Derby City Council Selects VisionWare's Silver ContactPoint Adaptor

6 April 2010

VisionWare Ltd, a leading provider of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, today announced that Derby City Council has selected their Silver ContactPoint Adaptor for its childrens database.

The council will be using the Adaptor, part of the VisionWare ContactPoint Adaptor Framework, to meet their requirements for the management and transmission of data to the national ContactPoint children's database.  As part of these requirements, Derby were specifically looking for an adaptor that would address the following:

• Accommodate multiple data feeds from across partner organisations.
• Provide flexibility for data feeds to be managed either centrally by the local authority or by partner organisations.
• Provide a user-friendly solution that requires minimal administrative overheads.
• Enable the authority and partners to effectively prepare and manage data through the upload process.

VisionWare's ContactPoint Adaptor Framework offers two solutions to organisations and their partners connecting to ContactPoint, with incremental functionality depending on the methodology they wish to adopt.  These options have been designated as Silver and Platinum versions, and each will seamlessly connect and supply data to ContactPoint in the approved file format.

VisionWare's Silver ContactPoint Adaptor transforms the data from native format into the required format and sends it to ContactPoint, whilst the Platinum option also provides Local Authorities and their partner agencies with a Local Children's Data Hub containing a "best view" of children's data.

With each version of the Adaptor, VisionWare provides a Data Analysis and Profiling Application to identify and highlight inconsistencies within the datasets, a Transformation Engine to transform source system data into the ContactPoint schema, a ContactPoint Adaptor to validate messages prior to sending to ContactPoint, and a ContactPoint Gateway to store all messages sent to ContactPoint along with any responses.  In addition, an Administration Console is provided to schedule actions and update system settings and for viewing and filtering discrepancy reports and stop notices, along with a ContactPoint Web Viewer to view information held on the National ContactPoint system.

Willie Clinton of VisionWare, commented "Derby City Council had a number of prerequisites that their chosen adaptor had to meet.  Our Silver ContactPoint Adaptor is fully Type Accredited and has been developed in partnership with our customers.  It is for this reason that we were able to present Derby with a solution that would fit with their needs.  We look forward to working with them on this project."

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