The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has joined hands with Microsoft to launch an ambitious plan for development of a high-tech performance management system.

The new system, on par with latest international best practices, will be designed by Microsoft Consulting Services and is specifically tailored to meet the requirements of the department, said a ADJD official.

This is in line with ADJD’s five-year strategic plan and it aims at accelerating its pace towards a 21st century judicial system in the emirate, Sultan Al Badi, undersecretary of ADJD explained.

'The new system will enhance ADJD's ability to track and monitor key initiatives based on performance measures. Moreover, it will provide a tool for measuring initiatives against ADJD’s strategic goals and objectives to understand and analyze its progress.'

Al Badi said the system will analyse and extract data from many layers of sources for accountability, decision support, and performance reporting.

'It will be designed to translate raw data into insightful information to track progress and most importantly improve ADJD staffs' ability to embrace change. Training courses will be conducted for PM System users on the tools used to track progress and identify achievements.' he noted.

Being a key driver in the modernization and restructuring effort of the ADJD, the proposed performance management system will help ADJD define performance measures, monitor, evaluate and make recommendations.

'The ADJD is engaged in a restructuring effort that aims to create a more efficient, open and modern judiciary for the emirate. Under the leadership of Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, minister of presidential affairs and chairman of ADJD, we want to deliver best in class services to court users while creating a productive, merit-based and rewarding work environment for ADJD employees,' Al Badi added.

Ihab Foudeh, Enterprise Group director, Microsoft Gulf said the Abu Dhabi government had been a visionary in the development of technology infrastructure across various government entities.

'Microsoft is pleased to partner with the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department to design a performance management system that will increase efficiency and effectiveness across the organization, he commented.

In addition, the new solution will be designed to provide all the functionality that is needed for performance management including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, and consolidation.-TradeArabia News Service