Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken

Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF) was a German public-law special-purpose association (Zweckverband) that operated as an IT system house for cities, municipalities and rural districts in Baden-Württemberg. It was formed on 1 January 2003 through the merger of three regional computing centres: Regionales Rechenzentrum Karlsruhe, Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Südlicher Oberrhein (Freiburg) and Kommunales Rechenzentrum Franken/Unterer Neckar (Heilbronn, Heidelberg). Its association territory covered 17,309 km², roughly 48 percent of the total area of Baden-Württemberg, and served a market of about 5,350,000 inhabitants. Its market share for leading solutions exceeded 90 percent within its existing territory. KIVBF was headquartered in Karlsruhe and maintained computing-centre locations in Karlsruhe, Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg and Heilbronn, where around 643 employees worked. As a full-service provider, it advised and supported customers from implementation through ongoing application and user support, optimising workflows through automation and integration with existing KIVBF solutions or external bodies. From 1 January 2013, the association provided IT services exclusively to its members: 510 cities and municipalities, 17 rural districts, 7 urban districts, 5 other public-law corporations, and the municipal utility companies wholly owned by members. Non-member municipal and public-law customers, as well as municipal commercial enterprises such as waste-disposal firms, hospitals and engineering offices, were served by the subsidiary KRBF GmbH, which had existed since 2001 as a joint production company and became wholly owned by KIVBF on 1 January 2003. In 2013, KIVBF co-founded endica GmbH with 14 municipal energy suppliers to support utilities in electricity, gas and water with IT and process services. Governance involved members shaping strategy through committees: technical advisory boards, an organisational advisory board, an administrative council, a strategy committee and the association assembly. Following an amendment to the ADV cooperation law in February 2018, KIVBF merged with Datenzentrale Baden-Württemberg and the computing centres KIRU and KDRS on 1 July 2018 to form Komm.ONE, a municipal IT service provider constituted as a legally capable public-law institution (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts) based in Stuttgart, supported by the municipal data-processing associations and the State of Baden-Württemberg.

The origins of KIVBF lie in the regional computing centres that served municipal administrations in Baden-Württemberg. Since 2001, the regional computing centres of the Southern Upper Rhine/High Rhine, Middle Upper Rhine/Northern Black Forest, and Franconia/Lower Neckar regions operated a joint production company named Kommunales Rechenzentrum Baden-Franken GmbH (KRBF). On 1 January 2003, the Zweckverband Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF) was created through the merger of Regionales Rechenzentrum Karlsruhe, Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Südlicher Oberrhein (Freiburg) and Kommunales Rechenzentrum Franken/Unterer Neckar (Heilbronn, Heidelberg). From that date, the Zweckverband KIVBF became the sole shareholder of KRBF GmbH, which continued to offer IT specialist solutions for customers who were not members of the Zweckverband. The association territory covered 17,309 km², about 48 percent of the total area of Baden-Württemberg, with a market of around 5,350,000 inhabitants. Its market share for leading solutions exceeded 90 percent within the existing territory. KIVBF was headquartered in Karlsruhe, with computing-centre locations in Karlsruhe, Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg and Heilbronn; at these four sites, independent companies existed whose tasks were limited to acting as property owners' associations. Around 643 employees worked across these locations. As a full-service provider, KIVBF advised and supported its customers from implementation through ongoing application and user support, optimising workflows through automation within solutions, connections to existing KIVBF solutions or to external bodies. From 1 January 2013, the Zweckverband provided its services exclusively to members. Members included 510 cities and municipalities, 17 rural districts, 7 urban districts, 5 other public-law corporations, and the municipal commercial enterprises wholly owned by members. Customers who were municipalities or other public-law corporations not members of the Zweckverband, as well as municipal commercial enterprises such as waste-disposal companies, hospitals and engineering offices, were served by KRBF GmbH. Also from 1 January 2013, endica GmbH — founded in 2013 together with 14 municipal energy supply companies — took over the support of energy supply companies in the IT area, particularly in the electricity, gas and water sectors, including data processing, data storage, data transmission to involved parties, and process and service services. Members shaped the company's strategy through participation in committees. Technical advisory boards discussed topic-related technical contributions and passed topics and proposals to the organisational advisory board, which in turn advised the administrative council. Together with the strategy committee and the association assembly, the administrative council made decisions. After a corresponding amendment to the ADV cooperation law in February 2018, Datenzentrale Baden-Württemberg and the computing centres KIVBF, KIRU and KDRS merged on 1 July 2018 into a joint municipal IT service provider named ITEOS, a legally capable institution under public law (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts) based in Stuttgart. The supporting bodies (Träger) of ITEOS are the special-purpose associations of the municipal data-processing association and the State of Baden-Württemberg. The merged entity was later known as Komm.ONE.

• 2018

  In February, the ADV cooperation law was amended. On 1 July, Datenzentrale Baden-Württemberg and the computing centres KIVBF, KIRU and KDRS merged into a joint municipal IT service provider named ITEOS (later Komm.ONE), based in Stuttgart.

• 2013

  From 1 January, KIVBF provided IT services exclusively to members. endica GmbH was founded together with 14 municipal energy supply companies to support utilities in IT and process services.

• 2003

  On 1 January, the Zweckverband Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken (KIVBF) was formed through the merger of Regionales Rechenzentrum Karlsruhe, Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Südlicher Oberrhein (Freiburg) and Kommunales Rechenzentrum Franken/Unterer Neckar (Heilbronn, Heidelberg). KIVBF became sole shareholder of KRBF GmbH.

• 2001

  Regional computing centres of Southern Upper Rhine/High Rhine, Middle Upper Rhine/Northern Black Forest and Franconia/Lower Neckar operated a joint production company named Kommunales Rechenzentrum Baden-Franken GmbH (KRBF).

Public-law municipal IT full-service provider for cities, municipalities and districts in Baden-Württemberg, with a dominant share of leading solutions in its territory.

• Full-service IT solutions for municipal administrations

  Advice and support from implementation to ongoing application and user support, with workflow optimisation through automation and integration.

• KRBF GmbH IT specialist solutions

  IT specialist solutions for customers who were not members of the Zweckverband KIVBF.

• endica GmbH utility IT services

  IT support for municipal energy supply companies in electricity, gas and water, including data processing, storage, transmission and process services.

1. 1Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken – Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
2. 2Kommunale Informationsverarbeitung Baden-Franken – Wikidatawikidata.org