SAN FRANCISCO & TOMS RIVER, N.J. - (Business Wire) MuseGlobal, the Smart Connector company and provider of award-winning content integration platforms worldwide, today announced a partnership with Specialty Systems, Inc., a company focusing on innovative information systems solutions to Federal, State and Local Government. Specialty Systems is partnering with MuseGlobal to provide the systems integration expertise to engineer law enforcement and homeland security applications built on MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect, which provides federated search and harvesting technologies, with a growing library of more than 6,000 source connectors.
Applications resulting from this partnership will incorporate a new breed of unified information access, integrating search results on one platform. Structured data from database sources; semi-structured data from spreadsheets, forms and XML sources; unstructured data from web sites, documents, email; and rich media such as images, video and audio information is accessed simultaneously from internal databases and external sources. This information is gathered on the fly, and unified for immediate presentation to the requestor.
These applications will give law enforcement agencies and intelligence personnel the most current information available to maximize public safety. The products and services resulting from this partnership will deliver a substantial improvement in the capability of any law enforcement and homeland security agency to proactively analyze and anticipate risks to the public.
Emil Kaunitz, CEO of Specialty Systems stated: “We at Specialty Systems look forward to working closely with local and state law enforcement, emergency management and homeland security organizations to empower their personnel with the information which maximizes their effectiveness. The combination of Specialty Systems and MuseGlobal in working with these organizations will deliver a new class of capability which helps enable their efforts to keep us safe.”
Specialty Systems has a 30 year history providing solutions for state and local government, which include systems for county sheriff’s processing, criminal evidence tracking, temporary restraining orders, fire inspection, code enforcement, case management, and others which enable agencies to deliver improved services to their constituencies at increased speed and substantially reduced cost. MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect, combined with Specialty Systems’ systems integration expertise will deliver a quantum improvement in searching both internal and external information through federated and harvesting technologies – serving the full spectrum of agencies from local police departments to federal intelligence specialists – all of whom contribute to our safety.
“We recognized an opportunity to extend the reach of Specialty Systems to include a range of targeted, industry-specific data repositories and external services,” said Thomas Gensch, Executive Vice President, MuseGlobal. “With MuseGlobal’s MuseConnect for Specialty Systems we’ve made more data readily accessible, therefore providing best of breed products to Federal, State and Local agencies.”
About Specialty Systems, Inc.
Specialty Systems, Inc. (SSI) is a systems integration company located in Toms River, NJ. Founded in 1978, the company has over 30 years of government and corporate experience, including system and software engineering for State, Local and Federal government systems for public safety, command/control/communications/ intelligence (C3I), and systems supporting law enforcement and legal processes. Specialty Systems supports customer systems throughout their life cycle and partners with Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and EMC.
About MuseGlobal, Inc.
MuseGlobal sets the standard for Smart Connectors with its library of 6000+ connectors, and with content integration, harvesting and federation technologies. The MuseGlobal technology platform enables organizations worldwide to build outstanding products and services, unifying the widest range of content sources into high performance and reliable solutions. It supports multiple platforms and offers a wide range of interoperability options, as well as robust toolkits that ease customization, implementation, maintenance and administration. MuseGlobal partners with today’s most sophisticated integrators, enterprise software companies, publishers, technology companies and online services.
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