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Ontario Systems, a provider of software and technology that helps government, health care and corporate clients recover owed revenue, has announced it has acquired court case management software provider Justice Systems for an undisclosed amount.

Under the terms of the acquisition, Justice Systems Inc. will continue to offer its products and operate under its own brand as an entity under Ontario Systems. The C-suite at Justice Systems, including its co-founder and CEO Ernie Sego, will continue at the helm of the company.

Jay Moorman, vice president of client services at Ontario Systems, noted that his company agreed to acquire Justice Systems after being approached by Sego about the idea. The impetus behind the acquisition, he added, was in large part because Justice Systems' court technology products are complementary to Ontario Systems' own court offerings. “Had that fit not been there from the technology standpoint, we would not have been interested,” Moorman explained.

While Ontario Systems offers local and state courts a revenue collection management and automation product called RevQ, Justice Systems offers case management and processing tools.

When used together, the two companies' offerings can meet all of a court's workflow and management needs, Moorman said. “Justice Systems is on the front end of the court so they are managing cases and processes, and once they get to the point where they need workflow to manage the outcome of those cases, the RevQ product can step in and manage the workflow and collection of money.”

Products from both Ontario Systems and Justice Systems can be both deployed on premise or via the cloud. But since the products serve only local and state clients, and not federal ones, they won't be certificated under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Ontario Systems, however, does provide revenue management offerings specifically for federal clients that are FedRAMP certified.

To be sure, Justice Systems and Ontario Systems are far from the only ones teaming up to serve government clients. The acquisition, for instance, comes just weeks after data governance and e-discovery company Smarsh Inc. and NextRequest Co., a provider of processing software for public records, also announced a partnership to bundle their software solutions for local, state and federal clients.

What's more, other legal technologies are finding success selling their solutions to local and state judiciaries and legal organizations. In early 2017, for instance, Tyler Technologies Inc. entered into a partnership with the State Bar of California to provide the association with access to its case management systems. Two years prior, the company also helped state courts in Texas roll out an electronic court filing system.