ELLiXXiR eCustoms Initiative
ELLiXXiR - eCustoms Community Initiative
The ELLiXXiR initiative aims at fostering the cooperation between all actors of the electronic Customs business (i.e. national Customs authorities, Economic Operators, Regulatory Bodies, Customs experts, contracted IT Service Providers) by providing them with a reliable, independent, and structured resources centre to support them during the implementation of their trans-European e-Customs applications supporting EU Council directives (further detailed in the Multi-Annual Strategic Plan (MASP) for Customs).
ELLiXXiR is meant to be a solid vector for innovation and promotes the adoption of an Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) adapted to the electronic Customs domain, including in particular SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) patterns as the best way to modernise customs IT systems. ELLiXXiR initiative is also meant to be a tool offering to the various electronic Customs stakeholders the capacity to formalise new requirements for the provision of common services.
Don’t stay alone…
Why should your organisation develop all its e-Customs applications “from scratch” and support alone all the financial effort whereas such activity could be carried out in partnership with other organisations encountering similar business requirements? If you are interested in sharing the development effort and making important costs savings, join the ELLiXXiR community at www.ellixxir.org/register (available soon).
Don’t reinvent the wheel…
With ELLiXXIR, your organisation has the capacity to download reusable pieces of software commonly developed by ELLiXXiR projects members to speed-up the implementation of e-Customs applications (including MASP projects). It also benefits from a reference framework, documentation, technical and business expertise, and support services.
Keep control…
In a few words, ELLiXXiR provides a new way of working together and puts “innovation” and “common interest” at the heart of its approach. It allows its members to share experience and resources, to keep an entire control on the produced software (which is “open source”), and to adopt a harmonised approach to e-Customs applications development.
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