Municipality of Rijswijk

The municipality of Rijswijk is increasingly steering towards Cloud, because they too are more and more using Software as a Service (SaaS).

This means that a target architecture has been formulated, in which the municipality will mainly focus on purchasing functionalities instead of technology. In short, this means that the municipality of Rijswijk mainly wants to become a management organization, working from (technical) partnerships. Therefore they also want to be unburdened in the field of integration.

Be in control

If you are going to carry out your processes from the management organization integration becomes increasingly important. After all, you cannot purchase completely integrated solutions in advance. Koos: “Integration is an important pillar for our target architecture and information access. It is therefore important that we can clearly indicate what our vision on architecture is and what our direction will be for the coming years, taking into account, for example, the VNG or Common Ground. Off course it is just as important to clearly share the vision with partners and integration suppliers.

Fortunately, we can communicate with Enable U very well and therefore have a long standing partnership with the integration specialists. We want to get rid of technology and move towards functionalities. Through the partnership with Enable U, we have been able to completely let go of the integration technology in that sense through Managed Integrations and we are completely unburdened. Though at the same time, we remain in control. This has a positive impact on the entire organizational process.”

Enthusiastic about Managed Integrations

Koos continues: “The municipality of Rijswijk cannot necessarily be seen as an early adaptor, we are not at the forefront of a cloud-first strategy, but in this area we have become one due to the external ICT developments. The big advantage of Managed Integrations is the continuous availability of support, should problems arise. Previously, the knowledge about the architecture, and specifically the complex integration architecture and solutions, was mainly in the head of an external or non-external consultant. But now problems are proactively identified and, where possible, remedied, without us having to do anything with them.”

Rob: “The big advantage is that the Managed Integrations can be set up in a manageable way. In terms of technology, I certainly don’t need any other solution. Integrations and Connections are now always up, that has been different before. I’m happy with how things are going now. Enable U speaks our language, it really is a partnership. And that is also due to the excessive technical knowledge of the consultants, and the willingness to think along. If you put a question to an Enable U Consultant, they always think along with you, if they don’t know, they will always get back to it. I think that’s a really amazing service.”