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Siemens signs Turkish IT contract |
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has received a major order from the Turkish Ministry of Finance Revenue Administration. Siemens will upgrade the existing IT infrastructure of more than 1,000 tax offices and property directorates and connect them via a countrywide IT system. The administration aims to improve collaboration between the different offices, government institutions and banks in order to better control tax issues. The system will also lead to improved and faster services for the Turkish tax payers. The contract has a total volume of some €73mn and is the largest ever IT contract in the Turkish public sector. This contract follows two previous orders from 1998 and 2004 which laid the foundations of the current system. Siemens will now implement a nationwide web-based application which allows the exchange of relevant tax data between all tax offices as well as between other government organizations and banks. The system is designed to collect information from several sources and databases to create one central reference system, a data warehouse, in which civil servants can compare, control and consolidate information about tax issues. Siemens will also install a disaster recovery solution with three data centres, renew application software and hardware, enlarge the existing intranet, enhance security and auditing standards, and improve the information flow to top management. In addition, Siemens will train more than 18,000 public employees to work efficiently with the new systems. The project is scheduled for completion in two years.
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