SSA NZ office wins multi-million Fiji Government deal

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 05 April 2006 20:13

IT Industry - Deals

The New Zealand office of enterprise business software and services supplier SSA Global, has won a multi-million dollar contract to supply its financial management solution to the Fiji Government.
The deal will see the SSA solution running on Windows NT implemented across 28 ministries - comprising 52 departments - throughout the Fiji Government within two-to-three years. SSA Global’s New Zealand office and Fiji Government’s management are currently involved in the implementation, while local support is being provided by Suva-based development company, Software Factory Ltd.

The rollout has commenced with four proof-of-concept Ministries, after which there will be three separate blocks of deployments consisting of eight Ministries in each deployment phase.

As part of its preferred supplier agreement, SSA Global has committed to training a team of highly skilled IT resources within the Fiji Government, to support functional and technical financial management requirements into the future.

Mr Aisake Taito, deputy secretary finance, Government of Fiji said, “We had a requirement for an integrated Financial Management Solution that would allow us to have timely, consistent & reliable information for decision making. SSA FM will allow us to achieve that objective. We now have access to flexible industry standard reporting tools and at the completion of the implementation, we will be able to use automated workflow to control and standardise our processes - resulting in enhanced visibility throughout our organisation.

“SSA Global’s customer-centric approach to provide a self sufficient environment that we can sustain locally was another major factor in our decision.”

Graeme Riley, SSA Global’s managing director (Pacific), said, “SSA Global is committed to supporting customers not only in their software decisions, but in developing the in-house expertise to manage their businesses more effectively.”

Semi Tukana, managing director of Software Factory, said, “I believe that, apart from the world-class financial management software offered, SSA Global’s professional conduct coupled with a workable solution, a realistic timeframe, and a competitive price bid presented the Fiji Government with a combination that was hard to beat.”