You asked
I am writing to you to request information concerning the types of accounting software and applications that may be in use by your organisation.
What financial accounting software do you use?
Who supplies your financial accounting software (name of vendor or supplier)?
What was the original date of purchase or contact start date for your accounting software?
When is the contract renewal or expiry date for your accounting software?
If relevant, what is the cost of annual support and maintenance (last financial year April 2016- March 2017) for your accounting software?
Is Your IT in-house or outsourced, if outsourced, who is it outsourced to, and when is this contract up for renewal?
Could you confirm if your organisation has any applications (computer systems) running on the Fujitsu (formerly ICL) VME operating system?
If so, please list the names of these applications and their main role within your organisation?
Please also confirm if you have applications;
a) Operating on any other legacy platform such as OpenVME, IBM iSeries or written in legacy code such as Powerbuilder, COBOL etc. ?
b) Any operating system considered expensive or (technically) challenging to enabling digital transformation?
c) That are critical to the business but are at risk due to the scarcity of ageing support personnel or limited documentation?
Please confirm if these applications have been developed in-house i.e. they are bespoke to your organisation and that you own the source code.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Answers to your questions are as follows:
Real Asset Management (RAM fixed asset register) and Fusion Financials
Real Asset Management Plc and Oracle
RAM approximately 2011, Oracle Fusion October 2016
We own the RAM license, the Fusion renewal date is December 2023
RAM £7,620 including VAT, Fusion via Certus Solutions is £170,000 including VAT
Our IT is in-house.
No, we do not have any applications (computer systems) running on the Fujitsu (formerly ICL) VME operating system?
Not applicable as related to Q7
a) We do not have any other legacy platform such as OpenVME, IBM iSeries or written in legacy code such as Powerbuilder, COBOL etc.
b) We do not have any operating system considered expensive or (technically) challenging to enabling digital transformation
c) We do not have any operating system that is critical to the business but are at risk due to the scarcity of ageing support personnel or limited documentation.
We have mitigated all Single Points of Failure due to the scarcity of ageing support personnel or limited documentation.
If this question is with regards to those in questions 9a,b,c then we do not have any applications which have been developed in-house that fall into the category of the questions, however we have systems which have been developed in-house and we own the source code.