Public Administration Office Systems Demonstrator

PANDA - 5432

Keywords public administration information systems, electronic circulation folders, office information servers

Start Date: 01-DEC-90 / Duration: 12 months

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Objectives and Approach

The PANDA project addressed the user needs of large and complex organisations such as public administrations. The objective was to build a demonstrator able to support the main activities carried out in public administration offices. The demonstrator was to address case-handling tools as well as tools for information flow control and circulation. The project aimed to integrate on a common platform the components available from these projects, taking the relevant standards into account.

The basic goals of PANDA were to:

• operate in an open heterogeneous environment, demonstrated through the particular configuration used by PANDA.
• cope with specific organisational contexts, demonstrated through the usage of folder migration specifications and the electronic organisational handbook with the PANDA demos, and will be further demonstrated through some ergonomic features which allow to customise easily to national or local characteristics.
• support electronic casework and flow, demonstrated through sequences of steps and activities organised into sub-demonstrators.

PANDA was concerned with the building up of integrated office systems including servers, communications facilities, dedicated devices and different kinds of workstations; particular emphasis will be devoted to problems of case processing, documents processing, filing and retrieval, and information exchange.

The project was an attempt to address the overall information management problem, providing document handling and control facilities by means of user-friendly graphics interfaces.

The result of the project is a demonstrator able to support real-life applications in office environments.

Exploitation

The consortium members will exploit the various modules according to their marketing strategies, and have agreed to support each other in the maintenance of the modules and in extending their scope.

CONTACT POINT

Mr G. Leonori
SOGEI
Via Cornelio Celso 4
I - 00161 ROMA
tel: + 39/ 6-8841101
fax: + 39/ 6-4402686
telex: 621134

Participants

SOGEI - I - C
GRUPO APD SA - E - P
I/S DATACENTRALEN AF 1959 - DK - P
TELEFONICA SISTEMAS SA - E - P
IABG GMBH - D - P
BULL SA - F - P

PANDA - 5432, December 1993

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