How the City of Schwäbisch-Hall Ensures a Sustainable Open Source IT Infrastructure with the Introduction of UCS

When people think of Schwäbisch-Hall, they most likely think of the building society of the same name or a picturesque old town (which is well worth a visit, by the way). Maintaining the latter is just one of the many tasks of the city administration. And the days of pencils and paper files are slowly coming to an end here, too. Modern IT ensures that the more than 900 employees can access their mails, appointments, contacts and files at any time and from any place.

Guest Article: Finance with ITISeasy.business UE – Full-featured, Sophisticated and Adaptable

The subject of finance often divides opinion: Some consider it a science, while others simply an indispensable requirement for managing a company. While for some entrepreneurs “management by account balance” quickly exhausts the possibilities of strategic business, for others the constant overview of cash flow, EBIT and cost accounting is simply indispensable.

Asked about it, many say: This is the domain of well-known, expensive programs. But that’s not so: ITISeasy.business in particular offers the necessary control variables with its finance area, which is specially adapted to mid-size companies’ requirements. If you don’t want to deal with the bookkeeping behind it, you can simply outsource this service – a phone call is all it takes.

Let’s Diss Those from the Government!

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When we think of the administration in Germany in the context of digitalization, we often hear terms like “slow”, “outdated”, “backward” or “analog”. In comparison to other European countries, the administration is not up to date, has to catch up, act faster and finally become more digital. However, our public administration is in many areas no longer as dusty as its image suggests, but it is already very modern.

E-mail Archiving: You Should Be Aware of These Misconceptions

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More and more business communication is taking place via e-mail, and it has long been common practice for contracts and invoices to be sent only by e-mail. This speeds up and simplifies communication, especially in times when home offices is very popular. At the same time, many of those involved are not aware that those who do not archive their company e-mails in an audit-proof manner will end up in hot water faster than they think.

Looking back at 16th Univention Summit 2023: Open New Deal as the Basis for Sustainable and Open Digitalization

More than 630 IT experts and decision makers from politics, administration, education and the software industry met last week at our Univention Summit 2023 to “rock IT”. The musically inspired motto “Rock’n’Roles’n’Rights – WE ROCK IT!” referred to our focus this year on the further development and expansion of the Univention roles and rights model, but also to the digital turnaround that we want to implement this year together with our partners and customers.

Starting signal for the Sovereign Administrative Workplace

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A huge opportunity for digitalization of not just the administration!

Last week, the project “Sovereign Administrative Workplace” was officially launched at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and in the presence of the Federal CIO State Secretary Markus Richter: Working together with Dataport and a number of other manufacturers from the open source ecosystem, Univention is developing the software for the administrative workplace of the future.

Samba: Backup and Restore on UCS

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Do you administer any Windows machines in your UCS domain? Do you also use Samba to provide an Active Directory-compliant domain controller with a login service for the Windows clients? If the answer is yes, you may have wondered what backup and restore strategy is best suited for your environment. What data do you need to back up? How do you go about restoring a single domain controller (DC) in the event of an emergency? And what to do if the entire domain is affected by a failure?