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Pinellas County leaders outline Workday ERP selection, $22M plan and phased rollout
Summary
County staff told commissioners the county unanimously selected Workday to replace an aging Oracle-based ERP, outlined a phased, cloud-based rollout, projected $22 million implementation cost with conservative savings and said data conversion and legacy-system archiving are central concerns.
Pinellas County officials on Aug. 28 told commissioners they have selected Workday as the county’s next enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and outlined a phased, cloud-based implementation that county staff said will be one-time capital spending and will run alongside legacy systems during conversion.
County presenters said the decision followed an extensive request-for-proposal process and a unanimous recommendation from an eight-person evaluation team. ‘‘All eight people … voted on Workday unanimously as the best choice,’’ said Barry (staff member), who led the presentation and identified project leadership and subject-area evaluators. The project director, Anous Sarin, was named as the external implementation lead.
The county’s presentation said the current Oracle-based system has been in place for 15 years, contains many manual and redundant processes and is…
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