The Isle of Man government is replacing its Oracle
Financials enterprise resource planning system with Microsoft
Axapta.
Isle of Man hopes that the new system will enable it to manage
its financial and business processes and will cover over 350
in-house users. The government expects the replacement system will
provide a better total cost of ownership and should last at least
five years.
The Isle of Man hopes the system will be more cost effective as
it will integrate Microsoft Data Center Server 2003, Exchange 2003,
SMS, Sharepoint Portal Server, Windows XP and Active Directory.
The government has a strategic partnership with Microsoft, which
means it has made an organisation-wide investment in its
technologies. The partnership is driven by a need to reduce costs
and stay within the annual IT budget of less than eight million
pounds and to support an integrated e-government policy.
Allan Paterson, director of the Isle of Man government’s
information systems division said: ‘We plan to use Microsoft Axapta
to manage general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable and
tax and treasury functions.’
The Axapta system will also be used in other departments
including health, education and treasury.