Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Certus Solutions have been
selected by the United Kingdom Home Office to deliver a new enterprise resource
planning (ERP) system designed to transform the way the Home Office delivers
back-office services across finance, procurement, human resources (HR),
customer service and payroll-related functions. The two-year contract, valued
at approximately £20 million, was awarded after a competitive tendering process
and under the U.K. government’s G-Cloud (G8) supplier framework.
The goal of the project is
to help the Home Office reduce operational costs, increase operational
efficiencies and improve service levels through adoption of new technology
applications and processes across its HR, finance, procurement, payroll and
customer service functions.
The G-Cloud framework is
managed by Crown Commercial Service (CCS), which supports the UK public sector
to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services.
The ERP system, known as
Metis, will be configured on the Oracle Cloud platform, drawing on Accenture’s
Enterprise Services for Government approach to implementing
efficient and digitally enabled back-office service functions for governments
and Certus Solutions’ engage.gov™templated
solution and accelerator for government.
“The Home Office is
committed to cross-government alignment of back-office services” said Rich
Hornby, director of finance and estates at the Home Office. “This is an
exciting project that will enable the Home Office to embrace opportunities for
best practice ways of working in line with other world class organisations. We
look forward to working with our implementation partners to achieve
improvements which will simplify processes and free our people up to deliver
the important work of the Department: keeping citizens and the country secure.”
As project lead, Accenture
will be responsible for all programme management, business change, technical
integration and client reporting requirements. Certus Solutions with
Accenture will deliver the functional configuration of the platform. Together
the two companies will help the Home Office transfer applications to a
cloud-based software as a service model and support the adoption of the
technology by almost 30,000 users in the U.K. and overseas. The project is one
of the largest Oracle Cloud implementations by a U.K. government department
to-date.
“We are delighted to be
selected for this project and look forward to helping the Home Office meet its
digital transformation goals through the deployment of cloud and mobile
technologies,” said Mark Lyons,
who leads Accenture’s Health & Public Service business in the U.K.
Mark Sweeny,
chief executive of Certus Solutions, said, “We look forward to teaming with
Accenture to deliver this exciting project for the Home Office. Certus has
extensive proven experience deploying Oracle Cloud solutions for government
departments, including the U.K. Office for National Statistics and HM Treasury.
We look forward to helping the Home Office achieve its vision for best-practice
cloud-based service delivery over the coming years.”
Learn more about Accenture’s
business in the U.K. and our public safety
business globally.
About
Accenture
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global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and
solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40
industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and
technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable
value for their stakeholders. With more than 411,000 people serving clients in
more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the
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About
Certus Solutions
Certus Solutions is a
multi-award winning global Oracle Platinum implementation partner for Oracle
Cloud Applications and Oracle’s UK and Ireland HCM Specialised Cloud Partner
2017 for Financials, Procurement, Human Capital Management, Payroll and Talent
Acquisition. For more information visit www.certus-solutions.com