Decision details

New Civica Financials User Interface

Decision Maker: Director of Resources/Deputy Chief Executive

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Council is currently in a contract with Civica Financials for our core financial system i.e. general ledger, creditors and debtors. Most users are currently on the rich-client version of the system which is no longer being supported. The new user interface is more user friendly and better to roll out to staff due to new functionality compared to the existing web version.
A recent demonstration of the UI system received positive feedback from financial staff members.
This decision to upgrade to UI would also extend the current support for rich-client during the project implementation period

Decision:

Option 2. As this is not a material change in the contract the decision has been signed off under delegated authority pursuant to Constitution Part 4 para 24.1(e).

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 - Roll out the current web version to all end users.
Option 2 - Upgrade to the new UI version and then roll out to staff. This would include new functionality and offer more flexibility for staff

Publication date: 21/09/2021

Date of decision: 21/09/2021