"This is a strategically-important contract for EDB. We are seeing strong market interest in our new solutions, and this vote of confidence by the six Østfold municipalities shows that EDB Digital Public Sector is an attractive product for Norwegian municipalities", explains Thomas Holter, director of EDB's public sector unit.

 

EDB is Norway's leading supplier of IT services for Norwegian municipalities, with more than 300 municipal and county authorities as customers. Over recent years, EDB has invested heavily in developing its solutions for public administration in the form of the new solutions platform known as EDB Digital Public Sector. This new suite of solutions is based on market-leading IT technology from the international software specialist SAP, and provides more efficient and unified management of a municipality's administrative requirements than was possible with the solutions that municipalities have traditionally relied on.

 

Regional collaboration between the Østfold municipalities
The six Østfold municipalities that have entered into this agreement with EDB are Askim, Eidsberg, Hobøl, Trøgstad, Spydeberg and Skiptvet. The municipalities in Indre Østfold have worked together for many years on service production and delivery through a joint unit known as Smaalensveven IKT. This collaboration is structured as a municipality-owned company that also operates as a purchasing company and centre of technical expertise for its owners. The municipalities represent a total population of approximately 60,000.

 

As part of this collaboration, it was important for the municipalities to find a unified solution that included both a technology platform and integration capability in order to reduce their IT costs. The operating services model the municipalities have now chosen is based on a local installation of the EDB solutions at Smaalensveven ICT. 

 

EDB Resource Allocation and Management will give the municipalities access to self-service solutions that deliver high levels of user efficiency for processing travel expenses, time recording, employee costs, purchasing and similar functions. The system gives the municipalities the opportunity to introduce new working processes that are unified across different sectors and entities, avoiding the significant restrictions which previously hampered efficient workflow. The solutions will also support and improve the efficiency of the municipalities' organisational development processes, which are important for recruiting and retaining high-quality employees. In addition, the solutions will allow the municipalities to consolidate the number of applications they use.

 

For further information, please contact:
Torgeir Kristiansen, Information Director, Corporate Communications, EDB. Tel: +47 901 27 909

 

About EDB