Published on the 30/01/2025 | Written by Heather Wright
NSW goes cloud, NZ’s CCC digital work continues…
SAP Australia has secured an AU$51.8 million contract with New South Wales’ Department of Customer Service to migrate a range of platforms from on-prem to the cloud.
The deal, awarded this month, includes SAP’s ERP software, the RISE finance platform and human resources and payroll systems, in a five-year agreement which runs from March to May 2030.
“The deal includes SAP’s ERP software, RISE finance platform and human resources and payroll systems.”
The project builds on NSW government’s earlier AU$200 million work developing a centralised ERP shared services platform, myWorkZone, to consolidate government ERP and SAP systems and simplify and standardise corporate and shared service systems and support for 75 NSW government agencies.
Late last year, Digital NSW said the program, which kicked off in November 2021, had been delivered, with onboarding, payroll, vendor payments and financial reporting delivered to more than 60,000 NSW government employees.
The integration is being overseen by Accenture under a seven-year, AU$198 million contract.
The latest deal includes SAP RISE, the ‘business transformation as a service’ offering to help customers migrate to the SAP cloud system with offerings including business process intelligence, cloud infrastructure oversight and cybersecurity measures.
Last June, SAP renewed its Australian Federal whole-of-government deal, which covers software, cloud and professional services, to the tune of $152 million initial value for another three years.
Meanwhile, across the Tasman, SAP work at Christchurch City Council, as part of a wider digital program, is also continuing.
The Council’s finance and performance committee was told there would be a ‘significant’ uplift in expenditure for the second half of the financial year, driven largely by the completion of negotiations with vendor partners who will be working alongside digital to deliver major projects like asset management, digital citizen experience and SAP enhancements.
The German software giant also inked a new four year deal with Auckland Council last June, with the council saying the deal will have projected savings for ratepayers of $42.1 million over the next seven years.
