Title
Replacement of SunGard H.T.E. Application Software
History
In 1992, the Village purchased and implemented our current H.T.E. system software. At the time the H.T.E. system was one of the best municipal software packages on the market. Since then, the company has undergone multiple ownership changes and is currently owned by SunGard Public Sector. This software has reached end of life and the Village has not received substantial enhancements or improvements to the software in many years despite the hefty maintenance and support fees that are paid to SunGard Public Sector on an annual basis. The system has basically become obsolete and SunGard has not made any functional improvements or kept pace with new technology.
Dennis Harward, one of the principals that founded H.T.E. in 1981, originally sold the Village our current software system in 1992. Mr. Harward left H.T.E. in 1999 and in 2003 formed Innoprise Software. Innoprise targets much the same customer base as SunGard but with a much different approach. Instead of the more costly client-server based system that requires a proprietary IBM mid-range computer, Innoprise is a browser-based system that could run on virtually any hardware platform and operating system with the philosophy of empowering the end-user of the system with flexibility and increased productivity without technical knowledge or a special skill set to extract and analyze data. Since the Innoprise system is truly browser-based, it does not require any additional software to be installed on the client PC, and user or workstation licensing is not required. Attached you will find an overview of Innoprise Software - the company, its products and information about a number of Innoprise’s current clients.
Mr. Harward has approached the Village with a unique proposal that can potentially solve many of the issues that the Village has with the H.T.E. system, provide the Village with additional modules/functionality that H.T.E. does not offer...
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