The X-Road was launched in 2001. At the beginning, it was developed as an environment that would facilitate making queries to different databases. By now, a number of standard tools have been developed for the creation of eServices capable of simultaneously using the data of different databases. These services enable to read and write data, develop business logic based on data etc.
The X-Road must enable to do any common data processing operation. Proceeding from this principle, several extensions have been developed for the X-Road: writing operations to databases, transmission of huge data sets between information systems, successive search operations of data in different data sheets, possibility to provide services via web portals, etc.
X-Road overviews, presentations and project materials:
The average number of monthly X-Road enquiries already amounts to 2.5 million with 3,068 million enquiries having been made by June 2006. 163,736 people, i.e. more than 12% of Estonia’s population, used X-Road services via different portals in 2006. The number of companies and public bodies among the X-Road users currently amounts to 28,300. 65 databases have been joined with the X-Road and offer their services over this environment.
By September 2006 X-road has:
~ 67 databases providing services
~ 392 institutions and companies using the services
~ 687 different services
In January 2003 X-road services were used 21 670 times.
In January 2004 X-road services were used 270 466 times.
In 2005 X-road services were used over 14 million times.
In 2006 X-road services were used over 29 million times.
In 2007 X-road services were used over 43 million times.
In 2008, over 100 organizations had joined X-road, it was used by 60 000 organizations.
