UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems
He told Parliament spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that forming the group had already presented difficulties."What unsettled people at an early stage in the cluster formation was the thought among those people who had relatively up-to-date recent systems, including the Treasury, that they would have to quickly change to align with this new cluster approach, and that that was going to be cutting across their existing plans and existing contracts.
"So we had to work quite hard to show the overall benefits of the case of working together – the benefits of scale. In some cases, we were also saying, 'Look, this is a cross-government programme. This is expected of you.' He declined the opportunity to say all constituent departments were 100 percent behind moving to a single system, but instead pointed out that the Cabinet Office, his department, has had to move to a new cluster. It currently sits with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice on Oracle's"single operating platform."
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