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Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Councils are to partner with Fujitsu Services for shared services. The shared service will be the first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution in local government shared and common between county councils and will underpin the Councils’ delivery of back office services including HR, finance and procurement.

The shared service also supports the Councils’ and Fujitsu’s wider aspirations to share further, delivering scalable capacity for further authorities of all types (counties, unitaries, districts, etc) to join the service in the future.

Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Councils signed the innovative shared service governance contract in February signalling the official start of the sharing.

Fujitsu has engineered this service by combining it’s own ERP hosting requirements to invest in an infrastructure that provides service to the councils’ on an entirely managed service basis whilst offering savings over the cost of traditional stand-alone ERP solutions.

The demand for outsourcing elements of the IT infrastructure continues as this article illustrates. It’s an interesting read, I wonder though how many people have considered the concept that I can afford to outsource it – but if for example next Wednesday I wanted to bring it back in-house – could I afford to do so?

Outsourcing can be a strategic enabler – you run the desktops, fix the costs (in essence so much per user per year), or it can be a great way of achieving something that might be to costly to do in-house – can you please support our desktop environment, firstly though we want Windows Vista, can you manage this, deploy the Vista build and port users over to the new desktop build? Getting a project manager, a team of desktop guys might be more expensive, than having your desktops managed by an outside party who’ll supply a new Vista pc anyway and load the applications needed.

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