Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The 'City of Light' Illuminates With SAP: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
The 'City of Light' Illuminates With SAP: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "As part of the selection process, Paris city officials evaluated several software vendors and consulted with comparable city governments, including Vienna, Madrid and Paris sister city Rome, all which have chosen SAP. In addition to extensive public sector experience, the city was also seeking a solution that would support its move to an open source environment. City officials were impressed by SAP's accomplishments in this area, such as porting SAP solutions to run on Linux as early as 1999 and the company's continuing support for open source databases. City officials also consider SAP NetWeaver� a great technical platform to power the city's current and future application infrastructure, as the platform's open and standards-based approach allows customers the broadest possible choice in their technology road maps.
'The financial system will be the backbone that allows us to manage all the processes of both the department and the city,' said Pierre Guinot-Delery, general secretary, Paris City Council.
Accenture, with the contribution of SAP Consulting, has been selected to manage the implementation, training and rollout of the financial system. mySAP ERP will be used by up to 2,000 users progressively from beginning of the first quarter of 2007 until completion of the rollout at the beginning of 2008."
'The financial system will be the backbone that allows us to manage all the processes of both the department and the city,' said Pierre Guinot-Delery, general secretary, Paris City Council.
Accenture, with the contribution of SAP Consulting, has been selected to manage the implementation, training and rollout of the financial system. mySAP ERP will be used by up to 2,000 users progressively from beginning of the first quarter of 2007 until completion of the rollout at the beginning of 2008."
