Digitaal Vlaanderen | Government goes paperless: A digital transformation story

Digitaal Vlaanderen offers solutions for the digital transformation of Flemish and local government services. MAGDA is the central platform of the Flemish government in Belgium, facilitating the secure and smooth exchange of data, including personal data, between governmental organizations. To fulfil its aim, clean and secure coding is a must.

The Challenge

• Improving the digital services of the government to support citizens, companies and organizations
• Ensuring maximum reliability, security and privacy of the MAGDA platform

The SIG Solution

• Continuous monitoring of the maintainability and security by the Sigrid software assurance platform
• Verification of compliance with governmental software standards, including GDPR  
• Expert advice on cloud-ready architecture and optimal set-up of CI/CD processes
• Guidance on the process of modernization with a prioritized action list to keep the software future proof

The Result

• Continual awareness by both development and management teams on quality of the software and architecture
• Opportunities for management to steer on quality and allocate the right budget
• Improved software quality, making code easier to change and avoiding higher future costs
• Compliance with relevant standards for accountability to stakeholders

“As management, we wanted to ensure that the entire code that has been delivered would remain maintainable and cost effective. The journey with SIG gives us many deep insights and helps us to keep our MAGDA platform future proof.”

– Kelly Bonneure, MAGDA Product Owner at Digitaal Vlaanderen