Public administration is under enormous pressure. The expectations of citizens are growing, yet budgets are being mercilessly cut. In fact, 85% of IT managers in public administration consider lack of funding to be their greatest challenge. This was reported in the “Public Trend” study published by Mummert Consulting. The conversion of different workflows to digital processes result in improvements in IT security. The decision-makers in public agencies and authorities are just as concerned about IT security as about having more efficient administrative processes. The flood of new viruses, worms and Trojan horses is forcing new investment since many public service networks are still not sufficiently projected against outside attacks. This means that it is especially important to conduct risk assessments in order to minimize dangers.
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Customer Stories - Public Sector
Karlshamns Kommun Local Authority (Sweden)
Swedish local authority chooses IGEL for management capabilities.
The municipality of Karlshamn in southern Sweden is home to 32,000 people over a
490 sq km radius. A traditional harbour town, Karlshamn thrived on the growth of
the fishing, alcohol and tobacco industries. Today, run by the Karlshamns Kommun
local authority, the community’s historic town centre is popular with tourist
visitors.
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Oberhavel administrative district (Germany)
A model with a bright future!
The Oberhavel administrative district is one of 69 local authorities that
implement the Option Model to help and support the unemployed. This
“Optionskommune” (opting local authority) is consequently responsible,
independently of the Federal German Employment Office, for the recipients of
long-term unemployment benefits following “Hartz IV” (German unemployment
benefit reform). To participate in the field trial that will run for at least
six years, the district’s municipal administration set up a total of 230 new IT
workstations on the basis of a server-based computing concept with thin clients.
Following the initial positive experience, this cost-saving infrastructure will
now be expanded step-by-step.
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Duisburg City Library (Germany)
The Duisburg City Library uses IGEL Thin Clients to provide its
resource-saving research and Internet workstations.
The most frequently visited educational and cultural institution in Duisburg is
the City Library. Every year, more than 150,000 people use the facilities
consisting of a central library, six larger regional libraries, seven smaller
district libraries and two mobile libraries to make their selections from a
comprehensive collection of knowledge including almost 800,000 media items.
Supported by the various locations, the intention now is to push forward the
widespread introduction of the Internet for all strata of the population. For
this purpose, today’s Duisburg City Library offers as a matter of course modern
Internet workstations as well as support and target-group oriented training for
practical handling of this new medium.
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Trier-Saarburg district council (Germany)
The Trier-Saarburg district council will migrate almost entirely (95%) to IGEL thin clients by the end of 2007.
The outlook is good for the Trier-Saarburg administrative district in southwest Germany: above-average growth rates, low unemployment and a good infrastructure characterize this historic administrative district, geographically the third largest in Rhineland Palatinate, with around 140,000 inhabitants. In order for this to remain the case, the district's administrative authorities, which comprise seven collective municipalities with four towns and 99 local municipalities, are looking for efficient IT management using state-of-the-art desktops.
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Berlin Director of Public Prosecution (Germany)
A thin time for the Berlin DPP
The extensive introduction of server-based computing architecture has allowed the Berlin Director of Public Prosecution‘s office to increase the number of individual workstations by 50% without increasing administration costs. Two years ago, the Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP’s) Office in Berlin embarked on an ambitious rationalisation project for systematically switching its IT-infrastructure system to server-based computing.
