County tests financial solution
- By Dibya Sarkar
- Oct 12, 2001
Orange County, Fla., will be testing American Management Systems Inc.'s
upgraded financial management product to handle the government's financial
and procurement services via the Web.
The product, AMS Advantage 3.0 Financial, is the only totally Web-based
administrative solution for state and local governments in the market, said
Donna Morea, executive vice president and general manager of the Fairfax,
Va.-based company's state and local division.
The solution has been redesigned and "rearchitected," she said, to increase
efficiency in the way governments handle purchasing and the way end users
can configure the system, such as setting up accounts, automating business
rules and doing different kinds of reporting.
Rafael Mena, Orange County's development manager, said the government
plans to migrate its present applications to a more open architecture. The
county's current financial system resides on its mainframe computer, and
officials want to move it to a Web-based architecture.
The county provides bid information on its Web site now ({http://www.onetgov.net}
www.onetgov.net), but Mena said the new product would enable vendors to
enter information via the Web as well as do invoicing, something not offered
now.
He said 30 government representatives from the information technology
department and other agencies are reviewing the county's business processes.
The county government, with headquarters in downtown Orlando, has about
6,000 employees, including 150 IT workers.
Morea said the product is scalable to work in city, county and state
governments. About 240 government clients use the current AMS product. The
upgrade will be offered in December.