Department: Universal Services
Department Head: Sindhu Menon, Executive Director & County CIO
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Supplemental RCA
Type of Request: Investment Memo
Investment Memo Type: Preliminary Investment Memo
Project Name: JWEB Modernization
Project ID (if applicable):
Vendor Legal Name (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Achievement (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Managing Entity: Universal Services
Incremental Authorization Requested: $1,500,000
Total Estimated Project Cost: TBD
Request Summary:
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Request by Universal Services for approval of the Preliminary Investment Memo for modernization of Integrated Justice Information System (JWEB) for an initial authorization of $1,500,000.
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Project Description:
Software applications have a defined shelf life. Technology and development methodologies change over time to improve reliability, capabilities and efficiencies. In particular, JWEB, an in-house collection of custom developed software, originally designed in the 1990's is becoming obsolete as the underlying technology becomes obsolete and laws, policies and business practices change so much that the software becomes extremely difficult and complicated to support and maintain. The system outages related to JWEB are frequent and have caused multiple challenges to public safety and other justice related services. The architecture is outdated and needs to be updated as soon as possible to meet the demands of stakeholders.
The modernization project is expected to be completed in phases. For FY25 the focus will be on project startup activities for JWEB modernization, including but not limited to designing, architecting, and business process development of an upgraded version of JWEB.
Project Scope:
JWEB is a collection of in-house developed software programs that support our justice community (District Attorney'...
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