Focus on Finance - Spring 2014 - Shellharbour City Council turns to TechnologyOne for future-proof software

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Shellharbour City Council turns to TechnologyOne for future-proof software

Shellharbour City Council has purchased TechnologyOne's enterprise solution to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and future-proof its operations.

"We originally set out to purchase a strong asset management product that integrated into our existing TechnologyOne Financials product, but we quickly identified the benefit of an enterprise-wide solution," said Group Manager Information & Customer Services Harin Perera.

"We come from a non-integrated, best-of-breed approach and what we wanted was a tightly integrated, future-proof product.

"We were struggling to deliver online services and mobility with our current suite of products, and were conscious that it wasn't even on the road map for a lot of those vendors. A transition to the cloud is also firmly in our strategy moving forward, and we needed to find a partner who could work with us to deliver that.

"Council has an objective to replace all our desktops with laptops to have a truly mobile workforce. With mobility built into its products, an ability to deliver cloud-based solutions, and continuing significant investment into future-proofing its products, TechnologyOne's software really supported that vision."

The power of a single, integrated enterprise solution
Mr Perera said Council is anticipating cost and time savings by shifting from a best-of-breed to an enterprise approach.

"We will see significant cost benefits by consolidating products from multiple vendors into a single, integrated solution. We also expect time savings, as we will use mobile technology to automate many manual processes and reduce transaction time across the enterprise," he said.

"We already have finance, asset managers and maintenance people working within the one system and delivering services to the community in a much more efficient fashion."

On time, on budget implementation
Shellharbour City Council has gone live with TechnologyOne Human Resource & Payroll, and Asset Management - including Mobile to an initial group of 17 devices.

"We have rolled out phase one of mobile asset management, rollout to the full 70 devices will happen over the next three months," Mr Perera said.

"With just the limited number we've rolled out, Mobile Asset Management is already allowing our asset people to better monitor their service levels. We expected a lot of push back on mobile devices and its very pleasing to say that takeup has been good."

The first phase implementation came in on time and on budget, due to a strong collaborative relationship between TechnologyOne and Shellharbour City Council, as well as Council's dedication to the project. The second phase of the enterprise solution will be implemented in 2015.

"We found the OneCouncil approach was a very efficient and agile implementation approach. It certainly sped up implementation, and it gave us a good set of proven practice business processes," Mr Perera said.

Enterprise software, incredibly simple
Council is now using TechnologyOne's Ci Anywhere product, which was released in February 2014 and is the current generation of the company's Connected Intelligence (Ci) platform. Ci Anywhere provides a simple and easy way forward to embrace smart mobile devices and new concepts.

"We hadn't really changed our systems over the last ten years and we wanted to introduce something new that was really leading edge," Mr Perera said.

"We've rolled out Ci Anywhere to a small group in a limited fashion, and they already can't wait to get their hands on the full product. It's refreshing to see a vendor that is actually pushing the industry into the future."

TechnologyOne Executive Chairman Adrian Di Marco said Shellharbour City Council will gain a competitive advantage by using TechnologyOne's cutting edge technology.

"We are seeing more and more organisations switching to TechnologyOne after abandoning our competitors' business models, which are outdated, obsolete and lack accountability," Mr Di Marco said.

"As well as benefiting from the power of a single, integrated enterprise solution, Shellharbour City Council has bought into a solution which adapts and evolves, positioning them well to harness the full value of smart mobile devices and other emerging technologies.

"Ci Anywhere's support of smart mobile devices offers unprecedented flexibility to mobilise our customers' workforces, and its beautiful design and ease of use truly raises the bar for enterprise software."

 

technologyoneFor further information please contact Peter Fulton, Regional Manager on 8373 8520 or visit www.TechnologyOneCorp.com/LocalGovernment.

 

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