CITY OF ST . LOUIS
“ Legacy systems and a multitude of platforms are also harder to maintain and support and don ’ t offer the features that allow us to have better customer contact , enhanced service delivery and efficiency in operations ,” Simon notes . “ We currently have a project to migrate off the mainframe . It ’ s a huge consumer of power and when you only have a few systems running on it , it ’ s not financially efficient .
“ We hope this will set us up on a better foundation to be more responsive citizens , to avail ourselves of industry advances , to enable us to deliver services better and also to address talent challenges in supporting legacy systems ,” he explains . “ We ’ ve recently completed an Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) implementation for both HR and Finance ,
“[ The City ] has talked about increasing access to the internet and providing locations where people can go to access Wi-Fi ”
SIMON HUANG CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICIER , CITY OF ST . LOUIS
318 September 2024