Aussie's Holy Spirit chants BI

SYDNEY: Agreements, totaling about $ 1.25 million with Australia's St Vincent's and Holy Spirit; and Scope, a U.K charity for people with disabilities; and U.K housing association - Spectrum Housing Group have been signed for web-enabled financial and purchasing solutions.

Of this, about $ 310,728 of the total is for software licenses, $ 543,774 is for implementation services, and $ 411,715 is for support and maintenance over five years.

As Australia's health information technology company iSoft announced, it has won three key contracts for its Integra suite of Web-enabled financial and purchasing solutions, including two in new sectors that offer growth potential for iSOFT’s Business Solutions unit.

In its third contract for Integra in Australia, iSOFT will install a complete financial and e-purchasing solution for St Vincent’s and Holy Spirit, including modules for Web-requisitioning and business intelligence. iSOFT has identified a demand for modern, Web-based solutions that drive-out inefficiencies in finance and purchasing processes to reduce costs.

In the U.K, Scope is buying an Integra e-procurement solution to raise orders online at its London head office and 370 shops across England and Wales. It will also use the OCR (optical character recognition) module to scan invoices, eliminate errors and speed the approval process. The charity expects savings of $ 806,452 over five years, as well as financial benefits arising from improved relationships with suppliers.

The agreement with Spectrum, a U.K housing association with 16,000 properties in the south of England, includes the full Integra financial suite plus the business intelligence and OCR modules for its seven offices. The Web-based solutions will allow users to raise purchase orders and access financial data to control invoices, payments and costs.

Eamonn Morris, Managing Director of iSOFT Business Solutions said in a release, "We identified public sector markets as being particularly suitable for our Integra suite of solutions, and it’s pleasing to see these efforts are already paying off."