**Connecticut State Police COLLECT System **
Business Objective: Connecticut State Police wanted to modernize their criminal records system, giving officers better access to information and replacing the existing mainframe solution to save costs.
Technical Challenges:
- Handling 1.25 million transactions a month in a high availability environment; front end required to scale to 1500 simultaneous users
- Integration with a dozen systems in state and across the nation
- Coordinating and displaying multiple asynchronous responses from these systems
- Implementation of GJXDM, a Justice Department standard for XML message interchange
Technical Solution: Implementation of a Advanced Technology Systems XMR, a central message switch using web services and XML-based translation implemented in .NET. On the front end, an ASP application was modified to handle generation of multiple inquiries and display of results. Parsing of results for subsequent query is done in the client applications web service.