Dataport

Dataport is the service provider of modern information and communication technology for the public sector in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen as well as for the tax administration in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Dataport is a public-law institution with head offices based in Altenholz near Kiel as well as subsidiaries in Hamburg, Rostock and Bremen. Dataport employs around 1.600 people.

Project eGovernment Infrastructure (EGI2)

Architecture management: Separation of similar functionalities, which during the course of development became more and more redundant, from different applications (government procedures such as European services guidelines, central phone number 115 for public authorities). This allowed for consolidating and harmonising such wide-spread functionality into reusable, cross-application, shared services. This is termed "eGovernment-Infrastructure".

Topics in detail:

• cryptography & PKI´s for encryption and signing,
• portals and safeguarding of public internet access to internal authority applications,
• dentity & access management/ Master Data Management/ federated systems/ knowledge management,
• enterprise content management (ECM, documents workflow),
• process management,
• payment,
• secured transport management of government-specific messages.

DHL

DHL is part of the world's leading logistics group, Deutsche Post DHL. DHL offers integrated services and tailored, customer-focused solutions for managing and transporting letters, goods and information.

The project was assigned by DHL Europe.

Project ACCU customer database

Architecture design and project management for the standardisation of the regional customer management aiming at optimising the global customer management system with its various interfaces to country-specific system environments. This also included reengineering and simplifying both manually supported workflows as well as technical processes, especially with regard to the diverse data-streams between the interfaced applications.

DVKA

DVKA is part of the head organisation GKV presiding over German health insurances at federal level according to § 217 a SGB V. It is a public-law institution with self-administration. DVKA is the service provider and partner of health insurances, their members and associations, other social insurance providers as well as internationally operating institutions. As link between the international social insurance systems in Germany, DVKA provides comprehensive services in the area of EU regulations and treaty regulations with more than 40 states.

Project Architecture Analysis E-101

anderScore ran an architectural study of the central data processing role of DVKA in the context of entrepreneurs posting their employees, who are socially insured in Germany, abroad (form E-101). The study also considered the automation of related clearing processes (EG regulation, BMAS implementation resolutions). This comprised:

• evaluation of different technologies to be considered as options for the implementation,
• comparison of alternative application architectures based on previously specified business needs (use-cases, further conditions) and the respective cost-benefit ratio, including topics such as security, support and operation,
• traceable recommendation based on graded evaluation criteria.

Count+Care

COUNT+CARE GmbH (stockholders: HEAG Südhessische Energie AG / HSE and Stadtwerke Mainz AG) provides metering and billing services and offers all operational processes as well as related IT solutions for sales organisations and network operators within the utilities sector; - from running metering points through to billing and claims management in a modular way or as fully integrated turn-key packages. COUNT+CARE provides industry, trade and commerce with detailed consumption records and information essential to identify optimisation potential und hence to directly improve revenues.

Project migration to SOA-based application environment with frontend from portlet components

anderScore initially supported COUNT+CARE (previously Entega Service GmbH) in its implementation activities to cover various specific requirements from internal business-side departments, mainly sales. The existing application environment (including connection to SAP IS-U) was enhanced.
Following this experience, anderScore and COUNT+CARE designed the roadmap for the migration of the so far proprietary environment to a SOA-based and via standard portlet technology accessible application architecture. Thus the solution offered by COUNT+CARE can stably and consistently evolve with the customers’ demands and growing volume.
The feasibility was proved by several pilot implementations which are now productive.
COUNT+CARE and anderScore implemented the roadmap in close cooperation: coherent business logic was gradually migrated into distinct services and encapsulated into decoupled architectonical layers.

Telefónica

Telefónica O2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG belongs to Telefónica Europe and is part of the Spanish telecommunication group Telefónica S.A.
The company offers its German private and business customers post- and pre-paid mobile telecom products as well as innovative mobile data services based on the GPRS and UMTS technologies. In addition, the integrated communications provider also offers DSL fixed network telephony and high-speed internet. Telefónica Europe has 49 million mobile and fixed network customers in Great Britain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany.

Project DSL Provisioning Wholesale

Delivery of an application environment for the provisioning of complete DSL lines in the new DSL wholesale business of Telefónica and for the introduction of TAL services (TAL = “Teilnehmeranschlussleitungen”/ local loop unbundled) together with the reseller freenet.

anderScore was only involved in this project during the last couple of weeks of the project duration. In a project management role, anderScore focussed the ongoing design and development steps of Telefónica onto the most relevant ones and ran an extensive test phase with the resell partners. Many interfaces had to be considered, between Telekom in its special role, other carriers, other resellers as well as the end-users/ telephone subscribers. The interfaces relate e.g. to address and DSLAM availability checks, net elements, sales and billing applications. Due to the late assignment and the extreme time shortage, anderScore used a highly agile approach: During the first weeks of the anderScore assignment daily review meetings were held with all involved parties in order to evaluate the progress and to agree on the follow-ups in the overall plan. Thus anderScore could ensure a successful, timely and stable implementation, in time for the Christmas business.