Performing inspections, issuing official documents or processing permit applications: if these tasks are to be executed properly, local councils need to work together with many parties. XCOLLAB offered the solution in the form of a secure and user-friendly collaboration portal.
Every day, a hundred ICT professionals at Equalit help thirteen clients, including eleven municipalities and a total of 2,800 government workers, to collaborate regardless of place or time. There was an urgent need for local councils to be able to collaborate with external parties in a secure portal. Equalit, together with NLX, responded by initiating the implementation of XCOLLAB, also known as Samenwerkportaal (Collaboration Portal).
Equalit is an ICT membership body of and for local authorities. It was set up in 2005 as a joint effort between Oosterhout and Oisterwijk councils. Their common goal was to reduce ICT costs, increase quality and hence lower the vulnerability of these organisations. In 2007, the body, which then had four participating councils, took on the name Equalit. It now has eleven member councils.
Performing inspections, issuing official documents or processing permit applications: if these tasks are to be executed properly, local councils need to work together with many parties. XCOLLAB offered the solution in the form of a secure and user-friendly collaboration portal.
Every day, a hundred ICT professionals at Equalit help thirteen clients, including eleven municipalities and a total of 2,800 government workers, to collaborate regardless of place or time. There was an urgent need for local councils to be able to collaborate with external parties in a secure portal. Equalit, together with NLX, responded by initiating the implementation of XCOLLAB, also known as Samenwerkportaal (Collaboration Portal).
Equalit is an ICT membership body of and for local authorities. It was set up in 2005 as a joint effort between Oosterhout and Oisterwijk councils. Their common goal was to reduce ICT costs, increase quality and hence lower the vulnerability of these organisations. In 2007, the body, which then had four participating councils, took on the name Equalit. It now has eleven member councils.
The exchange of documents and files with external staff and supply chain partners is essential to a properly functioning collaboration. This is possible in a controlled and secure manner with Samenwerkportaal. Government workers can collaborate on documents very easily and share them with external contacts without the need to do so via risky methods such as email or file transfers.
Together with Equalit, NLX has designed the portal in such a way that it dovetails perfectly with the wishes and needs of the councils. The portal integrates very easily with other applications via APIs. Councils thus avoid getting yet another working environment but can log into the collaboration portal via the application they already work with.
Timo Kempees, a consultant at Equalit
