UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force

The UK government has delayed the award of contracts worth £115m to power the migration from an on-premises platform for ERP to a cloud-based software-as-a-service model. The Cabinet Office confirmed that one contract worth £15m, first advertised in March last year and initially expected to start 1 November 2020, has yet to be …

[Pascal Monett]

"it's no good saying, once you get on the cloud, it's all going to be OK"

Wow, a politician with a smidgen of a grasp on reality.

Is it snowing in Hell yet ?

You guys need this guy to be Prime Minister real quick, before he gets caught up in the greasy pole antics.

[DCdave]

Re: "it's no good saying, once you get on the cloud, it's all going to be OK"

He's not a politician, he's a civil servant, although they are not known for their grasp on reality either, particularly when it comes to IT projects.

[Anonymous Coward]

MoJ information in The Cloud, under somebody else's control?

What could possibly go wrong?

Although once a few judges' information is splurged across the web from a leaky bucket, one hopes the judiciary start to take the issue seriously and hammer the suppliers with proper fines - thus setting a precedent for the rest of us to get more than just a mealy-mouthed apology and three months "free" credit monitoring...

[Potemkine!]

IMHO, moving such an application in the cloud is a bad move. Financially, I'm not sure it's a good bet in a long term, next all the internal competences and knowledge will disappear and finally, SaaS is a trap where the customer is in and cannot move without huge difficulties.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just showing Oracle they can't keep just putting more horrible systems in place and expecting to reap huge licence fees (and consultancy fees) will be value for the taxpayer.