Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database ManagementSystem, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.
The master model will likely be much more like a master data managementsystem or a complex of federated queries that extract data that then may be used in a data mart for special purposes.
For example, the model of social brainstorming, also referred to as ideagoras or idea management, you create an open online system to involve all the people that you may like to draw from a specific target population, provide some topics to structure discussion and then allow them to debate, rate and rank the best ideas.