A division of the Scottish Government is planning to consolidate two Oracle business systems into a single suite and make it available as a shared service for the country’s central administration.
The Shared Services Programme (SSP), which is part of the Scottish Government Transformation Directorate, has awarded a £2.4 million contract to IBM as a service provider to support the move.
SSP currently makes the SG Enterprise Accounting System available for finance and purchasing, and the e-HR system for HR and payroll functions.
In the contract award notice it has indicated that it plans to move from using these to a single Oracle Cloud solution supported by standardised processes, policies and a target operating model.
The Scottish Government first indicated that it was investigating the possibility of a shared service enterprise resource planning system in 2021. This included a reference to making it available to the wider public sector in Scotland.
