AuthentiDate partner ALPHA COM realizes eGovernment signature projects for Berlin authorities
Successful launch of mass digitization with signature
Düsseldorf, Berlin – Dezember 2, 2008
Berlin’s authorities have now taken a further step in enhancing their range of eGovernment facilities by starting the required mass digitalization of paper documents with ALPHA COM. The service provider uses the signature technologies of its partner, AuthentiDate, to protect digitized documents.
Anyone who registers a new car in Berlin, or who has wider wheel rims entered into their vehicle logbook, automatically ends up with ALPHA COM. The document management specialists will digitize this document plus all transactions of the vehicle licensing authority in Berlin, so that the staff of this facility can now work predominantly with digital material. The contract covers a capacity of over 20 million pages of data per year.
In all, about 200 million pages have been planned for all authorities in the capital within the next four years. Following a tender, the relevant master agreement was concluded between the IT Service Centre in Berlin (ITDZ Berlin) and ALPHA COM in the fall of 2007.
ITDZ Berlin is the central IT service provider for Berlin’s administration and responsible for the development of a comprehensive eGovernment suite for the German capital. However, to make full use of the benefits of online management and an electronic filing system, all analog data first needs to be migrated. The vehicle licensing authority is serving as a pilot project in setting up, testing and establishing mass digitization as a general service.
Technical requirements
"The new service was developed with ALPHA COM through intensive and solution-focused collaboration," said Konrad Kandziora, Managing Director of ITDZ Berlin. "Flexible arrangements were also possible for time management. This is important in pilot projects where many questions do not come up until the implementation stage." It is well worth it, however, as the service will also be used by other units in Berlin. Berlin’s Registry Office No. 1, the Immigration Authority and the Family Court are already in the queue.
"It’s a sophisticated project for a number of reasons," said Michael Schakols, Branch Manager at ALPHA COM in Berlin. "We will need to convert a whole range of heterogeneous IT landscapes and specific technical applications to this standardized service platform. The key to success is web applications and shared service-oriented architecture models (SOA) for the necessary interfaces."
Details of the facility
The ALPHA COM production unit in Berlin employs about a hundred people, who process up to 300,000 documents per day. After Hamburg, Berlin is the Group’s second biggest facility, offering the full line-up of document management services.
The biggest customers of the Berlin facility are ITDZ Berlin, the German Drugs Institute, Alba and various banks and insurance companies, such as the IDEAL Group.
About the ALPHA COM Group
The service company and systems trader has operated in optical and digital storage of documents, data and graphics for more than 30 years. Headquartered in Hamburg, the group employs over 600 people at ten German facilities. Further operations are planned for Austria and Switzerland. ALPHA COM Deutschland GmbH is media-independent in its approach and handles the storage of documents and data on CDs, DVDs, hard drives, WORM media and microfilm. The service provider also has its own document-focused electronic archiving and transaction processing systems, which it runs in three shifts, processing over 1 million documents per day. The services of ALPHA COM are used by over 3,000 customers for incoming mail as well as for archiving, duplication and distribution of information. The ALPHA COM Consulting Division advises its customers on the use of complex computer-aided storage systems, develops alternative solutions and supports reorganization activities. ALPHA COM Sachsen GmbH also serves as a competence centre for archiving, library and publishing services, both nationally and internationally, producing backup films for the purposes of asset security. It also offers careful digitization of large-format books using scanners equipped with special book holders, including any post-processing that may be required (e.g. eliminating distortions caused by book curvatures, the formation of cutouts and page separation). ALPHA COM Dokumenten Service Center GmbH specializes in information-based business routines, and with its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) service covers entire processes within a company. Further details from: www.alpha-com.de
About AuthentiDate International AG & AuthentiDate Deutschland GmbH
AuthentiDate (Düsseldorf) is the inventor of the centralized, qualified mass signature and one of the leading providers within the international signature market. The signature and IT-security specialist has been a pioneer for years and is influencing the signature market with its innovations.
More than 50% of the German health insurance companies and international companies and organizations, such as DPD, EnBw, HAYS, Klinikum Braunschweig, SOLVAY Chemicals und TÜV Rheinland have been using AuthentiDate signature products successfully for many years.
AuthentiDate technologies meet the strict requirements of the German Signature Law and the European Signature Directive. AuthentiDate International AG is accredited certification service provider by the Federal Network Agency and runs a Trust Center in compliance with the German Signature Law.
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Judith Balfanz
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