ViaParl: Automation of parliamentary motions

Challenge

The Valais Parliamentary Service faced a number of challenges in digitizing the monitoring of parliamentary procedural requests.

The two most important included:

• Involvement of all stakeholders: parliamentary service, government, administration, committees, etc.
• Time pressure: Swiss law stipulates that the Valais State Council must respond to a petition within a certain period

Solution

The solution was the implementation of ViaParl by adesso. The application is based on a Business Process Execution Engine (Camunda), through which the process of monitoring interventions can be automated in a robust, efficient and scalable way.

adesso provided two types of services: On the one hand, the analysis, modeling of the process and the capture of user stories and test scenarios; on the other, the architecture, implementation and execution of the tests.

Benefits

ViaParl ensures compliance with the rules for processing an initiative and supports the conduct of parliamentary sessions. It also has the following advantages:

• Increased speed
• Optimization of costs
• Facilitation of traceability
• Decrease in manual workload
• Simplified integration into other systems