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Westchester County Government Selects Haley Systems' Natural Language Business Rules Suite
New York County Deploying Business Rules to Help Drive Applications for Assisting with Emergency Preparedness, Homeless
Pittsburgh, PA - May 2, 2005 - Haley Systems, Inc., the technology leader in business rules management systems, today announced that the Haley Business Rules Management Suite has been selected by Westchester County in New York to develop a rules service architecture for supporting multiple applications to improve government efficiency, make services and information more accessible to the public, and improve public safety in the county.
With its county seat in White Plains, NY, Westchester County is located within the New York City metropolitan area and serves approximately 925,000 county residents. Westchester County's Department of Information Technology (DoIT) oversees the county's use of existing and emerging technologies in government operations, and its delivery of services to the public.
"We seek technology solutions that transcend departmental divisions and satisfy the needs of our organization as whole," said Westchester County's Chief Information Officer Dr. Norman Jacknis. "Haley's business rules service will enable us to do just that. This initiative is consistent with our multi-tiered approach to software development and our objective of externalizing the capture and management of business logic."
While Jacknis foresees multiple ways to leverage a rules service infrastructure across county IT initiatives, two projects are already underway. The first project supports the community response plan for the Indian Point nuclear power plant and will use Westchester County's rules server to automate an emergency advisory application that will alert officials of incidents and recommend appropriate responses. The second project will support an automated reservations system to help County case workers more efficiently find appropriate shelter for individuals that find themselves homeless due to emergency or chronic situations.
"We selected Haley Systems for multiple reasons," continued Dr. Jacknis, who was recently listed among Government Technology's "Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers" of 2005. "Haley is the only business rules management system with the natural language understanding that enables county managers making decisions to capture and manage business logic themselves using plain English rather than programming code. That gives them more control, and it also reduces the burden on our IT resources, freeing them up to tackle other priorities."
"Leading organizations in both the public and private sectors are realizing that business rules management provides a level of control and flexibility that is impossible when business rules are embedded in custom applications," said Mark Juliano, president and CEO of Haley Systems, Inc. "A business rules services infrastructure is a cost effective, scalable solution that will increase efficiency across multiple applications and county initiatives. By choosing Haley, the users of various Westchester County applications will have the accessibility they need to respond to change scenarios rapidly, without the time and expense of IT programmer intervention."