Legacy ERP Systems Get Upgrades Amid the COVID Pandemic
Enterprise resource planning systems are foundational to efficiently run government organizations. Here’s how three jurisdictions navigated their modernization plans through COVID-19. Shutterstock.com
It’s no small feat to overhaul a major government system. And an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is at the heart of an organization’s operations, fundamental to smooth day-to-day functioning. An ERP upgrade can take six months to a year, Oracle reports. It requires significant time and resources to modernize systems that bring together financial and human resources information from across disparate sources.
COVID-19 makes it all the more difficult. Just at a time when it is essential to get functions such as finance and budgeting onto cloud-based platforms, government IT hasn’t been able to collaborate shoulder to shoulder. Tech leaders have had to balance the urgent need for change against the