Welcome to the new Public Sector ERP Insights, a publication that brings the latest industry perspectives, government thought leadership, and ERP solutions from CGI's AMS Advantage ERP program.

As an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution provider solving public sector challenges for over 30 years, CGI brings you something of new value this spring: a look at public sector themes that focus on issues relating specifically to government. More »

Leveraging Service Oriented Architecture to Transform the Business of Government
By Atul Singh, Director Consulting, CGI Solutions Management

One of the hottest IT topics in any market is services-oriented architecture, or SOA. SOA promises to be a significant innovation for government. Imagine the ability to pick and choose business and technology services; to trade out services based on organizational redesign, new strategic intent, legislative requirements or business process modifications; to reduce redundancy and improve data quality. SOA is not another new technology. It is a whole philosophy about sharing and decoupling business processes from technology to enable a fluid government that can change and change quickly. SOA is the strategy that will extend legacy applications to handle business processes across government. More »

Trends of Public Sector ERP: The Best Approach for Government
By Charlie Johnson, Vice-President Consulting Services, AMS Advantage ERP Program

As governments work to transform their environments from an internal resource optimization to a process integration and external collaboration focus, ERP stands at the forefront of solutions that will achieve this goal. ERP is proven to significantly increase efficiency, improve information access, reduce total cost of ownership, and help government achieve the highest levels of accountability and constituent service. More »

How to Harness e-Procurement to Standardize Procedure, Maximize Spending and Drive Efficiencies
By Susan Capstack, Executive Consultant, AMS Advantage ERP Program

Taxpayers and election campaign platforms seem to be in complete agreement when it comes to government spending—reduce it! Yet the demand for government services continues to grow. Stuck in the middle of these conflicting demands are the agency leaders and procurement professionals who have to find a way to "do more with less." More »