Example Azure Implementation for Government Agencies

June 13, 2018

Governments worldwide are looking for ways to enhance their ability to deliver services to their citizens. In this endeavor, they are adopting innovative methods that can not only enhance the service delivery capabilities, but also do it in the most cost-effective, secure, highly available, and highly performant environment. This paper describes an example architecture that can be used in such a project and explains how an architecture based on the Azure platform can help a government agency deliver tax-submission services to the end user.

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Located 25km north of Adelaide, South Australia, the City of Salisbury occupies an area of 158.1km2 extending from the shores of Gulf St Vincent to the Para Escarpment and the foothills of the Mt Lofty Ranges.

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