Ness Technologies Signs $19 Million Land Registry Deal for Czech Geodetic and Cadastral Office
February 01 2010 - 5:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
PRAGUE, February 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ness Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTCNASDAQ:andNASDAQ:TASE:NASDAQ:NSTC), a global
provider of information technology solutions and services,
announced today that it has been awarded, as part of a public
tender, a contract for the development and testing of a large
information system - a Registry of Territories, Addresses and
Properties (RUIAN) - for the Czech Geodetic and Cadastral Office
(CUZK). The system, which is valued at CZK 346.5 million, or about
$19 million, is scheduled to go live in July 2011, at which time it
will become one of the four primary registries in the Czech
Republic: territorial identification, addresses and properties,
persons, rights and obligations. The primary goal of the registry
is to ensure that all public administration authorities use - in
their mutual communication - the same data about chosen territorial
elements, which will come from a single reference source. In
addition, the registry will manage data about all addresses of
building sites assigned by municipalities, as well as some
important technical attributes of the buildings. At present, there
is no unique source of the most frequently used data in public
administration. It is a goal of the Czech public administration's
eGovernment policy to use existing government information in the
most effective manner. The reference source will be also open to
the public through the internet. The project delivers a number of
key benefits: - Substitution of duplicate and fragmented
information systems of various public authorities; - Improvement of
the quality of data used in public administration; - Mitigating the
risk of using erroneous data through central data updates, and also
through checking of reference data; - Better protection against
unauthorized data manipulation - technical and operational
measures; - Reducing the administrative and other costs associated
with public administration; - Improvement of service quality;
expansion of the service portfolio; - Shortening administrative
processes; - Precise definition of public official's rights and
their limitations; - Logging of all data manipulation by public
officials; - Improved awareness of persons, consumers,
entrepreneurs and public authorities; - Reducing administrative
costs for businesses; and - Simplification of administrative
procedures for the public. "The system of registries - after its
completion - will streamline our processes significantly, because
public authorities will no longer need to tediously collate
reference data from various sources," said Karel Stencel, Vice
Chairman, CUZK. "This new approach will ensure that data is used
for efficient public administration, and that citizens needing to
interact with the public administration system will no longer need
to provide the same data repeatedly. The data will be provided only
once, captured in the primary registry and - through it -
transferred to all the other information systems in public
administration." "Ness continues to build on and leverage its
extensive know-how in land and property registration - and it has
been a partner to the relevant Czech authorities for 13 years,"
said Mirko Kalous, Managing Director of Ness Czech. "Our success in
this tender follows a similar recent success in Slovakia,
demonstrating Ness' leading position in this segment in Central and
Eastern Europe. Our portfolio of solutions and services for
government has long been one of Ness' strengths, and the
testimonials of our customers show that Ness generates significant
added value for them. We are pleased to participate in yet another
project to satisfy the needs of public administration authorities,
enterprises and the public." About Ness Technologies Ness
Technologies (NASDAQ:NSTCNASDAQ:andNASDAQ:TASE:NASDAQ:NSTC) is a
global provider of IT and business services and solutions with
specialized expertise in software product engineering; system
integration, application development and consulting; and software
distribution. Ness delivers its portfolio of solutions and services
using a global delivery model combining offshore, near-shore and
local teams. With about 7,800 employees, Ness maintains operations
in 18 countries, and partners with numerous software and hardware
vendors worldwide. For more information about Ness Technologies,
visit http://www.ness.com/. Media Contact - International: David
Kanaan Intl: +972-54-425-5307 Email: Media Contact - Czech
Republic: Stance Communications, s.r.o. Petr Pluhacek Tel:
+420-224-810-809 GSM: +420-725-837-673 E-mail: Ness Technologies
investor contact: Drew Wright USA: +1-201-488-3262 Email:
DATASOURCE: Ness Technologies Inc CONTACT: Media Contact -
International: David Kanaan, Intl: +972-54-425-5307, Email: ; Media
Contact - Czech Republic: Stance Communications, s.r.o., Petr
Pluhacek, Tel: +420-224-810-809, GSM: +420-725-837-673, E-mail: ;
Ness Technologies investor contact: Drew Wright, USA:
+1-201-488-3262, Email:
Copyright