Federal Office of Migration and Refugees works with Oracle to
handle twenty-fold increase in asylum applications.
MUNICH and NUREMBERG,
Germany, May 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The increase in
applications for asylum in Germany, boosted by the arrival of refugees
escaping the humanitarian crisis in Syria, has seen the Bundesamt für Migration
und Flüchtlinge (BAMF), Germany's
Federal Office of Migration and Refugees, work with Oracle to
create a digital management system to quickly and effectively
process crucial proof of arrival and application data.
The system, named ASYL Online, connects to the systems of other
federal authorities such as the Federal Criminal Police Office and
the Central Register of Foreign Nationals, ensuring consistency and
guaranteeing all necessary bodies are working with the same
up-to-date records, underpinned by secure biometric data.
ASYL Online was developed in record time with a focus on
security, rapid data collection and data processing and seamless
integration with existing systems to ensure a smooth and speedy
implementation.
Frank-Jürgen Weise, head of the BAMF, said:
"Our old system was designed to process around 50,000
applications for asylum per year. We now need to process more than
twenty times as many - more than one million applications. It was
clear we needed a new, more efficient system which could be
implemented in record time. We are now perfectly equipped. Over the
course of the year, we will be able to gain a clear picture of who
is in the country as a refugee, ensuring refugees get the rights
they are entitled to while showing the public the process is under
control and being run in an orderly manner."
Frank Obermeier, vice
president and country leader at Oracle Germany, said:
"The challenges in such a mammoth project lay in the complexity
of the system, the tight time constraints and the strict demands.
For tasks like this you need a very hard-working team and an agile
platform. Working with our partners from BAMF, Oracle put
everything we possibly could behind this important and very
time-sensitive project."
Work on the system began in November
2015 and it launched in January
2016. In just two months Oracle Consulting installed two
computer centers in Nuremberg. The system runs on Oracle Exalogic
and Exadata hardware. The project was sponsored by Thomas Kurian, Oracle President Product
Development.
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