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Adopting a digital-first approach to service development unlocks a wide range of benefits. For citizens, the digital channel means less waiting, greater accessibility and more choice. For governments, APIs, B2B integration, managed file transfer and content collaboration technologies can help to reduce costs, enhance services, and enable new public-private partnerships. Recovering billions in lost tax dollars worldwide The IRS faced the challenge of building a platform capable of exchanging data securely with global financial partners within just six months. Today, the IRS supports 600,000 partners on a secure, scalable cloud platform, helping it to recover $8.7 billion in lost tax dollars globally. > LEARN HOW THE IRS DID IT Supercharging trade in Southeast Asia The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a mission to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development through regional collaboration. By replacing manual customs processes with a digital platform, ASEAN is enabling member states to release cross-border cargo up to 50% faster. > READ THE ASEAN CASE STUDY NOW axway.com SUCCESS STORY For the IRS, hidden overseas holdings are fair game With external collaboration made possible by Axway, the Internal Revenue Service recovers $8.7B in lost tax dollars globally Industry Federal Government Challenge The IRS faced the need to comply with legislation requiring reporting of all foreign financial accounts of U.S. taxpayers and developing a secure data exchange system to include hundreds of thousands of global partners and do so within 6 months. Solution AXWAY AMPLIFY™ Results • The cloud provides security and isolation from the agency's internal IT network • Self-service enables personnel and partners to on-board and manage accounts • Elastic model to manage processing peaks and valleys is budget friendly • On-time delivery meets a tight public project completion schedule • Recognized by ACT-IAC as an Excellence.gov award finalist Axway has a strong history of partnering with government agencies and other public organizations to provide data integration solutions that enable them to meet critical policy initiatives, laws and compliance regulations. When U.S. congress passed the Federal Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010 to enforce reporting of financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in Foreign Financial Institutions (FFIs) and Host Country Tax Authorities (HCTAs), the IRS needed a way to ensure secure data exchange between U.S. tax authorities and financial institutions around the world. This demanded an unprecedented degree of collaboration among all parties involved as well as a substantial, multi-year planning effort combining the realms of technology, federal budget funding and project management. The IRS looked to a consortium of partners, including Axway, to create the data integration framework needed to make it happen. In the end, the solution helped FATCA pave the way for better international tax cooperation and data exchange. Initial conservative estimates put recovered tax revenue of about $8.7 billion over 10 years. axway.com SUCCESS STORY The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ASEAN supercharges trade in Southeast Asia with electronic transfer for key customs documents Since 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has strived to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development through regional collaboration. Today, ASEAN comprises ten member states: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. ASEAN knows that fast and efficient trade between its members is a powerful way to stimulate economic growth. To incentivize intraregional trade, ASEAN countries have agreed to preferential tariffs for nearly all locally sourced goods, creating and expanding markets for these products. However, facilitating the smooth movement of goods within the region presented some tough challenges. ASEAN's rules required traders to produce written proof that products were produced in the region before preferential tariffs could be applied. Manual processes drive costs In the past, shipping goods between ASEAN countries depended heavily on manual, paper-based processes. In some cases, information recorded on paper customs documents had to be hand-delivered by couriers and then re-keyed into more than 20 different electronic systems. As well as driving up the cost and complexity of the shipping process, this manual way of working dramatically increased the risk of human error. If errors crept into the paperwork or key documents were missing, containers often needed to be held at port for up to 14 days — increasing costs further still. In a landmark agreement in 2007, the leaders of the ASEAN countries adopted the ASEAN Community Blueprint. This agreement committed to transform ASEAN into a highly competitive single market and production base by 2015, fully integrated into the global economy. To achieve this goal, the organization Industry Government Geography Asia Pacific Challenge Swap a paper-based approach to customs for a swift, secure, and accurate electronic system. Solution Axway B2Bi Results ASEAN replaced slow and costly customs processes with a digital platform, enabling member states to rapidly exchange cross-border cargo documentation. Build accessible, high-quality public services

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