
Hoeksche Waard, Digitisation is Flexibilisation
The municipality of Hoeksche Waard was created in 2019 from the five...
Belastingsamenwerking Gouwe-Rijnland (BSGR) performs the levy and collection of local taxes on behalf of these municipalities. The BSGR also determines the level of the WOZ value for all real estate in these municipalities.
The BSGR had a clear wish; Real-time processing of BAG-Mutations (the mutations of real estate managed by the Kadaster) based on accurate area delineation retrieval and converting this data to messages in “the language spoken by the local data warehouse”, namely StUF-BG 3.10. These are then offered to another application for further processing.
It was decided to meet this demand with 2Distribute from Enable U and to use Digilevering from Logius. This made it possible to retrieve and process, near real-time, the BAG mutations instead of monthly as was done with the existing solutions.
This implementation is a typical example of the benefits of 2Distribute in a hybrid environment where modern and legacy applications, together with existing (StUF 3.0) and newer (RestAPI) protocols must effortlessly exchange data to implement new processes without too much effort.
During going live, an initial filling of the data warehouse of Belastingsamenwerking Gouwe-Rijnland (BSGR) was done for all relevant BAG objects within the area. This involved approximately 3 million messages. 2Distribute provided the translation between the received BAG IMGEO messages towards StUF 03.10 and after a completeness check by the customer, the solution could go live….
Marcel van Putten, Department Head at Belastingsamenwerking Gouwe-Rijnland; “Our desire was clear, near real-time processing of BAG data in order to improve our service level. In addition, there is always the desire to get technology in house that allows us to implement new ideas faster. Of course, this implementation did not happen by itself either, but thanks to the good cooperation between our employees and Ruud-Jan from Enable U, among others, the implementation was successful. The environment is fully managed by Enable U and uses their own platform. That makes it a lot simpler for all of us. Now it’s up to us to come up with even more smart solutions that we can implement with 2Distribute.”
Ruud-Jan Wolters, Consultant at Enable U; “Once it was clear what BSGR’s requirements were, we knew immediately that we could do this well with 2Distribute. After that it was mainly a matter of properly explaining how we use our platform and especially what other advantages there are to using this solution, such as the fact that management, monitoring and security are provided by Enable U. A great project and a good example of professional cooperation!”