WHAT'S NEW

DCA has been awarded Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status in recognition of the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies in the following areas:

PinForce City Wide has been launched with the release of PinForce version 4.0.

PinForce City Wide is a new PinForce module that has been designed for Councils or organisations who use manual or partly automated processes in the field for issuing compliance notices or carrying out health, building or planning inspections.

PinForce City Wide is a mobile solution that runs on Tablet PCs and, like PinForce Mobile, is fully integrated with PinForce Manager.

At the Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2009) in Canberra in August 2009, DCA participated in the IHE Interoperability Showcase, demonstrating interconnectivity between DCA’s tcm 7 products and those of other vendors. The Showcase was sponsored by the Integrating the HealthCare Enterprise (IHE) organisation.

The live demonstrations to conference attendees showed:

• electronic referrals being received by, and sent from, DCA’s tcm 7client management system to and from participating vendor products, using HL7 RefI12 and XML message formats
• realtime synchronisation of the tcm 7 provider tables with the Victorian Human Services directory (HSD)
• a prototype e-referral gateway developed by DCA to manage the distribution of referral messages from tcm 7 to various GP software products
• demonstration of a secure SCTT referral being sent from tcm 7 and then translated by ConnectingCare into a secure email.
  
  

DCA scores 93.70% for customer satisfaction in the 2009 Australian Achiever Awards for Victoria's Computer Systems and Software Services category.

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The Data Moderation Project was established by the Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand (DIA) to fulfil a legal requirement for the BDM Registry to match death records with the appropriate birth record.

In order to meet the responsibilities of this project DIA BDM was charged with the resolution and delivery of a new business process that required definition and implementation to allow the matching of as many death to birth records as is practically possible. This was to incorporate the use of data and images.

This process was to utilise approximately 8 million records across the New Zealand Births and Deaths registries.

DCA has been engaged to provide its specialised data cleansing, enhancing and matching services using its Nirvana software. The software is required to process the birth and death registry data using customised algorithms developed in conjunction with DIA to meet the varying requirements and specific personal nature of the data. DCA’s Nirvana software provides a solution that is able to process these large data sets, with the flexibility to predefine and change at will, algorithms to allow for varying data conditions based on the nature of the initial data capture.

DCA’s deduplication technology has been recognised by the DIA as critical to helping them improve the integrity and quality of the record matches previously unidentified. In addition to this a DIA team leader has stated that a component of the DCA pre-processed data has been shown to be twice as effective, doubling the productivity of DIA staff working with this information.

Engineers Australia is the largest and most diverse professional body for engineers in Australia. Its members embrace all disciplines of the engineering profession.

With a contact database in excess of 85,000 members, the National and Division offices of Engineers Australia regularly communicates to its members at different times during the year by mail, phone and email. Like all quality organisations Engineers Australia is well aware of the financial benefits achieved in maintaining a high quality data source that is accurate, current and privacy compliant.

With this in mind in June of 2009 Engineers Australia engaged DCA's outbound call centre to confirm and/or update member contact information including privacy consent details.

The final results of this campaign will see Engineers Australia with an up-to-date database resulting in more effective communication with its members with significant cost savings.

DCA has been notified by the Department of Treasury and Finance that we have been successful in our bid for inclusion on the Whole of Victorian Government (WoVG) eServices Panel - Specialist Services.

The benefits for DCA include:

• Government departments implementing smaller projects can engage directly with DCA
• DCA can be invited to bid for larger projects using an RFQ process
• Procurement through the eServices panel is normally quicker than other procurement processes
• Corporate, financial, and capability information is held centrally by the eServices panel administration separately to the procurement process.

Due to the significant and rapid growth and scope of the PinForce products, PinForce now has it's own dedicated website - www.pinforce.com.au.

The PinForce website contains major improvements to the content, design and navigation to:

• make it easier for you to learn about PinForce
• help you find the information you need
• provide up-to-date information in line with the rapid advances that are continually being made to PinForce.
  

DCA are pleased to announce availability for shipment of the new tcm 7. This first public release of the service delivery management software for aged and community care is the culmination of more two years work by DCA’s product team and in-house programmers. This wasn’t just another “upgrade”. The project has involved  converting the functionality available in the existing The Care Manager software to a completely new programming platform.

As part of the growing PinForce offering, DCA are proud to offer a state-of-the-art mobile License Plate Recognition (LPR) system, called PinForce LPR. 

A vehicle-mounted LPR system is the logical progression for integrated infringement management. Mobile LPR systems offer the parking industry a wide range of benefits, especially those with small pockets of high parking problem areas across large geographies.PinForce LPR combined with PinForce Sentinel, DCA’s in ground sensor product, complement and integrate with each other to provide a total solution for organisational needs.

DCA would like to welcome Pittwater City Council as the latest NSW SDRO PinForce client to select DCA's highly successful PinForce infringement issuing solution. Pittwater will be DCA's first client in NSW to utilise the Bluebird integrated printer device.

Pittwater continues the trend of DCA being selected in NSW with a 96% success rate, with over 45 Local Government Councils representing more than 600 enforcement officers in NSW. Features such as integrated OSR infringements reconciliation, extensive financial reporting, high resolution cameras and user customisable report capabilities are some of the differences many clients select DCA, and now DCA also offer a smart all in one integrated printer PDA device solution.

DCA will soon release an internet based version of Subs Plus, which is ideal for smaller publishers that may not necessarily have IT support in-house or are struggling to comply with payment card industry rules. Advantages of this set-up are:

• DCA will host the data and will take care of regular back-ups, the security of the data, and upgrade and maintenance of the software
  
• the publisher is able to access the data and run a set of reports from any location (with internet access) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• the publisher is able to extract the data for a magazine dispatch, renewal letter run, merchandise order run, or DM campaign at any time
• the publisher will have access to the broad functionality of Subs Plus
• this solution is PCI compliant

If you are interested in the Subs Plus software or in the internet based version of Subs Plus and would like to be kept updated on this you can:

• call us on 61 2 8877 0351
• send an email to: subsplussales@data.com.au

PinForce Sentinel allows Management and Planners to measure and manage precious parking resources by providing the ability to:

• Automatically alert Officers of infringing vehicles
• Issue Parking Infringements & Warnings
• Measure & manage Parking Utilisation, Turnover, Occupancy, Possible vs Actual PINS
• Achieve tangible productivity gains
• Provide real data for Parking Policy Development
• Address OH&S issues

DCA have seven sites using or trialling our sensors in Australasia, New Zealand and USA, including two capital cities. Furthermore, following a thorough public tender, DCA has won a contract to supply 500 sensors to an Australian Local Government Authority.

These recent announcements, along with DCA’s other new product’s PinForce City Wide and PinForce LPR reinforce DCA's position as the industry leader in supplying innovative, cost efficient technology to the parking industry. It also demonstrates client satisfaction with DCA’s strong customer support programme and DCA’s continual delivery of new innovation into the industry.

DCA is proud to announce a partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong in Victoria to assist in designing PinForce CityWide, a mobile software solution that services and manages virtually all of the field enforcement/compliance functions of local government.

The Computer Training Room and Board Room at DCA's North Sydney office is now available for hire at very competitive rates. For more information click here.