Interagency cooperation was the hallmark of this shared services project bringing the State Emergency Service (SES) onto the NSW Fire Brigade’s (NSWFB) SAP infrastructure. Freya Purnell reports.
Background
Prior to the current push towards consolidation into a ‘superagency’ structure by the NSW Government, NSWFB had been in discussions with the SES for a year about potentially sharing technology. NSWFB is the largest emergency services agency in the state, and had begun working on SAP in 2006 – starting with FI/CO, and moving onto Materials Management (MM) and HR/Payroll coupled with Business Intelligence in 2007 and 2009 respectively. As a much smaller agency, the SES was keen to provide this SAP functionality to its users while leveraging the NSWFB infrastructure. According NSWFB IT Systems unit program manager, Sean Nairn, the outcome of these discussions was to on-board the SES to its SAP system, through a shared services model.
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