French Government awards ERP contract to Peoplesoft
P.J. Jakovljevic - November 10, 1999

Event Summary

On October 29, the French government awarded the first contract of its Accord Mission, a project to integrate computing across all state departments. The first project will see 15 ministries install an accountancy package from Peoplesoft, in conjunction with Sequent and French systems integrator, Steria. The three companies beat off competition from SAP with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Oracle with Cap Gemini. The government declined to put a value to the contract, but Peoplesoft claims it is one of the two biggest IT contracts awarded in France this year. At the moment, all French ministries operate different accountancy systems, and Peoplesoft says it is the first time the French government has invested in ERP...