In a bid to decrease the costs and enhance services, the six London district have approved in implementing the same version of Oracle’s Release 12 ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning software. The involved boroughs have a combined population of 1.6 million, and these are Barking and Dagenham, Croydon, Havering, Brent, Lambert and Lewisham.
The deal arrangement as part of the Project Athena that aims to generate the foundations for an ICT platform for all London public sector organizations by regulating all corporate IT systems that includes all 32 London borough councils. To utilize the ERP suite as part of its transform government or t-Gov service offering, the boroughs have agreed on a four-year deal together with IT services firm Capgemini.
It aims to eliminate all the older IT systems, streamline processes in fields like payroll, HR, procurement and finance, it will also guarantee economies of scale and terminate unnecessary paperwork. It was important for councils to utilize the same system to save money without weakening the standard of services said by the executive director for finance and resources for Lambeth Council, Mike Suarez as he managed the procurement.
They have their own techniques of doing things, as all councils share the same support functions such as procurement, HR and finance, however if they can utilize the same system, they will streamline their processes and save money without reducing the services that they offer. He added that this is also about enhancing how they do business with their suppliers and allow their employees to do things effectively and easily.
It makes real savings for the taxpayer, managers will have the access in budgeting in real time and no need to complete endless paperwork for the plain work. By July 2013, the latest system are set to released and for an initial span of three years it will then be handled by Capgemini. It also outlined to introduce a number of its new associates onto the project, said by the IT services firm.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2195721/six-london-boroughs-to-install-oracle-erp-solution
http://www.uk.capgemini.com/news-centre/news/six-london-boroughs-to-install-oracle-erp-solution/
http://www.topix.com/uk/barking-and-dagenham
http://www.techinvestornews.com/Oracle/Latest-Oracle-News/six-london-boroughs-to-install-oracle-erp-solution
http://w.londonthenews.com/news/Computer+Industry/20120731/34144588/Six-London-boroughs-to-install-Oracle-ERP-solution.htm
