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Govt promises integrated system soon |
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IT Web.com |
| Source Date: |
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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South Africa |
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) will announce the roll out of the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMS) very soon.
Speaking at the annual GovTech conference, in Durban, this morning, minister Richard Baloyi emphasised that by “soon” he really does mean soon and not a decade-long wait.
“The process to complete the remaining modules of the IFMS is under way. Already five of the nine modules have been configured as part of the IFMS implementation.”
The completed modules include asset management, procurement management, master data management, catalogue management and human resource management.
The IFMS is a strategic project, which was approved by Cabinet in 2005 to replace current legacy transversal applications in use in government, specifically the Basic Accounting System (BAS), the Personnel and Salary System (Persal), as well as the Logistics Management System (LOGIS).
Upon completion, the IFMS will consolidate and renew government's back-office applications, and will include other modules such as business intelligence across both national and provincial government departments, according to Baloyi.
Countering crisis
In August, the State IT Agency (SITA) published a tender worth “at least several billion rand”, according to industry players.
The advertisement was for elements of the IFMS. In its early stages, the transversal system was speculated to cost around R4 billion.
The software services tender was split into four modules: core financial system, inventory management system, payroll system, and data exchange system.
One executive, who asked not to be named, says winning one or more of the modules would have a significant impact on a company. “It would certainly go a long way towards countering the effects of the economic crisis. For some businesses it may even be a question of survival.”
In September last year, SITA admitted that integrating the software programs selected to drive the various modules of the system was problematic.
IFMS is a joint project of National Treasury, the DPSA and SITA. It now includes the Department of Defence and the South African Police Service as observers.
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