ERP/Finance System

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Dear Local Government Association,

Please could you provide the following information regarding your ERP / Finance system:
1.What ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) or Finance system is currently used?
2.When does your contract expire?
3.Do you have any planned upgrades of the software? If so, when?
4.Are you planning to go to market for a different ERP/ Finance system? If so, when?
5.How many users / licenses of the system do you have?
6.Who is the person responsible for your ERP / Finance system? Please provide full name, title and contact information if possible.

Yours faithfully,

Sally Hodges

FOI, Local Government Association

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Dear Sally,

 

Thank you for your request for information below. The Local Government
Association is not subject to the requirements of FOIA but we do act in
the spirit of the legislation where we are able to.

Below are the responses to your questions:

1.What ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) or Finance system is currently
used?  UNIT4 Business World ON Milestone 6

2.When does your contract expire? Our licence will expire when we cease to
pay annual licence support costs to Unit 4.  We have just gone through an
OJEU procurement for system support and maintenance which will cover the
next 6 years.

3.Do you have any planned upgrades of the software? If so, when?  We
propose to upgrade to Milestone 7 in the Autumn 2018
4.Are you planning to go to market for a different ERP/ Finance system? If
so, when? No
5.How many users / licenses of the system do you have? Just under 400
current users – package is for 10,000 licences.
6.Who is the person responsible for your ERP / Finance system? Please
provide full name, title and contact information if possible. we have
three members of staff who manage this.

 

Kind regards,

Maisie Lynch

LGA

 

 

From: Sally Hodges [mailto:[FOI #492397 email]]
Sent: 21 June 2018 10:39
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - ERP/Finance System

 

Dear Local Government Association,

Please could you provide the following information regarding your ERP /
Finance system:
1.What ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) or Finance system is currently
used?
2.When does your contract expire?
3.Do you have any planned upgrades of the software? If so, when?
4.Are you planning to go to market for a different ERP/ Finance system? If
so, when?
5.How many users / licenses of the system do you have?
6.Who is the person responsible for your ERP / Finance system? Please
provide full name, title and contact information if possible.

Yours faithfully,

Sally Hodges

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