Patriot Data Solutions Group Sets New Automated Data Sharing Benchmark to Help Counter Crime and Terrorism

SAN DIEGO, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patriot Data Solutions Group, Inc. ("PDSG"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PTSC), announced today that it is introducing the next generation of its Crossflo DataExchange® suite that takes bold new steps toward the goal of automating data sharing, accelerating standards-based initiatives, reducing related costs and preserving legacy investments.

The U.S. law enforcement community is a collection of more than 18,000 separate federal, state and local and tribal agencies with independent jurisdictions, governance structures and information systems.  Information sharing strategies have been thwarted by the multiplicity of existing systems and entities, the increasing sophistication of criminal activity and a lack of coordinated efforts to address these barriers at any large scale. The new release of Crossflo DataExchange helps resolve these challenges. New components include:

• CDX ExchangeBuilder - designed to generate NIEM* conforming IEPDs, significantly reducing the cost and time it takes to build IEPDs**.
• CDX Portal – a secure, end-user interface for justice personnel.  Built upon the Global Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM) framework, the CDX Portal enables agencies to control and manage access to an exchange's applications and data services. These data services can include federated queries of information residing in disparate data sources driven by CDX, or services driven by third party applications already owned by agencies.

These new tools perfectly complement PDSG's enterprise-class middleware and data mapping tools to offer a complete data exchange solution suite.  The combination of the new CDX ExchangeBuilder, proven CDX mapping and information exchange platform, and new CDX Portal will enable agencies to meet information sharing challenges from the initial planning stages, through implementation, and throughout the entire life-cycle of the exchange.

"Life-cycle management of IEPDs and information exchanges is a critical part of the process that is often overlooked by customers and other vendors. In the past, the myriad of data definitions, systems and standards requirements has been a challenge for our customers, consuming considerable time and resources, even before any implementation can begin," said Brian Mooney, Sr. VP Operations with PDSG.  "Crossflo DataExchange was specifically designed to address our customers' needs for a more efficient way to share data across jurisdictional boundaries, and achieve the first step toward true data integration automation. It will alleviate the need to have NIEM-specific knowledge and expertise, can reduce the time needed to develop IEPDs by more than 50% and will enable our customers to independently manage and update their IEPDs over time."

The Crossflo DataExchange® is a fully integrated suite of tools, but customers can decide if and when they wish to add individual modules, so an affordable solution can be configured for each client's specific needs. This will enable agencies of different sizes, with different resources, to choose between a tool such as CDX ExchangeBuilder to design IEPDs, a CDX DataExchange base package for a standard exchange, or a CDX DataExchange enterprise solution to enable large scale exchanges incorporating CDX Portal and multiple data services.

About PDSG

Patriot Data Solutions Group, Inc. ("PDSG") provides products and solutions that enable mission-critical applications to significantly accelerate the time to value and reduce total cost of ownership for their data-sharing initiatives.  The company's flagship product, the Crossflo DataExchange® solution, helps link systems together and facilitates secure data sharing for any information exchange initiative in the public safety and criminal justice markets.  The solution has been designed to work directly with a number of national data sharing standards, including NIEM (National Information Exchange Model), and the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) and HL7 (Health Level 7). PDSG also offers Vigilys, a software product that leverages data accessed by CDX and provides a shared, map-based, common operating picture that allows field based first responders and office based emergency managers the ability to visualize incident responses and collaborate in real-time. PDSG's technological innovation is backed by subject matter expertise and proven methodologies, facilitating the rapid exchange of actionable data in mission-critical applications such as clinical quality improvement and emergency services response management.

PDSG has been working with some of the nation's earliest and most innovative data exchange projects including one of the most advanced statewide data-sharing initiatives to be deployed in the United States.  PDSG is the data-sharing group of Patriot Scientific Corporation, which is headquartered in Carlsbad, California (OTC BB:PTSC). For more information on Patriot Data Solutions Group, visit www.pdsg.com.

* The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) was designed to develop, disseminate, and support enterprise-wide information sharing standards and processes across the whole of the justice, public safety, emergency and disaster management, intelligence, and homeland security enterprise at all levels and across all branches of government.

**An IEPD, or Information Exchange Package Documentation, is a specification for a data exchange and defines a particular data exchange. For example, there is an IEPD that defines the information content and structure for an Amber Alert, a bulletin or message sent by law enforcement agencies to announce the suspected abduction of a child.

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SOURCE Patriot Scientific Corporation