1. CIRCA – Current usage in the federal administration of Germany
Brussels, 07. December 2006

2. Offers of the BIT* in affairs of CIRCA
Hosting of the two CIRCA servers taken over of the BSI**
Task transition from KBSt*** in July 2005
Task taken over by BIT in October 2005
Technical support and consultation in affairs of CIRCA
User support (1st and 2nd level support)
Participation in the development of the CIRCA software
*BIT: Federal Office for Information Technology
**BSI: Federal Bureau of IT-security
***KBSt: Bureau of coordination and consultation in affairs of Information Technology

3. CIRCA intranet services
Access via address (closed network among governmental institutions “IVBB”)
Target group:
German federal administration

4. CIRCA internet services
Access via internet address:
Target groups:
German federal administration (leaders of IG’s)
German federal states (Bundesländer) administration
German communities’ administration
Business
Science

5. CIRCA internet and intranet services in comparison
status:
status:
status:
Number of IG’s 11 6 8
Number of registered users
113
112
Number of service calls 2 4 7
CIRCA
internet services
status:
status:
status:
Number of IG’s 32 44 56
Number of registered users
323
521
726
Number of service calls 38 77
115

6. 1st level user support General user inquiries
Password administration / transaction numbers
Memberships
Public / registered access
Notification functionality
Contact person:
Martin Zobel Tel.: +49 (0)

7. 2nd level user-support, technical administration and consultation
Support of IG-leaders
Profile / user-rights administration
Activation / deactivation of services
Public access/ registered access
Admission of new IG-members
Contact person:
Martin Zobel Tel.: +49 (0)

8. Technical administration
Location: Data processing centre BIT
Blade server with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Circa internet in server-cluster
CIRCA 3.3 Patchlevel 12
Contact person:
Sebastian Clanzett Tel.: +49 (0)

9. Consultant for CIRCA services
Consultancy and technical support
Participation in the development of the CIRCA software
Product support
Public relations
Contact persons:
Mareike Neumann Tel.: +49 (0)
Thorsten Hahn
Tel.: +49 (0)

10. Thank you for your attention!