Purpose

Ealing Council’s financial accounting
system is currently managed through Unit4’s Business World
(BW) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application hosted
‘on premise’ in the council’s
datacentre.  Unit4 has announced that it
will only provide Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions going
forward and that with effect from 31 December 2024, on-premise solutions will no longer be supported or
maintained.
 
As this is a business
critical system for which supplier support is required, this
decision is to move to a SaaS for both BW ERP and Financial
Planning and Analysis (FP&A), while addressing the additional
budget pressures and procurement risks.