agencies. Our biggest leaps forward will come from insights gleaned through perpetual, real-time analysis of data. At IBM, a sustaining IJIS member, we value the opportunity to partner with the IJIS Institute and our federal, state and local clients in these critically important mission areas.”

On a smarter planet, answers are hidden in the data.

IBM is leading the way toward a smarter planet — working directly with our clients to reduce crime, strengthen counterterrorism capabilities and protect citizens and infrastructure - often in cost-constrained environments. We partner with law enforcement and other agency leaders to strengthen public safety and national security by transforming data into actionable information and intelligence. From advanced video and data analytics to real-time interoperability and collaboration — our mission is to help our clients meet theirs.

The biggest leaps forward in the next several decades will come from insights gleaned through perpetual, real-time analysis of data.

With nearly 2 billion people on the Internet (and counting), and with more and more of the world’s systems becoming digitally aware, there is greater diversity in the forms and shapes data is taking—transactions of every kind, rich media, social media. More data than ever is being generated, and at far greater speeds.

Yet, while data is growing at an exponential rate, time is not. Which is why no organization, city or country can afford “enterprise amnesia.”

And that is why the new science of analytics must be core to every leader’s thinking. This is not about volume. The key to moving from “big data” to smarter data is to organize your information, in all its diversity; to understand its context; and to manage its evolution.

Any data point, by itself, is just about useless. But when you see it in context, analyze that context in real time—and can automatically capture the connections that one piece of data is itself making with other pieces of data—then you have a smart system.

Smarter data, delivered in real time, lets us keep pace with a world where risk and opportunity are constantly in flux. Rather than relying on snapshots of the past, our decisions can be real-time, fact-based projections.

A world of smart data offers enormous hope. It also raises important issues relating to privacy and security. But fortunately, as thousands of forward-thinking leaders today are discovering, data’s hidden meanings increase transparency, sustainability and knowledge. Which is turning a bold predicting into a promising reality.

Let’s build a smarter planet. Join us at ibm.com/smarterplanet.

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Microsoft provides technology solutions that help government agencies better serve citizens – any time, any place, and on any device. Every day, Microsoft helps agencies leverage investments they've already made in existing systems, allowing them to connect seamlessly to disparate applications while increasing productivity and cost savings. As the world's leading software provider for desktop and mobile computers, Microsoft engineers products that give government agencies choice – in the selection of devices, networks, services, and technology partners. And choice enables government to connect more easily with its constituents, with employees, and with suppliers. To learn more, visit Microsoft online.

Our Fusion Core Solution, developed jointly by Microsoft and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), is an easy-to-use, quick-to-configure solution that combines the robust capabilities of the ESRI ArcGIS Advanced Enterprise server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010. The solution offers:

Managed Intake: Preloaded and fully customizable forms.
Configurable Workflow: Four workflows to manage the way fusion center tasks flow.
Enterprise Search: Tools to search across multiple data sources.
Integrated Situation Awareness: Powerful geospatial mapping capabilities.
Analyst Collaboration: Integrated capabilities for websites, wikis, and blogs.
External Systems Connectivity: Easily configured, security-enhanced connections to external data sources.
Robust Security and Privacy Technologies: Integration with existing security features or directly out of the box.
Management Reporting: Powerful reporting capabilities to monitor center activities.

With Microsoft Fusion Framework and Fusion Core Solution, agencies can seamlessly move information from intake to analysis to dissemination in a multiple-agency, multilevel environment, while using existing assets and integrating with domain-specific applications. This gives agencies the ability to take proactive action to prepare for and respond to crises and to counter potential threats and criminal activities.

As the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs. At the same time, Microsoft understands that long-term success is about more than just making great products.

Microsoft's commitment to constant innovation is reflected in ongoing investment in research and development. Microsoft has invested more than $23 billion during the past 10 years to develop innovative solutions to the technology problems of today and tomorrow. The Microsoft Research group is exploring new worlds of software technology and advancing the frontiers of user-interface design, speech and language processing, and digital media. Microsoft now finds itself leading the next wave of the Internet or the "third generation Internet", with interoperable technologies that provide the enterprise with the flexibility to mesh heterogeneous information systems and provide programmability.

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. With more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading products give customers unmatched benefits including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit oracle.com.

As the industry-leading public safety software company, TriTech Software Systems provides innovative, comprehensive solutions for law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies. Through its extensive suite of products and sole focus on public safety, TriTech offers a solution for every size and segment of the law, fire and EMS market. The company leverages its extensive public safety experience and expertise to consistently deliver successful results and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction. TriTech is the largest public safety solution provider in America with more than 2,500 clients across the United States, and in other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and Ireland. For more information on TriTech, please visit www.tritech.com.

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