Government ICT Project Goes Live Early and On Budget

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAs well as providing the underlying CQCS software,
Government ICT Project Goes Live Early and OnCyberscience provided consultancy, certain project
Budgetmanagement elements and the configuration and
HODDESDON, London, UK, - January 26, 2006provision of appropriate Dell hardware including a hot
(Cyberscience plc)standby server and replication facility.
The Public Guardianship Office (PGO) based in NorthThe online response time has exceeded all of the
London, a part of the Department for ConstitutionalPGO's expectations with 350 concurrent users against
Affairs (DCA) in England and Wales, manages thethe previous limit of 50. Overnight batch processing
assets and income of over 25,000 citizens who areand reporting which previously took up to 4 hours on
unable through mental or other incapacity to managethe old system is now completed in less than 5
their own affairs.minutes! This includes batch updates to the database,
The PGO recently conducted an upgrade of theirthe extraction of a large amount of data to interface
computer systems with Liberata, the DCA's IT PFIwith other systems and the production of all the
partner. As part of this programme, CyberscienceCASREC reports.
were asked in late 2004 to provide the smoothestBy leveraging their existing investment in
upgrade path for the Case Records (CASREC)Cyberscience technology, the PGO is able to provide
system running on soon to be obsolete Data Generala superior solution with an enhanced GUI user
hardware first installed in 1987 with applicationsinterface, and offer a better service to its users and
developed in-house, to a modern system running onultimately its clients.
Dell servers.To learn more call +44 (0) 1992 441111 or e-mail
The original CASREC system was written by DCAAbout Cyberscience
staff, using CQCS from Cyberscience and had grownCyberscience Corporation is a privately held software
into a complex mission critical system supportingdeveloper focused on delivering reporting, business
nearly 350 civil servants handling a very large caseintelligence, dashboard and rapid application
load. The new system had to be implementeddevelopment solutions to over 4,000 customers
without any interruption and minimum change to theworldwide. Since 1977, our solutions have addressed
working practices followed by the staff at the PGO.the needs of all information users, from business
Cyberscience CQCS has been continuously developedanalysts to senior executives; from power users to
over the last 25 years to be platform and databaseapplication developers.
independent, and to offer superior speed ofCyberscience is a global solutions provider, with
development with exceptional performance andoffices in North America, Europe, and Australia.
scalability. CQCS consists of two closely relatedFor further information see Cyberscience Report
applications - Cyberscreen the rapid applicationWriting and Business Intelligence
development language and Cyberquery the mostAbout Liberata
advanced Reporting and Business Intelligence solutionLiberata plc ( is one of the UK's leading providers of
for any application database.outsourced business processes, liberating clients and
Rather than develop a completely new system fromemployees, creating exceptional opportunities both
scratch with all the attendant delays and problemsfor them and shareholders.
associated with large projects, the PGO tookThrough its driven leadership and intense
advantage of the benefits of the applicationperformance environment, Liberata transforms
portability that is a fundamental part of theoperations, reducing the cost of in-house services
Cyberscience CQCS product. The implementation wasand delivering greater efficiency and effectiveness
achieved ahead of time, on budget and included as athrough its six-sigma methodology, allowing clients to
bonus, the automation of several back officefocus on their core activities.
processes to provide a turnkey solution.Liberata is a Sunday Times Top Track 250 Company.