Our coporate website is now ready. It can bee seen here and u can read abt all of our projects in real Digital Task Force style:-).

One of our solutions are The public Informationbase (OIB), which now in a beta-version and u can see it here.

It consist the most of the public "Blanketter" and many of them can be used online.

Moreover consist the OIB some of the business processes (Arbejdsgangsbanken) in the Muncipalities. I blog about this anonther time.

Hello to all the geeks.

I know; long time; no blogging:-) One of the reason is that I have been granted with a new child; Younas and he is 3 months now. I will from now be more active.

For your information I have since 1th of April been employed as Chief Consultant at Kommune Holding A/S. I am involved on different large and very exciting it-projects for the Danish municipalities. - I will be back!!

There have been a lot of discussion about B103 and the consequences of primary ODF vs OOXML. The National IT- and Telecom Agency have prepared a lot of analysis, documentation, tests etc. about the two document standards.

The latest are guidelines for the public instutions, who most from the new year be able to RECEIVE documents in the two formats. The guidelines can be downloaded here. Epecially the chapter about tendoring is interesting.

I use MS Word 2003 and can read OOXML documents. If somebody sends my ODF-documents; I must forward it to our support-departement, who must convert it to .doc-format for me.

The CIO-magazine have two very interesting articles named Seven Reasons Why Outsourcing to India is Good for Your Business and Eight Reasons Why Outsourcing to India Could Hurt Your Business. The articles summarize the benefits and challenges in outsourcing and the points can be usen in generally outsourcing considerations, not only in outsourcing to India.

One of the main ideas is to seek outsourcing-partners in other parts of the world than India, like Latin America, Eastern Europe, China and Asia.

I participated again in the annual IBM Softwareday. The headline this year was "Is your SW-strategy a Business strategy". Nice headline; buy IBM products and u will get a good business:- )

The most of the presentations was introduced with comments on open standards, the Document format-game and the judgement and fines from EU to MS; yes all with focus on Microsoft. One of the new initiatives was a annual price to the most innovative use of IBM products, which was given to Odense municipality for integrating 17 applications to one portal for the employees.

I followed the SOA-track titled Flexibility for the sake of business , which was the track with the least following in contradaction to the last year, where the SOA-track was the most popular. The most visited track this year was about portals, web 2.0 and the new Lotus Notes 8 titled "Get the full potential of your employees".

In the SOA-track there were presentations from three interesting cases from Coloplast, Torm and Actavis. The track was introduced by a demo of a BPM-based portal for a Establish Customer-proces, where the Customer lead has a view on all status, targets, Performance Indicators etc. At red lights must the lead take action by clicking further to online statistics, analysis and change the business rules. It looked real cool and benefit-full, but BPM SOA is the most mature state in SOA.

The initial scope for Coloplast has been on integrating their Oracle EnterpriseOne (ERP-system) and Siebel CRM in different locations global wise with use on IBM Websphere Proces Server (with ESB). The principle was to use lean (=clean) ERP and CRM-systems and implement the rest in a SOA-environment. The benefits are standardization and clean ERP and CRM-systems. More over have they now created the fundament for the future SOA-work, where they will work with BPM etc. There governance have almost only focus on the it-side, because the business-side is not matured yet.

Torm have really focus on one SOA-based Workplace for their employees in one portal, which is really benefitfull because of the very competitive environment, where the fleet rates for fuel change very fast. All their applications as Navision, Notes etc. (one interface) are integrated and presented in one Portal based on Websphere. One of the main benefits with Websphere is, that it is role based and procedure supporting, which allignes perfect with Saban Oxley, SOA-Governance… real good idea.

Actavis is a enterprise in the pharma-industry and they also mentioned the importance of process focused SOA, since 25’% of their products prices goes to validated processes.

The slides can be downloaded here.

- MS Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 07) for the National Citizen Portal
- The Open Source Plone for the many sites and portals of the Ministry of Science, tech and development

The Danish IT Citizen portal, IT-borger.dk is already implemented with Plone.

By this the MOSS 07 and Plone substitutes Oracles WCS og Stellent. One of the arguments are, that the new platforms are supported by more vendors than Oracle, which according to CW, is mainly supported by one big vendor in Denmark.

Last week I participated in the Citizen and Company portal conference arranged by The Digital Taskforce.

It was a very interesting and informative conference. The integration to the two portals should be done by the common integration model based on Link or IFrame. It is not really recommended to use WSRP yet, because of its immatureness and challenges in security by using SAML 2.0.

The integration model is almost finished by its first version and consist good descriptions of the processes, roles, requirements and guidelines. Especially the Appendix A and B consists guidelines for cookies, visual integration, languages, messages, navigation, styling, security (primary SAML 2.0 and SSO) etc.

Our Agency have a big role in the Citizen portal, since we are preparing EasySMS, Document Box and User Administration (first SSO/SAML 2.0), which are central components in the portals. More over will we deliver important services to be published on the portals.

The pilot testing of exchange of editable textdocuments formats is started. U can follow the testing and evulation here.

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