In order for public administrations to be able to cope with their workloads, increasingly complex process chains that cut across departmental boundaries and administrative levels are needed. For example, public authorities ranging from local district administrations to the various states and the Federal Office of Administration are linked into Germany’s National Arms Register (NWR). At each of these diverse administrative levels, data is collected, processed further, and retrieved for control purposes. The national electronic register (EER) works similarly. Here data pertaining to long-haul freight transport is maintained by the authorizing bodies in the various German states and reported to a central information system for the EU states through a national gateway at German federal level.
This increasing integration of administrative processes requires stronger networking between the supporting IT systems. A number of special challenges arises during the development of such systems:
- The administrative processes must be defined precisely and their definitions finalized in consultation with multiple authorities.
- When use cases are defined, the various organizational structures of the authorities involved must be taken into account.
- Process-independent standards from the XÖV Framework (XML in public administration) must be used for data exchange.
- Efficient process control – on both a functional and technical level – requires the use of service-oriented architectures (SOA).
- The spatial distribution of administrative processes requires powerful and reliable network infrastructures.
We assist public authorities in designing and developing networked application landscapes. Our range of associated services includes:
- Development of process-independent enterprise architectures for distributed application systems
- Analysis of the functional requirements for inter-authority processes
- Heading inter-authority project groups such as federal development alliances
- Migration and integration of existing systems in process-independent enterprise architectures
- Management of process-independent system tests for verifying networked functionality
