Connecting Societes
X-Road is a centrally managed, distributed data exchange layer between information systems that provides a standardised and secure way to produce and consume services. The platform ensures confidentiality, integrity and interoperability between data exchange parties.
As an open-source solution, X-Road is comprehensively used as the national data exchange infrastructure in advanced digital societies such as Estonia, Finland, and Iceland. These countries not only utilise X-Road at a national level, but also actively fund its continuous development and ensure robust governance structures are in place for its long-term viability.
Gofore is the leading technology partner for X-Road. We have extensive experience in designing, developing and deploying digital society solutions at national and organisational levels especially in Finland, added with various cases around the world. Additionally, we have several years of experience on the open-source X-Road core development.
X-Road is often chosen as a solution to dismantle organisational silos and enable integrated citizen services that bring together data from multiple sources and systems. Achieving success with X-Road requires an ecosystem approach that carefully considers both organisational and technical aspects. Gofore supports clients at every stage of this transformation.
Our experts help organisations define the target structure for their X-Road ecosystem, including the ecosystem owner and principal members. Other success factors include efficiently organising trust services, establishing effective onboarding processes, and developing suitable policies and legislation – all crucial enablers for long-term operational continuity.
Our architectural specialists assist in defining system requirements and selecting optimal execution environments – be it on-premises, cloud, or containerised solutions. This ensures the ecosystem remaining reliable and resilient, with efficient scalability and high availability for required data exchanges. Our leadership in architecture also brings best practices for continuous secure development and operation of the ecosystem, including member onboarding, DevSecOps methodologies, staging, and test automation.
Our expertise on clarification and definition of targeted life-event based services ensure human-centric design and implementation of relevant use cases. Our developers handle X-Road system configuration and application development using modern technologies. Building on “once only” principle through the utilisation of trusted master data sources we enable individualised, proactive services that encourage rapid adoption and deliver tangible benefits to all stakeholders.
We recognise that ongoing operation and continued development of a local X-Road instance require in-house expertise. Rather than retaining ownership, we focus on sharing our knowledge throughout implementation projects, upskilling local employees to monitor, manage, and operate their X-Road ecosystem. Our services include a comprehensive selection of X-Road training and hands-on learning modules tailored to the needs of various audiences.
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