Tyler Technologies Launches "Tyler Alliance" Initiative to Deliver Distributed Public Safety and Justice Platform

Decades of public sector experience coupled with strategic acquisitions and investments in existing solutions enabled Tyler to create an unparalleled opportunity to meet the needs of public safety and criminal justice agencies. Tyler Alliance will let the public safety and judicial ecosystem, including dispatchers, law enforcement, courts and corrections staff, easily exchange data and share access to best-of-breed solutions that deliver on the comprehensive Tyler Alliance focus � from initial dispatch through final disposition of a case.

"We created Tyler Alliance because we believe it's critical that public safety and criminal justice data be free-flowing, easily shared and always accessible by different departments, courts and agencies within and across jurisdictions," said Bruce Graham, Tyler's chief strategy officer. "Tyler Alliance will network public safety and justice communities like never before, making them stronger individually and collectively as a network. Tyler Alliance also gives agencies the flexibility to choose solutions they want, while giving them vast amounts of cross-departmental and cross-jurisdictional data that can help interdict, and even predict, crime while helping to ensure efficient judicial proceedings."

Core components of Tyler Alliance include:

• Tyler's Odyssey® integrated court case management solution, which includes Tyler's e-filing application. In total, Odyssey serves more than 100 million residents, a third of the U.S. population, in more than 600 counties across 21 states, including several statewide installations. Tyler expects that users will make 19 million electronic court filings with Odyssey in 2016.
• Tyler's New World™ public safety solution, a comprehensive public safety suite for dispatch centers, police officers, firefighters, paramedics, corrections officers, command staff, and first responders; it became part of Tyler's product suite with the acquisition of New World Systems Corporation in 2015.
• Tyler's Brazos™, an electronic citation solution that allows patrol officers in the field to easily enter citation information that is automatically uploaded to the department's central system, joined Tyler's public safety product suite via the acquisition of Brazos Technology Corporation in 2015.
• Tyler Public Safety™ (TPS) software helps manage essential, day-to-day public safety functions, including computer aided dispatch and records management. TPS is also available via an iPad® app, giving first responders a highly mobile and feature-rich way to access TPS. This approach also saves taxpayer dollars because iPads cost less than ruggedized laptops traditionally used by first responders.
• Tyler's Incode® municipal court software helps court administrators and clerks handle a wide range of tasks from the routine to the highly complex, including case management, document processing, cash-bond management, and probation tracking. As part of Tyler Alliance, Incode is the vital junction between local municipal courts and countywide or even regional courts.
• Tyler's SoftCode™ is a comprehensive yet flexible civil process software suite that enables departments to execute civil processing more effectively and efficiently, saving time and resources.

"Tyler has always looked at public safety and judicial solutions through our clients' eyes. Every day we ask how our technology can be better, and how we can further enable police chiefs, sheriffs, officers, jailers, judges and clerks to better serve their constituents," said Bret Dixon, president of Tyler's Justice Group. "Tyler Alliance grew from our first-hand experience that when the chips are down, public safety officers and the justice community stand side by side to safeguard the communities they're sworn to serve. Our goal is to give them the technology to instantly translate massive amounts of data into discrete actions that can save taxpayer dollars, time and even lives."

Tyler will continue to add new functionality to the Tyler Alliance platform over time that will complement existing public safety and criminal justice solutions.

"Only Tyler has the resources and passion to create and implement a long-term vision like Tyler Alliance, and we will provide a distributed platform that lets agencies turn data into rapidly actionable information, which makes individual agencies much stronger than they would be on their own," said Graham. "We also know every agency, court and jurisdiction is unique, so improvements will be incremental and over time. The key is to make measured and lasting improvements that help the public safety and judicial communities work more efficiently and safely while protecting the communities they all serve."

Tyler Alliance was introduced to New World clients at its user conference in Phoenix this week, and will be shared with Tyler clients at the Connect 2016 user conference, also in Phoenix, May 1-4, where Tyler will welcome approximately 3,000 clients across all solution areas.