Tatis

Representatives from TATIS attended the 2011 WCO IT Conference & Exibition in Seattle, USA. The conference was well attended and Customs officials from all over the world attended. TATIS shared an exibition stand with Oracle (TATIS is a Gold partner of Oracle). We provided a seperate facility where we delivered solution demonstartions. This was well recieved.

The focus of this confrence was "Cloud Computing". The concept of "Cloud Computing" resulted in some heathly debates as to the viability of Revenue Authorities entrusting a 3rd party with their core business data. Although some aspects are maybe outside the relms of the possible, I do believe that most authorities are applying the concept of centralised and virtualised application platforms within their own envionments. This makes business sense from a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) view. This does not imply that these centralised platforms will be entrusted to a virtual private network/platform. In summary I do believe that by addressing concepts like this it does result in strteching our thinking as to what could be achieved in the future. It is key that we evolve the Customs environment into the future by value based innovation.