Big ERP Players Courting Government Agencies
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 27, 2000

Event Summary

Those who have been disparaging ERP as a passT technology will have to do a double take at least in the public sector. There are strong indications of revived interest, as well as reports of major ERP contracts awarded to leading ERP players recently by the sector. Incidentally, as reported by Operations Management on-line on November 13, the Tallahassee-based Florida Retirement System (FRS) concluded in October its four-month search for a general ledger system with the purchase of PeopleSoft's General Ledger. The FRS back-office presently uses two PeopleSoft products and General Ledger provides the potential for an efficient systems interface, according to Eric Nelson, director of accounting. FRS has $120 billion in state pension fund assets...