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Public sector organisations are striving to offer better, more efficient services to their constituents. In today's economic climate in particular, with revenues dropping, budgets shrinking and public needs increasing, the role of the public sector Finance Manager has become even more challenging.

External conditions are changing rapidly; on one hand businesses are closing, and on the other, new federal infrastructure dollars are "up for grabs". Managing your finances and operations in today's environment requires government software solutions that are able to manage the unpredictable, swiftly, cheaply and in-house.

Advantage AGRESSO

AGRESSO's fully-integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for core accounting/ financials (AR, AP, GL), budgeting and forecasting, procurement, HR and payroll, project management; and managing field workers and asset maintenance staff, can help public sector organisations:

Improve efficiency with modern web-enabled ERP systems
Eliminate the administrative burdens of managing disparate systems and unmanageable interfaces
Identify opportunities to reduce spending
Eliminate the cost of maintaining legacy systems
Control risk and improve process controls
Respond to changing requirements easily and cost-effectively in-house

Challenges Facing Government Finance Leaders

The need for operational stability in the face of changing requirements

Regulatory changes like GASB, PSAB, re-organisations, public requests for information and even elections can all create unpredictable new requirements that a finance manager must take in stride.
Public sector Finance leaders must be able to understand and manage the financial and operational impact of change, while maintaining expected levels of transparency and accountability.

The need for cross-departmental cooperation

In a world where functional boundaries are blurring, many finance managers are partnering with operational departments, other similar organisations and third parties to minimise costs and optimise value.
This raises the challenge of standardisation and/or the ability to interface with other systems.

The need to replace disparate legacy systems

Finance managers often rely on an inefficient combination of independent, disjointed software applications (many of them out-of-date), spreadsheets, cumbersome interfaces and manual intervention to pull together the information they need.

This process is inefficient and error-prone
Reporting is rigid and difficult to change if a new requirement emerges
There is no organisation-wide visibility
Multiple maintenance agreements are burdensome (and some applications may even become unsupported)

The Scope of AGRESSO's Integrated Solution

AGRESSO was built from the ground up to replace multiple disparate systems and provide a coherent shared environment across the organisations. Public sector organisations benefit greatly when all these functions are available “under one roof”:

Core accounting/financials (AP/AR/GL) (including Fund and Encumbrance Accounting)
Budgeting and planning
Procurement
HR and payroll
Public works, field services, and asset maintenance
Project management
Employee self-service
Reporting and analytics

With a single integrated system, Finance Leaders enjoy vastly improved and punctual reporting, boosting visibility across the entire organisation – leading to better decision making and improved service to the public.

AGRESSO's Next Generation Advantage - The Ability to Respond to Change

With AGRESSO, Public Sector organisations can implement their ERP system in stages – as budgets allow - and increase the scope later on without disruption. This is coupled with the unique ability for users to make system changes using screen-based tools, without programming, recoding, or reliance on external IT resources.

In systems from other vendors, changes often require programming or expensive external consultants, leading to more risk of operational disruption and significantly higher costs. AGRESSO’s unique VITA Architecture empowers trained users to make changes to the system, as the occasion demands (and permissions permit).

By empowering customers to change their own systems in response to new requirements, the Total Cost of Ownership of the AGRESSO solution is significantly lower than other, more rigid systems by accounting for your mostly overlooked Total Cost of Change (TCC).

Integration with External Systems

Often Governmental organisations have best-of-breed government software solutions they want to keep using, or they want to phase out legacy systems in stages rather than all at once. In these cases, AGRESSO’s out-of-the-box XML web services and “business connectors” provide a modern infrastructure to connect with other systems. Interfaces to local government specific systems are available, allowing for leading land management, GIS, property taxation, permits and licensing systems to operate seamlessly with AGRESSO.

A Proven Solution

Well over a thousand public sector organisations worldwide, including cities and counties of all sizes use AGRESSO

The Agresso Advantage

Agresso's fully-integrated ERP systems for core accounting/financials, budgeting and forecasting, procurement, HR and Payroll, project management, and managing field workers and asset maintenance staff, can help local governments:

improve efficiency with modern web-enabled ERP systems
eliminate the administrative burdens of managing disparate systems and unmanageable interfaces
identify opportunities to reduce spending
eliminate the cost of maintaining legacy systems
control risks and improve process controls
respond to changing requirements easily and cost - effectively

The Ability To Respond to Change

Local governments can implement their ERP system in stages – as budgets allow, and increase scope later on without disruption. The ability for users to make system changes using screen-based tools, without reliance on programming or external IT.

In systems from other vendors, changes often require programming or expensive external consultants, leading to more risk of operational disruption and higher costs. Agresso’s unique Vita Architecture empowers trained users to make changes to the system, as the occasion demands (and permissions permit). For example:

Agresso has over 100 Government and Local Government bodies using the AGRESSO Business World (ABW) software.

Our solutions enables Government organisations to replace multiple, disparate third-party and internal systems, with a single centralised and integrated IT environment.

Agresso's Success

Agresso's success is underscored as the first company of its kind to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Kingdom's office of Government Commerce, offering all public sector organisations discounts on Agresso software and services.