Whilst visiting the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday, Getronics’ Chairman Klaas Wagenaar signed a five-year, EUR 14.6 million contract for the ‘Registrars project’ of the Hungarian Government. This project concerns the 2,800 registry offices in Hungary, which hold all official records for births, deaths, marriages and name changes. Getronics will modernise and centralise the current traditional distributed paper-based system.

The solution that Getronics created is based on a centralised application and a database running on servers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Data Center. Each registry office will be connected to the data center via Internet VPN over GPRS. A chip card-based client authentication system will be implemented. Getronics will provide project management, application development, user authentication, infrastructure integration and operational support. The project is based on Cisco, Microsoft and Dell technologies.

Peter Ratkai, General Manager of Getronics Hungary, comments: "Besides the complexity of the solution, the size and geographical scope of this project make it challenging. From now on we can say: Whenever a baby is born in Hungary, Getronics support will be there."

Remote Service Center in Hungary

Getronics’ Chairman, Klaas Wagenaar, also used his visit to Hungary to discuss support for Getronics’ plans to establish a remote service centre in Hungary with the State Secretary for Governmental IT Development. The Getronics Service Centre (GSC) will provide back-office remote support for all ‘non-client touching’ services and some of the non-essential client interfacing functions in Europe and the Middle East. The center is due to open before the end of the year and will employ 50 people in its initial phase.

Getronics already has a successful remote service center in Mexico, which works for the Americas and has 250 employees. In 2005, a third remote service center will be established for the Asian Pacific Countries.

About Getronics Hungary

Getronics Hungary works for a mixture of public and private sector clients within Hungary, particularly in the areas of application integration and management, and managed ICT services.