Local Government Software
I saw this article and it felt awfully relevant to my work, especially this quote:
Councils, it notes, are “working within a market that doesn’t always provide what they need, where implementing even minor changes can incur significant costs and lengthy timelines and they are locked in to systems that aren’t fit for purpose. Added to this councils may not have the skills or knowledge to procure effectively.”
Collectively, councils spend around £1-2 billion ($1.26 billion to $2.52 billion) a year on IT directly, of which as much as £1 billion ($1.26 billion) is used to maintain outdated and legacy systems, the report says.
We have one system that is all of these things. The supplier no longer supports the on-prem version, so it’s horribly out of date and we’re having to spend time and money “securing” it because…
The cloud version doesn’t support some of our use cases, and the time-frame for them to implement them is on the order of years.
So we’re running a split system just now. The cloud version for the things it does support and the old on-prem system for the rest.