TechnologyOne claims 21 Oracle scalps with WA financial-systems win

The loss of Western Australia’s doomed Shared Corporate Services project will see Oracle lose 21 state-government agencies as customers after local vendor TechnologyOne was named to supply cloud and on-premise financial-management systems in a significant contract win.

The deal will see TechnologyOne – which already delivers its solutions to five WA agencies including WA TAFE, the Corruption and Crime Commission and Legal Aid – roll out its OneGovernment software to support the transitioning agencies by the end of this year.

WA departments covered by the deal include the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority; Ombudsman WA; Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission; Department of Culture and Arts; Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and many others.

Three agencies – the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC), Tourism WA and Department of Water – will implement the software as a cloud-based solution, running entirely off of TechnologyOne-owned infrastructure and delivered on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis.

WA’s Shared Corporate Services project was discontinued in 2011 after the state government targeted the shared-services arrangement – previously seen as a way of reducing costs while consolidating operations – for replacement after lingering questions about its effectiveness in practice. An extensive report from the state’s Economic Regulation Authority recommended the system should be replaced.

“TechnologyOne develops, sells, implements and maintains its own software, and this unique business model allows us to take complete responsibility for the success of each and every one of our customers' implementations,” TechnologyOne executive chairman Adrian Di Marco said in a statement.

“We have a 900-strong team in Australia with offices in every state and we are committed to delivering on budget, which is why we have around 150 state and federal government customers including the entire Government of Tasmania.”