Case Study: COMM-UNITY EDV GmbH achieves seamless, legally compliant e-government for Austrian municipalities with OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions

Empress Maria Theresa would be delighted: Austrian municipalities benefit from e-government in the cloud

COMM-UNITY EDV GmbH, a leading Austrian provider of e‑government software, faced a common public‑sector challenge: small municipalities needed to digitize complex, legally regulated administrative processes but lacked the expertise and capital to implement and operate compliant systems. Media discontinuity between structured data and unstructured content, new e‑government (ELAK) requirements, budgetary law changes and planned municipal mergers made a scalable, legally sound solution essential.

COMM-UNITY launched GeOrg, a preconfigured cloud platform built on SAP and OpenText Extended ECM (with OpenText Enterprise Scan) and offered as a rental SaaS model. The integrated solution eliminates media breaks, enforces sophisticated authorizations for legal compliance, supports new accounting and structural reforms, and drastically cuts costs compared with custom projects—already adopted by hundreds of municipalities (around 670 customers) and positioned for wider rollout.

Comm-Unity EDV GmbH

Michael Stark

Managing Director