The Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) is an IT system provided by the European Commission to help social security institutions across the EU exchange information more rapidly and securely, replacing paper-based exchanges with a European-wide electronic system using structured electronic documents (SEDs).

The European Commission also provided a Reference Implementation for a National Application (RINA), consisting of a collection of infrastructure and user interface, repository, communication, integration and publishing services, as a temporary solution to the countries that had not yet developed their own National Applications to start their implementation of EESSI.

Effective January 2022 the European Commission will hand over the RINA development, maintenance, training and support services to the participating institutions, which can continue to use RINA and secure support services or can develop their own National Applications adapted to the needs of national institutions in their own area.

Phoenix IT offers professional services in regard to the implementation, configuration and support of EESSI, RINA, EESSI-compliant National Applications as well as Access Points (AP) and National Gateways (NG). Our EESSI-specialized team has extensive experience and deep expertise in the implementation, configuration and support of EESSI, RINA, APs and NGs and are highly knowledgeable of the social security domains and business use cases.

Additionally, our EESSI team implemented several EESSI-certified National Application that are able to handle large volumes of cases and are designed and developed according to the sector specific national business use cases.

Over 200 social security institutions currently benefit from our EESSI-related services. If you would like to learn more about our capabilities and success stories and to discuss your institution’s current challenges and needs in regard to EESSI, please get in touch.

Services for RINA
  • RINA bug fixing and application enhancements.
  • Infrastructure provisioning, configuration and optimization, on-premises and on cloud.
  • Installation and configuration of all required software components (Apache Tomcat, Elasticsearch stack, Relational database, Bonita BPM, Holodeck, etc.).
  • Installation and configuration of RINA application, and sign-up to Access Point (AP).
  • Integration with 3rd party applications.
  • Management of certificates and Institution Repository (IR).
  • Training services on RINA features and functionality.
  • User and access management for staff according to organizational structures and roles.
  • Ongoing infrastructure operational support, maintenance, updates and performance tuning.
  • Ongoing Level 1, 2 and 3 Support.
  • Requirements and gap analysis and guidance for decisions on RINA vs. EESSI-compliant National Application (RINA only, RINA + National Applications, National Applications only).
  • Requirements analysis and guidance for decisions on National Gateways (NG).
  • Reengineering of national business processes in the context of EESSI.
  • Design, development and deployment of National Application.
  • Implementation of national business processes into the National Application.
  • Integration of National Application with legacy and 3rd party applications.
  • Certification of National Application.
  • Training services on National Application features and functionality.
  • Ongoing National Application operational support, maintenance, updates and performance tuning.
  • Ongoing Level 1, 2 and 3 Support.
  • Infrastructure provisioning, configuration and optimization, on-premises and on cloud.
  • Installation and configuration of all required software components (Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, etc.).
  • Installation and configuration of Access Points (AP).
  • Management of certificates and Institution Repository (IR).
  • Implementation of National Access Services.
  • Training services on Access Point (AP) features and functionality.
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting of data exchange messages.
  • Ongoing infrastructure operational support, maintenance, updates and performance tuning.
  • Ongoing Level 1 and 2 Support.