Our town is in the midst of a continuing fiscal crisis. Our expenditures are growing faster than our revenues and will continue to do so. Looking at the private sector, productivity gains from information technology have been a driving force in cost reduction. Are there opportunities in information technology to help do so for the town? I have been looking at the website of the company, Tyler Technologies, which provides ...
... the MUNIS software for our financial reporting. They seem to provide many other modules which are integrated together to form an enterprise wide package. Right now we have different departments using different software. The school department business package can't exchange information with the MUNIS software, the assessor has a database which seems to be stand alone, there does not seem to be any town wide document management system. I am not familiar with the Tyler products but this is the type of system that could significantly reduce the time and effort needed to generate, track, store and share information across the town departments. This system is the kind of technology that I think may be used to drive down our costs. What do you think? Anyone out there familiar with Tyler and their products?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Getting more for less.
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Bill, I think the school dept has just switched-or are switching over-to MUNI now to eliminate the duplication of effort that has taken place over previous years. Pretty sure this is the case but you might want to check.
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