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| Illinois Department of Corrections Heads to the Cloud |
| By govtech.com - Brian Heaton |
| Published: 03/01/2013 |
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The days of prisoner and parolee data being shackled to an outdated mainframe system are almost over in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) is in the midst of implementing Offender360, a cloud-based inmate tracking and management system. The first phase of the transition should be finished in June. Most offender records should be fully transferred to the new system in about a year. Offender360 is a product from Tribridge, an IT services and business consulting firm. The system is built on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online platform. In an interview with Government Technology, Gladyse Taylor, assistant director of the DOC, said the mainframe will continue to serve as the DOC’s primary repository for inmate information for a while. But that data is now being migrated to the Offender360 environment in a “read-only” state, so users can start to get familiar with the new system before it goes live. Approximately 40 percent of the information the DOC uses regularly has been integrated into Offender360 so far . Read More. |
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