Propylon Delivers New Life Event Service to Irish Government
DEPS enables Irish government departments and agencies to automatically receive validated death event notifications for use in their internal business processes. Agencies use this information to add value to their business transactions with public service customers.
(PRWEB) July 1, 2004 -- Propylon announces the delivery of a new life event
service to Irish Government. The service, the Death Event Publication Service
(DEPS) is the result of a collaboration between Reach, the General Register
Office (GRO) and the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA). DEPS
enables government departments and agencies to receive validated death event
notifications for use in their internal business processes. The goal of the
service is to enable government agencies to use this information to add value to
their business transactions with public service customers.
The service
is delivered over the Inter Agency Messaging Service (IAMS), a messaging based
solution developed by Propylon for Reach, to support the electronic exchange of
customer data among agencies in the public service. DEPS sits as a service on
the IAMS and allows public service agencies to subscribe to or receive business
level messages over the Government Virtual Private Network (gVPN). The messages
can be either directly consumed by departmental or agency computer systems, or
be manually downloaded and implemented within the department or agency.
Propylon CTO Sean McGrath commented “ DEPS is a great example of public
service business integration, where agencies and departments can choose how and
when to make use of centrally provided services to improve their internal
business processes. The fact that the information is available to the agencies
in a XML format means they can choose how to make use of the information within
their own systems, in a way that fits with their business processes, nothing has
to change, but the capacity to modernise and improve service delivery is
available to them.”
Oliver Ryan, the Director of Reach commented “DEPS is
built on the existing IAMS infrastructure, using message standards, data
standards and models, developed and agreed by Reach in conjunction with a number
of other public service agencies.
DEPs is a good example of a
“business-driven” service in that its development was sparked by demand from
public service agencies for early notification of deaths of subscribers to
enable them to realise significant savings in payments of pensions, medical
benefits, etc.
The DEPS ‘publish and subscribe’ service is not limited
to life event related notifications, it can also support many other types of
message-based event notification. Therefore, the DEPS code will be made
available by Reach for reuse by other public service agencies, who choose to
develop ‘sectoral hubs’ such as the IAMS, potentially relieving them of a
significant amount of cost and effort.
Lessons learned in the development
of DEPS and IAMS have been of great assistance to Reach in the design and
implementation of the Public Service Broker.”
Contact: Liam Chambers
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