Ixonos has been selected to implement the entity of online services for the nationwide project Kohti kumppanuutta – lapsiperheiden rajattomat palvelut (Towards partnership — services without boundaries for families with children). The project, which the city of Tampere owns, is part of the KuntaIT development activities. Its goal is to improve the quality and accessibility of welfare services aimed at families with children.
“Ixonos’ participation in this project is a continuation of our long-term commitment to promote municipal e-services”, says Teppo Kuisma, head of Ixonos’ Business Solutions unit. “At the same time, we also continue our active openness by again using open source code, which has already proved to be a very useful basis for e-service architectures”, Mr Kuisma adds.
The Kohti kumppanuutta project aims to offer social, health and educational services for families with children and to do this seamlessly, through a single e-service. Online services are flexible and families receive better and more efficient service when providers have one-stop access to comprehensive service information covering the child’s childhood and adolescence.
“Improving the quality and accessibility of services aimed at families with children requires increased uniformity and openness in service provision. Unified service provision promises considerable cost savings for service providers as well as smooth, needs-oriented e-services for residents”, says Paula Vänninmaja, the project’s manager at the city of Tampere.
The Kohti kumppanuutta project was launched in December 2008. Its participants are the cities and regions of Tampere, Espoo, Kuopio, Lahti, Oulu and Salo as well as the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Ministry of Finance. The city of Tampere pilots the nationwide project.
Ixonos will deliver the e-service entity together with Arcusys Ltd. The technical realisation comprises the technical implementation of e-service processes as well as the integrations between the interface and the back-end systems. The e-service architecture uses products based on Intalio and JBoss open source code. In implementing the services, the principles of the enterprise architecture for the entire municipal sector will be used, as will the SOA (service-oriented architecture) platform that Ixonos previously implemented for the city of Tampere.
The three parties — the city of Tampere, Ixonos and Arcusys — will sign the co-operation agreement on 1 February 2011.
For more information, please contact:
Ixonos Plc, Teppo Kuisma, Head of Business Solutions unit, tel. +358 50 581 4075, teppo.kuisma/at/ixonos.com
City of Tampere, Minna Saario, Chief Information Officer (act.), tel. +358 50 345 0784, minna.saario/at/tampere.fi