The Revenue Commissioners is to increase investment in its core tax modelling application suite, to make data and business information more easily accessible.
The software is built using technology from SAS, a provider of business intelligence software and services. The Revenue’s Statistics Branch uses it to model and assess the implications of proposed budget options, and to present various scenarios to the Department of Finance and government.
The applications are also used to provide statistical services to the Revenue Board and to the legislative and business divisions within the Office.
The original applications were developed more than ten years ago. They have been continually upgraded since then, and although they still work well, it was decided to give the suite a business and technical overhaul.
The latest investment will allow for new business features as well as the chance to move to Java development and deployment platforms using the latest SAS tools.
‘We originally chose SAS for its ability to access and manage large amounts of data and apply complex analytics to that data,’ explained Paddy Molloy of the Revenue Statistics Branch. Core functions of the software, such as calculations, are still being used but the applications are being made more flexible and easy to use, he added.
The SAS software integrates with the Revenue’s existing corporate databases and its data warehouse. The move to a Web-based version will allow its business applications to be easily deployed.
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