PROBLEMS WITH NON-OPEN DATA STANDARDS IN SWEDISH MUNICIPALS - When Integrating and Adopting Systems

Benneth Christiansson, Fredrik Svensson

2007

Abstract

Governments world-wide are applying information and communication technology in order to meet a broad range of citizen and organizational needs. When planning systems integration the choice should lead to the software that best suits the organizational needs, taking into account price, quality, ease of use, support, reliability, security and other characteristics considered important. This paper is based on experiences from the KOMpiere project which aims at modifying the open source licensed ERP-system Compiere for use in Swedish municipals. The overall goal of the project is to support and enhance the use of open source licensed software in the Swedish public sector and thereby enable municipals to lower their IT-related costs and gain strategic control over their own IT-environment. We discovered that at least some Swedish municipals don’t have free access to the data they are appointed to govern and protect. The software vendors have, by using non-open data standards, excluded the municipals from using their own data freely. Thereby denying Swedish municipals an open market. We have in this paper suggested the creation and usage of XML-based ODS for all systems in Swedish municipals.

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Christiansson B. and Svensson F. (2007). PROBLEMS WITH NON-OPEN DATA STANDARDS IN SWEDISH MUNICIPALS - When Integrating and Adopting Systems . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 264-267. DOI: 10.5220/0002374602640267


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Benneth Christiansson and Fredrik Svensson},
title={PROBLEMS WITH NON-OPEN DATA STANDARDS IN SWEDISH MUNICIPALS - When Integrating and Adopting Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={264-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002374602640267},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - PROBLEMS WITH NON-OPEN DATA STANDARDS IN SWEDISH MUNICIPALS - When Integrating and Adopting Systems
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Christiansson B.
AU - Svensson F.
PY - 2007
SP - 264
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0002374602640267