The Queensland government has inked a five-year, shared services
deal as part of its electronic document and records management
system strategy.
The deal, covering more than 30 departments, with LogicaCMG and
the Dicom Group involves implementing the Ascent Capture platform
across government as the standard application for information
capture. It is one of many shared services initiatives currently
being rolled out to standardize processes and record
management.
Dicom's Ascent Capture platform collects paper, electronic
documents and forms transforming them into retrievable content that
reside in the organization's business applications and
databases.
LogicaCMG's ability to meet compliance directives was central to
the deal, according to a government spokesman. The Ascent platform,
which also supports centralized functions such as finance, HR,
technology, property and facilities management, will be used to
process millions of documents received across each department every
month. It will reduce operating expenses with lower data entry
costs and faster access to information. The platform will also
interact with a number of Shared Service Providers (SSP) where the
captured data is used for further processing such as purchase
orders and invoice processing.
The shared services model is being employed by a number of state
governments across Australia in a bid to achieve cost savings.
Western Australia is a prime example where the government will
save $50 million a year by standardizing disparate finance and
payroll systems on Oracle.
Michael Cawsey, Dicom Australia managing director, said the deal
positions the company as a major player in providing strategic
shared services applications. By partnering, Cawsey said Dicom was
able to use LogicaCMG's local expertise.
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