Government News reports that the happy time of SAP and Oracle selling to Government might be coming to an end:
Just a week after the election of a new Coalition government, technology vendors have been notified that an “investigation into optimising Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems across the public service” will be put in train, with Finance to provide advice to the government in a report in 2015.
Finance documents provided to industry plainly say that it the department wants to “drive efficiencies to support a reduction in the net cost of ERP solutions to the Commonwealth” words that strongly indicate the government is no longer prepared to maintain spending at present levels.