Canary Islands Government Applies Bonita Open Solution for e-Government

PARIS, October 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canary Islands Government continues to employ Open Source technology through Bonita Open Solution to provide citizens with quick access to online procedures in collaboration with Bull Spain and BonitaSoft.

The Directorate General of Telecommunications and New Technologies of the Canary Islands (Spain), Bull, and BonitaSoft have worked together to provide the Canary Islands e-government with business process automation capabilities (Business Process Management). This facilitates the development of applications for citizens, in order to modernize the processing of electronic records in all areas of public administration.

With the introduction of the 11/2007 Law on electronic access for citizens, government agencies have been facing significant challenges to modernize, optimize and streamline procedures to make e-government a reality.

Law 11/2007 and Royal Decree 1671/2009, 03/2010 and 04/2010 made it compulsory for government agencies to provide all citizens with the ability to perform administrative procedures through electronic means.

    The solutions adopted by the government must ensure:

    - Information available to and communication with citizens
    - Interoperability with other agencies and governments
    - Verification and authenticity of citizenship
    - Administrative record documentation and filing
    - Single input of information for citizens

The Directorate General of Telecommunications and New Technologies of the Canary Islands Government has placed its trust in Bull and Bonita Open Solution to meet the needs of administrative management with citizens in this new legal environment.

BonitaSoft and Bull have developed a fully integrated solution architecture, which serves the needs of the various departments and subsidiaries of the Canary Islands. This solution is integrated with specific applications for each of them and manages all e-Government procedures of the Canary Islands rapidly, reliablly, scalably and optimally.

The Government of the Canary Islands, BonitaSoft and Bull have implemented a BPM architecture fully integrated with existing Information Systems. It is organized in a cluster of BPM nodes, ensuring high availability, scalability and performance for the deployed platform.

Bull and BonitaSoft

Bull is a leading supplier of open infrastructure solutions and a co-founder of OW2 - the first global consortium dedicated to open middleware - of which BonitaSoft is a member. Bull is also a BonitaSoft "Maestro" partner.

About BonitaSoft:

BonitaSoft is the leading provider of open source business process management (BPM) software. Created in 2009 by the founders of Bonita project, BonitaSoft is democratizing the use of BPM in companies of all sizes with an intuitive and powerful solution with an optimum cost. The Bonita solution has been downloaded more than 400.000 times to date by companies and organizations worldwide.

More information at: http://www.bonitasoft.com

About Bull:

Expert in open, flexible and secure information systems, Bull is an international company with presence in over 50 countries. Bull's active commitment is to innovation and technological development, especially for developing Open Source solutions and platforms to help customers optimize, improve and evolve their information systems. BULL has 14 R&D and competence centers distributed throughout the world, whose activities include the development of Open Source Software in coordination with OW2.

In Spain, Bull employs over 1,000 employees with an extensive network throughout the Spanish territory. Bull is particularly present in public, healthcare, finance, industry, defense and telecommunications.

For more information: http://www.bull.es - http://www.ow2.org

SOURCE BonitaSoft