The Australian Taxation Business office is set to combine a new API gateway into its e-commerce platform to increase how digital expert services are consumed by its tax and tremendous customers.
A lot more than 18 months following it went searching for a substitution e-commerce platform, the countrywide income collection agency has settled on the initial of two underpinning elements.
The agency struck a three-12 months offer with Sydney-based digital product or service advancement business Terem Technologies previous thirty day period to deliver digital expert services gateway (DSG) expert services.
The firm, whose earlier customers contain Qantas, Services NSW, IAG and MYOB, specialises in constructing personalized software program, internet site and cellular apps, according to its internet site.
An ATO spokesperson explained to iTnews that the $six.seven million agreement will involve “the shipping and delivery of an API gateway, an administration portal and a developer portal”.
In accordance to the primary tender, the DSG will “fulfil the finish life-cycle administration for APIs” by handling “exchange[s] with the around-serious-time expert services of these back again-conclude systems”.
The ATO said this would enable customers to “interact and consume fast, compact and knowledge driven services” by means of their software program.
But it is now not clear whether or not the ATO will commence with the 2nd part of the proposed new e-commerce platform or augment the current six-12 months-previous platform.
The current platform takes advantage of equipment to equipment variety messaging to interact with taxpayers, tremendous resources and other nominated intermediaries like tax specialists.
It sits powering numerous digital expert services these as cash flow tax and employer obligations by means of courses like single touch payroll.
“The DSG will be built-in with an improvement of the current platform,” a spokesperson said.
“It is not a substitution as for each the primary necessity of backwards compatibility with current technologies and designs.”
As section of the December 2018 request for data, the ATO also went looking for a digital reporting channel (DRC) to turn out to be the agency’s foreseeable future messaging platform.
With each other, the DSG and DRC ended up meant to assure the ATO could satisfy the objective of its digital expert services modernisation application.
The application aims to accommodate expanding demand for its digital expert services by ensuring systems are minimal-touch and centred around “digital events by means of user’s purely natural systems”.
APIs, for occasion, ended up envisioned to mature from 70 in 2014 to far more than 600 by 2020, according to the RFI files.
The ATO was also, nonetheless, open to modernising its six-12 months-previous e-commerce platform to deliver digital expert services, messaging requirements and other abilities “on a considerably more substantial scale”.
The spokesperson said the “technical implementation of DRC will be decided if and when the ATO decides to commence with it”.
The agency is also nonetheless to determine how the DSG will be hosted.