Government Solution

Criminal Justice Solution

Highlights

GTC's 2006 Best Solutions Award Criminal Justice Solution from Novell selected to receive GTC's 2006 Best Solutions Award

Overview

Novell's Criminal Justice Information Gateway enables government agencies to effectively secure and manage the increasingly complex data requirements of the criminal justice community. The wide range of disparate systems containing "need to know" information, and the requirement to access information remotely is creating new challenges for government organizations. Leveraging Novell's portal, access and identity management solutions governments can quickly provide secure and convenient access to criminal justice information across the organization and across agency boundaries.

Novell's Criminal Justice Information Gateway leverages both identity management technologies and integration tools to effectively connect disparate applications and back-end systems and deliver information to law enforcement personnel at the right time and right place. This solution ensures fast, secure, convenient access to key criminal justice community applications. By supporting open standards, this solution is also very flexible making it easy to embrace and integrate existing hardware and software investments. Key features and benefits of the Novell solution include:

• Sharing information securely across agency and jurisdictional boundaries
• Web enable legacy platforms and integrate disparate information sources using open standards
• Strong authentication methods, for example, token, smart card, PKI and biometrics to protect data
• Single Sign-On access to criminal justice community applications
• Cross-platform support for main frame, fat/thin client, and Web applications
• Centralized management of passwords and user IDs
• Ability to distribute and delegate user administration to trusted external jurisdictions
• Support for multiple devices, including wireless, PCs, laptops, and PDAs
• A personalized web based view of criminal justice applications
• Secure, remote access without the need to use a VPN

Resources

• Swedish National Police Board
• Novell Criminal Justice solution brief
• Gartner Research Note
• Michigan State Police Case Study
• Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway
• Customer Testimonial Video
• Government Technology Solution Spotlight
• View Webcast featuring Michigan State Police

Contact

Contact your local Novell Solutions Provider or call 1-800-583-2900 for more information about Novell's Criminal Justice Solutions.