Standards-based Technologies XML and Web Services Publish-Subscribe Model

Industry XSD (GJXDM, NIEM, etc.) Secure Communications Web-based Interface

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The Crossflo DataExchange™ (CDX) Server provides an innovative, cross agency, data-sharing platform using Extensible Markup Language (XML) and other standards-based technologies. Through an intuitive interface, users create XML-based publications from disparate data sources, and make those publications available securely to authorized subscribers. Sharing data with Crossflo DataExchange is designed to allow most agencies to start sharing data within a matter of days or weeks, versus the months or years it takes with other solutions. Data can be shared inter-agency or intra-agency.

The CDX Server is accessed via a web-based interface used to define publications and subscriptions, and includes a powerful data-transformation mapper. The mapper offers an intuitive "drag and drop" interface, a set of industry-specific transformation objects, the ability to connect to web services, and powerful features for exporting data into Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) applications. The mapper is also available in a standalone configuration, the DataExchange Agent. CDX supports both federated (pull) and scheduled and triggered (push) message exchanges.

The CDX Server also provides a repository for XML Schema Definitions (XSDs), a flexible and extensible auditing and notification facility, and a user authentication system that can be integrated with other user directories, such as LDAP. By providing technologies like secure sockets layer (SSL), publication and element-level encryption, and “Strong Security Policies", the CDX Server offers a range of security provisions. The Server is accessed using contemporary web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. CDX is constructed as a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) with an Application Programming Interface (API) (DataExchange SOA) to promote its integration with other systems. The CDX Server is available in standard, industrial strength, J2EE containers, as well as a smaller footprint stack utilizing the Tomcat web server and the Hypersonic database.

Whether an agency needs to share data in an industry standard schema like the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), or whether it will be using its own custom schemas, the CDX Server is the ideal solution for the job. CDX Servers and Agents can be architected in a variety of configurations to implement robust, cross agency, data-sharing networks.

The CDX Server and Mapper also includes GJXDM/NIEM specific functionality -- such as unique transformation objects and Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) integration -- for efficiently working with these national data-sharing models. To speed our product deployment, we provide Consulting Services, offering our customers access to our trained data-integration experts across specialized areas such as Integrated Justice, Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), and Public Health. Additionally for Integrated Justice initiatives, we offer specialized IEPD Development and Training.