Hart Data Resolver Application (HDRA)

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2009

The Hart Data Resolver Application (HDRA) is part of the Enterprise Service Bus they are developing in Jefferson County. HDRA works in conjunction with their Encoded Data Object Repository system. The HDRA application accomplishes matching of parcel identification numbers and property schedule numbers to a property based on relevant legal data from an officially recorded legal property document. This is accomplished via several algorithms they have designed and developed at Jefferson County. Legally recorded property documents need to be matched up to their proper PIN and schedule number. Before HDRA, this was accomplished through a process whereas an employee had to manually search for the matching PIN based on information provided off of the legal document. Not every piece of relevant property information was always present in the legal document. Many hours could potentially be, and often times was, spent by an employee searching for the proper PIN match for a single piece of property. When HDRA was put in production, the time savings of matching PINs to the correct parcels was so effective Jefferson County was able to reallocate one FTE to another job capacity. The HDRA system is exemplary because of the cost and time savings it has created for the county, its use of existing enterprise data, and the innovative algorithms used in improving efficiencies across a multi-department environment.