FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
applications based on the requirements of
the authority and the individual employee.
The organisation and administration of
workstations was previously regulated
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has reached a milestone in the
standardisation and centralisation of its
IT infrastructure. “The experience and
know-how of Computacenter have helped
WITH THE NIC PROJECT, THE STATE
ADMINISTRATION HAS REACHED A
MILESTONE IN THE STANDARDISATION
AND CENTRALISATION OF ITS IT
INFRASTRUCTURE.
differently depending on the location and
users; there was no central management.
“Computacenter has developed and installed
the right solution for us, including central
management. Today, we operate the
solution ourselves,” said Rolf Hoppe, Project
Leader at IT.N.
The rollout was controlled in real time with
the Inventox tool from Computacenter.
On the day they chose for the changeover,
the employees simply had to hand over
their old device and within an hour
could continue working on the new PC
with their usual applications. With the
NiC project, the state administration
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us to implement the project on time. The
same applies to the excellent project
management,” said Rolf Hoppe.
The foundation stone for digital
administration
As an initial phase of development,
together with Computacenter the state
is preparing to introduce electronic files,
which is the basis for further digitisation in
the administration. Like many other federal
states, this is how, several years ago, Lower
Saxony had envisaged the digitisation
of the administration. However, the
solutions used at that time, which met
DOMEA certification, proved to be too
wide-ranging in practice and resulted in
an unnecessary additional burden for the
administration’s staff.
“Above all, the electronic file requires back-
office functions that run in the background
while the employees in the administration
continue to work in their familiar
environment,” said Burkhard Gärtner,
responsible for this project at the Lower
Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport.
The Ministry of the Interior, as the lead
agency, decided to use Computacenter’s
knowledge of the organisational concept
of E-administration and its know-how in
the Microsoft environment for the new
introduction of the electronic file: “Above
all, the comprehensive knowledge of
Computacenter when using Microsoft
SharePoint to set up a collaboration platform
seemed suitable for this project.”
The advantages of the modular approach
in digital administration are obvious for
Burkhard Gärtner: “For the first time we
have achieved consistent IT support for
document processing and data exchange.
And in future we will avoid the media
disruptions that are common today,
because we can combine heterogeneous
storage locations such as MS Outlook, file
servers and the numerous databases from
the various specialist processes. n
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