Ordina and Municipality of Amsterdam win Business Intelligence Award with open source project
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, 5 March 2012
Ordina and the Municipality of Amsterdam won the European Software Excellence
Award in the category Business Intelligence in Berlin. Ordina and the
municipality were being nominated as a finalist in this category a few weeks
ago, for an open source project conducted for a large Dutch municipality. This
project consisted of an integrated open source solution that collects financial
and management information from a variety of different systems. The solution
offers public officials complete insight into the progress, status of budgets
and other management information of all large-scale projects for the Physical
Planning Department (known as 'Dienst Ruimtelijke Ordening' in the Netherlands).
Since then, other municipal departments have also adopted the software. The
Municipality of Amsterdam has started restructuring all of their own IT systems.
This Award demonstrates that the first successes are being achieved. Ordina
collaborated with JasperSoft, supplier of Open Source Business Intelligence
solutions, on this project.
"The finalists all had projects of an excellent calibre. Yet Ordina's project
stood out from the rest in terms of the solution's high added value for the
client, the Municipality of Amsterdam", according to John Chapman, Editorial
Director of IT Europa, organiser of the European Software Excellence Awards.
The Municipality of Amsterdam's Physical Planning Department Director Hans Tijl
is the contract principal. "These uncertain times certainly call for a financial
finger on the pulse at all times, being able to look far into the future and to
correct the course of a project immediately when this is called for. This
product gives us up-to-date insights into costs and returns. The beauty of an
open source product is also that it is future proof per definition, because it
will work with the existing and future financial systems of the Concern
Amsterdam." Tijl is critically enthusiastic about the use of IT: "I have never
been a fanatical open source proponent. An organisation is led with facts and
results, not with ideologies. In conjunction with Ordina, we selected proven
open source, with transparency, also in the interaction with existing and future
closed applications and systems. It is great that our colleagues will also be
able to use it from now on."
"The fact that we were named the winners of the Business Intelligence award, by
an independent party such as IT Europa, is a confirmation of the
implementation's success," says Joris Höppener, Director of the Business
Solutions division at Ordina. "The judges evaluate the success of the
implementation, the solution's level of innovation and the value added to the
client. We scored high on all of these aspects thanks to the level of
cooperation between the client and the service providers. The excellent
cooperation between Ordina, Jaspersoft and the municipality enabled us to
implement Jaspersoft's innovative open source solution successfully within the
organisation. This implementation gives over 300 users a complete overview of
the status of their projects at a single glance. This improves the overall
control of the municipality's large projects and ensures a more effective way of
working. The Award's judges clearly recognised this too and we are very proud of
that."
IT Europa organises the European Software Excellence Awards annually. The
organisation uses the Awards to highlight the best solutions in the market.
These solutions stand out because of their high degree of applicability within
the client organisation or the unique cooperation between the supplier and the
client or because the solution added such significant value to the client
organisation. The Awards are not intended for standard products.
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About Ordina
Ordina implements strategy in business processes and IT. We create and build
solutions for a sustainable digital world. Collaborating with our clients,
partners and suppliers brings us the best solutions. We are organised into
specialised divisions for consulting, solutions and IT. We are active throughout
the Benelux, offering (reusable) solutions and knowledge to the financial
services, government and healthcare markets as well as a few specific segments
within the industry market. Ordina N.V. was incorporated in 1973 and its shares
are quoted on Amsterdam's Euronext Stock Exchange, where they are included in
the Midkap Index. In 2011, Ordina generated revenue in excess of 426 million
Euros with over 3.000 employees.
MORE INFORMATION:
Ordina N.V.
Sabine Steen-Lakerveld, PR Manager / Corporate Communications Consultant
Tel: +31(0)30 663 7878
Sabine.Steen-Lakerveld(at)ordina.nl
www.ordina.com
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