With the economy putting pressure on IT budgets, growing demand for IT departments to support organisations’ business goals, and greater regulatory oversight, the procurement process is becoming more important. With that in mind, law firm Clarke Willmott has detailed its ‘ten commandments’ for anyone involved in public procurement. 1. Thou shalt not commit negotiations –…
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Finance Management
Grŵp Gwalia first HA live on Xchangewales
Grŵp Gwalia has become the first public-sector organisation to go live with all components of the Xchangewales e-procurement programme, sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government and delivered by Procserve. Xchangewales is a new programme which allows all public sector organisations in Wales to source, tender, evaluate, order and pay for goods and services at a…
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Spectrum Housing signs up for iSoft’s finance suite
Christchurch-based Spectrum Housing Group has signed contracts with iSoft Business Solutions for its Integra suite of web-enabled finance and purchasing applications. Integra will replace three disparate finance systems, each the result of acquisitions, giving users in its seven offices access to web-based services to raise purchase orders for online authorisation and access to a range…
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Kypera Financials chosen by North View
North View Housing Association has confirmed that it plans to deploy Kypera Financials by April 2010. The housing provider is currently using Sage. An existing Kypera Housing customer, Glasgow-based North View wanted the benefits of having its housing management and financial systems delivered by a single supplier. Jean Price, finance manager, North View Housing Association,…
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Kypera ousts SunSystems from Magna
Magna Housing Group has replaced its SunSystems finance system with an integrated package of applications from Kypera. Magna said that its previous SunSystems package could not keep up with the growing complexity of its business requirements, while the running costs of the package were increasing. The requirements for the new finance system included a Windows-based…
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IFRS – best practice or bust
The public sector is facing up to IFRS (international financial reporting standards) and seizing the opportunity to use the asset register to maximise business benefits. It’s true that the new IFRS reporting complexity, combined with an extraordinary increase in asset numbers, does present a series of challenges to financial departments. But in time, the new…
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