eGovernment frameworks to deliver services to citizens, corporations and inter-departmental networks

Governments have proven to be one of the main adopters of service architectures that are truly customer-centric. They use XML to link their systems together, and to expose "Government Gateways" for private citizens and businesses to access government portals that expose a wide range of services. These users demand an efficient, anytime, anywhere availability and expect a government service that maintains security and protects the privacy of their personal information.

Vordel Solutions

Examples of eGovernment solutions which are enabled by Vordel's products include:

• Advance Passenger Information (API) systems, whereby governments share information about passengers crossing borders.
• Cross-departmental sharing of citizen information, which allows "joined-up government", reducing redundancy and waste.
• Collaborative document creation, where core XML-based documents are edited across different government departments, even across different national governments.

E-Government systems have stringent privacy and audit-logging requirements. They also cannot compromise on performance. Vordel provides encryption and signing at field level which allows sensitive information to be selectively encrypted and signed.

Vordel also supports the open standards such as SAML 2.0 which are used in e-Government to avoid vendor lock-in.

Vordel enables government customers to manage their XML traffic, to ensure that identity controls are applied to all services which are exposed using XML.