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INDUSTRY
Government
GEOGRAPHY
North America
CHALLENGES
The Office of the Comptroller
of Maryland plays a vital role in
many administrative processes
across the state, including payroll
for government employees.
How can the agency exchange
financial data securely, reliably,
and in full compliance with
applicable regulations?
SOLUTION
• Axway SecureTransport
• Axway Syncplicity
RESULTS
The agency is consolidating
its file-transfer workloads to
a highly available instance of
SecureTransport, offering a single
point of control for more efficient
management and governance.
Office of the
Comptroller of Maryland
Agency maintains rock-solid security and
supports service innovation with a central
file-sharing platform
In the state of Maryland, the Office of the Comptroller is responsible for key
administrative processes including the collection of taxes and disbursement
of salaries and wages to state workers. Each year, the agency collects
approximately $16 billion in tax revenues and pays more than 100,000
government employees.
To drive these processes reliably and efficiently, the agency must exchange
financial data with a wide range of stakeholders, including other state
government departments, banks and financial services providers, public
universities, and thousands of individual taxpayers throughout the state.
Keith Thompson, IT Systems Specialist at the Office of the Comptroller of
Maryland, takes up the story: "Like many organizations that manage large
amounts of financial data, we rely on the mainframe to process tax and payroll
information. To carry out our responsibilities, we must share this mainframe
data with the platforms used by our banking and government partners, which
include a mixture of mainframes and distributed systems. Even though our
file sizes and volumes are relatively small, they support millions of dollars in
payments — so moving these files reliably is absolutely essential."
Adapting to fast-moving regulations
Over the past decade, the digital channel has exploded in popularity across
all industries. As an increasing amount of public and private services move
online, regulatory requirements around information security and data
governance have also grown dramatically. In highly regulated industries,
keeping pace with these changes is critical — but legacy systems can make
it difficult to adapt quickly to an evolving compliance landscape.
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