Enterprise Transformation
Integrated Justice Optimized with
3D Blueprinting
Business Problem
For a major metropolitan government, justice information resides in disparate, siloed systems and can’t be shared easily across local jurisdictions and among law enforcement, courts, corrections and homeland security professionals who need it.
Data is keyed into multiple systems, resulting in numerous errors and low productivity. Information isn’t communicated quickly enough, so criminal cases are processed too slowly. The quality of justice suffers.
An Integrated Justice Information Sharing (IJIS) solution holds the key to improving justice for this client. And the Unisys 3D Blueprinting methodology will help government decision-makers see the effects of changes even before they’re made — throughout every layer of the enterprise.
It starts with a 3D Blueprint for our IJIS solution, which provides a framework for an integrated justice solution, detailing the universal justice information exchanges. Then, we document the unique attributes of the specific client organization by creating digital models and artifacts that help us create a customized 3D Blueprint geared specifically to the client.
See how Unisys makes this happen, throughout the four layers of this government organization…
Strategy Layer
Our consultants will assist the client in developing and implementing a sound business strategy to:
We help the client identify the agencies that have a stake in the justice system, and establish a governance structure that can drive the vision and strategic thinking about sharing information between and among agencies— despite having different mandates and priorities.
Impact Analysis
To put this strategy into practice, we use our 3D Blueprinting methodology to help the client map the differences between their present state and their desired vision. We help them determine the technology and process barriers, as well as the political roadblocks involved in sharing justice information.
We then create models and other appropriate “artifacts” that describe the client’s organization in terms of business processes, domain entities, stakeholders, users, and customers.
For example, the Business and System Vision Model articulates the client’s vision of how and with whom justice information is shared. For this client, the vision involves sharing justice information among courts, law enforcement and corrections agencies. The model clearly describes the criminal justice domain, the value that the IJIS system brings to the justice community and how IJIS improves the safety of first responders and the general public.
Process Layer
 For integrated justice, the specific points where justice information can be exchanged— between courts, law enforcement and corrections agencies as articulated in the Business and System Vision Model— have significant impact on the business process layer.
By following the flow of a criminal case from arrest to through adjudication and potentially incarceration using industry-standard tools, we can help the client identify the critical exchanges of information, and the systems and events involved in information sharing. By mapping the client’s business processes, we can identify patterns that present opportunities to reduce redundancies and ensure timely delivery of information across this client’s justice enterprise.
Impact Analysis
When discussing the business processes and patterns involved in their justice system, we help the client determine what information is needed for the various functions and where it will come from, and how the systems will interact with each other to exchange that information.
To help the client determine the impact of their business decision on their processes, we use models such as the Business Use-Case Model to articulate situations in which the justice information is accessed, how it is accessed, where the data comes from, and the technical specifications that make the business use-case technically feasible.
For this client, the Business Use-Case Model describes the people within courts, law enforcement and corrections who have access to justice information. Each can access the information from the operational systems in their respective agencies.
Applications Layer
 The 3D Blueprint shows how changing this metropolitan government’s business processes to efficiently deliver justice data in a timely manner affects the applications used to deliver the information. This includes the IJIS solution software designed and developed to implement the business processes.
For this client, we help them identify where information is located so it can be delivered quickly and effectively, according to the use cases that describe the environment.
We can then facilitate the exchange of data from agency foundation systems — such as police records management systems and court case management systems — for distribution or access directly from the IJIS system.
Impact Analysis
Mapping the location of justice information — and creating the necessary mechanisms to deliver it where needed — involves determining how to get the information into the necessary data formats, and how to pull information from legacy systems into a format the other systems can use.
The application layer artifacts guide the entire solution development process. For example, the Design Model describes the specific functionality of the IJIS solution, including automatic “push” and “pull” of information between IJIS and agency foundation systems. It also describes the capability for users to “subscribe” to automatically receive updated information on individuals and cases. This lets them know immediately when a subject re-enters the justice system or when there is another substantive change in legal status. This eliminates the need for redundant data entry into multiple systems.
Infrastructure Layer
 In the mission-critical environment of an IJIS system — where the timely receipt of information keeps a dangerous offender from being released prematurely — system “up-time” and performance are crucial.
The IJIS infrastructure includes an enterprise server platform, as well as the connectivity devices for communicating with justice end users, including wireless and remote devices. In addition, the client’s infrastructure layer includes the security and workflow mechanisms that support information-sharing activities. These elements also include user authentication, since it’s critically important to ensure that only authorized users — whether determined by role or agency — have access to this shared personal data.
Impact Analysis
Because it is the foundation of the client’s IT system, the infrastructure layer is affected by the decisions made in all other areas of the organization. For this client, we help them determine the system resources needed to ensure system availability and reliability 24X7, as well as how to handle user authentication.
Among the artifacts used to blueprint the infrastructure layer is the Infrastructure Strategy, which presents the vision and tactical plan for delivering the solution, the architecture guidelines gleaned from discussions with the client, the operational requirements of the solution, and the required infrastructure skills and capabilities.
Cause-Effect Relationships
After we learn all about your organization — by using our 3D Blueprinting methodology to document the current “as is” state and the desired “to be” state — we can map the relationships between each layer to illustrate the cause and effect relationship between your business decisions and the areas affected by the change.
For example, as the client identifies the vision for moving forward with an integrated justice system, we can show the impact this decision has on the business processes involved in sharing information across the justice enterprise.
Also, as this client addresses the legal barriers to information sharing in a justice environment, it may affect the information exchange processes that can be used. Because we can create models that show the impact of decisions made now on the organization’s future state, the client can see the impact of change before the change is made.
Resulting Solution
3D Blueprinting by Unisys helps the client at every stage of the process of implementing an Integrated Justice Information Sharing (IJIS) solution that offers inter-agency connectivity of IT systems at all government levels, in full compliance with global justice data exchange standards.
The added visibility into the process, application and infrastructure layers provided by 3D Blueprinting also makes it possible for this client to link records, prints, pictures and other documents and make them available across the justice enterprise. Further, it identifies areas in which redundancy can be reduced, and a single data-entry process implemented, greatly reducing errors.
And thanks to the increased visibility into the justice enterprise, the resulting solution facilitates the processes needed to obtain information from existing legacy systems to support IJIS push, pull and subscription capabilities.
Benefits
For this metropolitan government, implementing an Integrated Justice Information Sharing solution using the 3D Blueprinting methodology allows the client to gain traceability through all layers of the organization, from business vision through operations and applications down to the IT systems that support them.
That means that decision-makers can clearly see how the IJIS solution:
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Enhances public safety and homeland security by providing real-time access to justice information that’s reliable, affordable and easy to use — achieving the business strategy and vision of the public sector client.
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Improves the quality of justice by identifying the most critical data, and sharing it according to specific rules and authorization codes — once the new business operations and processes are implemented, and supported by the IT infrastructure that runs it.
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Increases return on investment by eliminating redundant data entry and simplifying the daunting task of mining data from disparate sources — thanks to new applications that help achieve the business vision.
The effects of any future change in strategy, process applications or infrastructure will be traceable across all the layers of the justice enterprise — which means the impact of that change will be visible before the change is made.
The result? Seamless sharing of information at key decision points in the justice process, which gets the right information to the right people all of the time. And the client achieves its goals of improving the quality of justice, enhancing public safety and increasing return on investment.
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