The BOV is geographically split between its main office in Bonn and a branch office in Berlin where, amongst other things, tasks in the areas of policy, standards and co-ordination are performed. All the workstations are networked in order that staff can perform their tasks. The Berlin branch office is linked over a leased line. Every employee can call up the standards and regulations to which his work is subject, along with forms and document templates, at any time. All the relevant products of the work are placed in a central database.
Draft documents are exclusively prepared, distributed and signed in electronic form.
To implement and support all the necessary functionality, an IT department has been set up in Bonn. Both in Berlin and in Bonn the clients have been combined into appropriate groups. All 130 clients have virtually the same configuration but there are differences between them as regards the applications, integration into the network and the underlying infrastructure. Group C1 represents the 5 clients in the HR Department. They have access to server S1 in the HR Department in Bonn.