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Transforming and Simplifying Public Sector IT

公司规模

1,000+

地区

Europe

国家

Ireland

产品

Hazelcast IMDG

技术栈

In-Memory Data Grid
Open Source
Java

实施规模

Enterprise-wide Deployment

影响指标

Customer Satisfaction
Digital Expertise
Productivity Improvements

技术

分析与建模 - 大数据分析
平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台

适用功能

商业运营

用例

数字孪生
过程控制与优化

服务

软件设计与工程服务
系统集成

关于客户

Irish Revenue is the Irish tax and customs administration, employing approximately 5,968 people. It deals with almost 3.5 million personal and business taxpayers and collects around €48 billion a year in taxes and duties. It is also responsible for trade facilitation and frontier control. The organization is highly decentralized, with offices in all parts of the country. Irish Revenue plays a crucial role in the financial and economic stability of Ireland, ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations while providing essential services to the public and businesses.

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挑战

Following the introduction of a new property tax, Irish Revenue’s IT department was tasked with launching a new service for homeowners who were required to declare their property liability and make a declaration online. It soon became apparent that their existing IT architecture wouldn’t be able to cope with two million property owners accessing the website – potentially at the last minute. In addition, Irish Revenue wanted to change the way it managed back-ups, fixes, and upgrades. Historically, these were conducted during the evenings which could result in some services being unavailable as nighttime copies were made and applications tweaked. Therefore, it required a solution which could perform operational tasks seamlessly in parallel with no external effect on service quality. Crucially, Irish Revenue had two prime solution requirements – high availability and performance. Due to its desire to implement an open-source solution which could handle surges in traffic and store data in-memory, Irish Revenue approached Hazelcast.

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解决方案

In Memory Data Grids (IMDGs) are designed to provide high availability and scalability by distributing data across multiple machines. The rise of cloud, social media, and IoT has created demand for applications that need to be extremely fast and capable of processing millions of transactions per second. The Hazelcast IMDG computing platform helps companies manage their data and distribute processing using in-memory storage and parallel execution for breakthrough application speed and scale. It is easy to work with and brings a highly resilient and elastic memory resource to applications. Hazelcast IMDG is one of the most widely adopted open-source solutions with hundreds of thousands of installed clusters increasing 54% in 2017 to reach over 26 million server starts per month. It is the most pervasive open-source memory store technology, championing Java’s transition to large-scale real-time applications, microservices, and Big Data processing. Collaboration is at the heart of the Hazelcast proposition which is why its open-source in-memory data grid is driven by a mature and stable tribe of community members and contributors. After a short proof of concept, Hazelcast IMDG was deployed by Irish Revenue due to ease of use, high availability, and scalability.

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运营影响

Since the implementation of Hazelcast IMDG, development and testing effort has been reduced, while quality has improved. Any concerns raised by Irish Revenue have been taken onboard by Hazelcast and enhancements included in the next product release.
Deploying Hazelcast IMDG has provided greater availability, which in turn has changed the way Irish Revenue manages new releases, fixes, and enhancements.
Previously, if Irish Revenue wanted to make application changes, it was a major enterprise task. Now, using Hazelcast, they can seamlessly introduce mid-week releases for individual applications, improving turnaround from a user perspective.
Application changes can now be conducted seamlessly during the week with no impact on service performance, whereas previously, these changes were done at the weekend.
Irish Revenue is now able to isolate applications and conduct application changes on an individual basis, reducing the risk of downtime for all applications.

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数量效益

Irish Revenue collects around €48 billion a year in taxes and duties.
Hazelcast IMDG's installed clusters increased by 54% in 2017, reaching over 26 million server starts per month.

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