INDUSTRY VALUE NETWORK GROUP for Public Sector

SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions with the versatility and accessibility of collaborative electronic forms documentation. It enables you to streamline and automate your paper-based business processes, as well as to extend the reach of enterprise applications to executives, constituents, and suppliers.

ESRI is working closely with SAP on joint development projects to provide SAP solutions with geographic information system (GIS) functionality, including spatial analysis and visualization. With GIS interfaces to SAP solutions, users can turn rows and columns of tabular data into maps for spatially visualizing and analyzing data. GIS empowers SAP users with tools for making better decisions and maximizing the return on their information investment.

ILOG JRules Business Rule Management System (BRMS) complements SAP NetWeaver by automating business policies and supporting enterprise-wide and centralized business rule management. Through integration with the SAP NetWeaver Portal component of the SAP NetWeaver platform, ILOG JRules allows better alignment between business and technology for managing policy-intensive decision services and processes.

Open Text delivers DoD 5015.2 certified records management capabilities for SAP systems to provide full lifecycle management and records control for all business objects generated in and associated with SAP transactions. The solution helps ensure regulatory compliance and reduce the risks associated with audit and litigation, while making records management processes transparent to the end users.

bioLock protects any area within the SAP system with innovative, biometric fingerprint technology and offers a complete identity management. bioLock was developed by Realtime to secure SAP users in critical organizations, such as governments, financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare providers, and utilities companies.

RuleBurst software provides organizations with a means of accurately automating the most complex business decisions. This facility can be deployed within a SAP environment to provide rules-driven decision-making support at discrete points within a business process flow. RuleBurst software also ensures that business rules can be changed quickly in response to policy and legislative changes, and that process efficiency is not compromised by any lags in responding to compliance changes.

TATIS develops and markets custom solutions for revenue compliance, trade facilitation, and supply chain security. The SAP for Public Sector solutions, integrated with TATIS software, provide comprehensive customs and border management functionality that helps customs administrators meet their responsibilities. The solutions enable you to manage all aspects of customs, border, and revenue issues.

Accenture has been delivering integrated tax solutions to revenue agencies around the world for more than 20 years and has teamed with SAP on more than 1,800 enterprise software implementations.

Their newly packaged ARRS composite application runs on the SAP NetWeaver platform and provides preconfigured modules as well as additional functionality to address the complex and evolving business requirements faced by many revenue agencies. ARRS is built on an enterprise service-oriented architecture (ESOA) to provide a foundation for integrating business processes governed by multiple systems.

BearingPoint is a proven partner for government agencies undertaking initiatives to increase tax yield, improve customer service, streamline operations, and modernize legacy systems. BearingPoint has developed a solution strategy that speeds deployment, leverages leading practices, and takes advantage of SAP's industry-leading tax and revenue management solution. It has experience in delivering large-scale tax and revenue management systems that are helping to produce measurable results.

Capgemini is a global IT partner collaborating with a several major tax agencies around the world to solve their business challenges and work with them to develop, integrate, and manage major IT systems and services. With extensive experience in developing public sector solutions, Capgemini is collaborating with SAP to develop an approach to tax and revenue management that can support major tax agencies around the world as they seek to provide citizen-focused services while reducing costs.

Deloitte has extensive experience in successfully managing complex, multifaceted projects that enable its clients to realize their stated goals and objectives. Deloitte is a global integration partner of SAP and, using the tax and revenue management (TRM) functionality of SAP software, successfully delivered the first-ever ERP-based integrated tax system. Deloitte continues to collaborate with SAP to further enhance and expand the TRM functionality of SAP software. Deloitte also offers a broad array of services, including business process re-engineering, workforce transition, proven methodologies, shared services, and outsourcing, to further enhance the customer's implementation experience and boost their level of success.

To address the trend that has governments examining their treasury processes, the HP State Treasury Management solution integrates all elements that enable governments to strengthen their economic position. HP extends its capabilities through its alliance with SAP. This alliance increases the range of resources available through HP's eGovernement Framework.