Belgian government adopts Oracle technologies for its Federal Service Bus Platform

By eGovAsia Editors | Jan 14, 2011

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Belgium’s Federal Government Information and Communications Technology Service (Fedict) has selected Oracle products and technologies including, Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Database as the basis for its Federal Service Bus (FSB) platform.

Fedict is responsible for implementing the country’s e-government strategy. Its team worked with Oracle PartnerNetwork Platinum partner, RealDolmen to create the FSB as a standardized platform for Belgium’s government agencies to use for creating online “One Stop shop” services and to help simplify the exchange of information between government institutions.

Examples of Belgian e-government applications include the Federal Portal, which is comprised of 20 different web sites and more than 50,000 web pages; e-Birth, the online declaration of a newborn; and Police-on-Web, where citizens can declare petty crime or report when they’ll be out of town so police can patrol their neighborhood.

The first application that went live with Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and the Oracle Database was developed in less than two months and was fully operational in approximately 10 weeks. In addition, new FSB modules are reusable for other Belgian e-government applications, saving both time and taxpayer dollars.

“With applications such as the electronic identity card, Tax-on-Web and the Federal Portal, Belgium is among the world’s e-government leaders,” said Peter Strickx, chief technology officer, Fedict. “Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite 11g are critical components to the success of our FSB platform, helping us drive new levels of flexibility and scalability and also greatly accelerating the introduction of new services.”