Sirius IT has won the contract for the development and maintenance of the new case management system for the Norwegian Film Institute. Sirius IT won the contract in competition with three other suppliers.

The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) administers support for the Norwegian film production distributed on different arrangements: development support, production support, and launch support.

Sirius IT will develop a new case management system that handles the processing of these support schemes, from the received applications, evaluation of applications, support payment and follow-up of the ongoing film project. The solution will give employees at NFI a more efficient work space and also provide far better information about the status of each application process.

"We are proud to have won this contract with the Norwegian Film Institute," said Vidar Evensen, sales and marketing director at Sirius IT. "Development of case management systems that support mission-critical processes is our core business. We therefore see the contract as a confirmation of our solution concept for case handling and self-service systems."

"In the sales process Sirius IT convinced with very good preparation, good communication, very good understanding, good systems for project implementation and quality assurance procedures "says Jan Graff. Sirius IT convinces with methodology as the major IT companies and also a flexibility that is well suited for NFI, explains Graff. We need a new system that is more flexible, among other things, in relation to changes in regulations and subsidy schemes.

The Norwegian Film Institute

The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) was established on April 1st 2008 and is a merger of the Norwegian Film Fund, Norwegian Film Development, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Norwegian Film Commission.

NFI is the State administrative body for film policy and advisor in film policy issues.

The Norwegian Film Institute is governed by the Ministry of Culture. The department is headed by a board and Executive Director Nina Refseth. NFI consists of five different departments and approximately 90 employees and 350 million in funding.

NFIs support for the Norwegian film production is distributed as follows:

• Development Support (Scholarships, training, talent program and support for manuscript development)
• Production support (Grants for the development, production and release of feature films, documentaries, short films, television drama and computer games)
• Launch support (Launch of feature films, shorts and documentaries at home and abroad, film commission's work and launch support for Norwegian films abroad)

For further information

Norwegian Film Institute

Jan Graff, Director 
Tel: 913 00 343
E-mail: jan.graff@nfi.no
www.nfi.no