Government

E-Reporting for State Government

Organizations looking to implement E-Government share many key objectives. First, they want to bring new services online as soon as possible to begin to realize the economic advantages of the Web. They also want E-Government to be both secure and easy to use. E-Reporting is a solution that combines market leading products and services from Entrust, IBM and Adobe to help government meet these objectives by using:

• IBM e-business Hosting Services to enable the Entrust security infrastructure to secure E-Reporting from the State’s portal.
• Entrust TruePass with the Entrust security infrastructure to enable digital signatures for online submissions.
• Adobe Form Server for Web-based forms that enable intelligent data capture and workflow management.

The current spotlight on fiscal responsibility makes the case for moving to paperless processing immediately compelling. E-Reporting enables governments to move to paperless government and focus on:

• Reducing expenses and increasing revenues,
• Improving service to business constituents, and
• Expediting deployment of E-Government services.

Solution

Leveraging the State’s existing portal, E-Reporting is a Web-based solution that combines electronic data capture with digital signatures to convert paper-based processes into secure online submissions. With this solution, States can securely exchange information between thousands of touch points within law enforcement, health services, education, natural resources, and revenue departments. In addition to opening the door for this intra-agency collaboration and data sharing, E-Reporting enables governments to reach out to business constituents, extending the economic advantage of moving to paperless government.

While governments recognize the potential of the Web to provide convenient, easy-to-use services, they must also comply with regulations and maintain the accountability and privacy of online transaction. E-Reporting replaces manual signatures with digital signatures, providing an audit trail and integrity for online submissions. This is especially critical for government-mandated compliance reporting where the e-form is as legally binding as the paper document it replaced. E-Reporting can not only eliminate the need to store paper copies but can also address privacy concerns by persistently encrypting data being transmitted from a desktop over the Web to the backend application.

Benefits

• Benefit from Savings, Revenue, and Service
• Repeatable Across Government
• Economic Advantages of Paperless Government

Benefit from Savings, Revenue, and Service

Governments are choosing solutions that not only capitalize on opportunities for on-going cost savings, but also improve service and address regulations for information security. E-Reporting can help governments:

• Reduce costs associated with paperless processing including printing, mailing, copying, faxing, and storage.
• Improve government efficiency by eliminating redundancy and reducing errors in data collection and storage.
• Comply with government regulations for auditable and confidential information.
• Improve service with online tools that help businesses meet their obligations for reporting and licensing.
• Reduce processing time from weeks to hours for many recurring government processes.

Repeatable Across Government

E-Reporting can be translated to any government-to-business, government-to-government, or internal government process helping State government to:

• Eliminate paper from environmental compliance reports.
• Expedite the distribution of education funds for child nutrition and transportation.
• Enable electronic processing of Medicare claims.
• Ensure the confidentiality of juvenile criminal records.
• Provide mobile law enforcement personnel with access to intelligence information and criminal records.
• Enable online access to everything from licensing renewals to tax filing.

Economic Advantages of Paperless Government

With ever increasing strains on government budgets, the move to paperless government may seem out of reach. The solution for E-Reporting can be virtually self-funding with many cost saving and even revenue generating opportunities:

• Recurring cost savings aggregated across multiple forms and agencies
• Productivity improvements to reduce the overhead and staffing requirements
• Assessing a convenience fee private sector constituents for online submissions
• Increasing the economic advantage of the government portal by improving employee and constituent confidence in security
• Enabling cost savings and productivity improvements to accrue for private sector constituents as well as other government agencies