Huntsville, Alabama, Chooses Tyler Technologies’ ERP Solution to Streamline Financial Operations, Enhance Services

Article: Huntsville, Alabama, Chooses Tyler Technologies’ ERP Solution to Streamline Financial Operations, Enhance Services

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The city of Huntsville Alabama has used the ERP system Munis to integrate its business activities across its departments and key resource functions in finance, budget and human resources to become more efficient. This is allowing the city to move away from paper and manual process to electronic systems to save time and money. It has also allowed the city to improve its business process and flow and to perform a better job.

Questions:

1. What is the city of Huntsville’s plan for redundancy since all the work flow indicated in the article depends on this ERP system?
2. How efficient is the Munis ERP system in the city’s business flow?
3. What are some of the advantages of the city’s implantation of this ERP system?
4. What are some of the disadvantages of this Munis ERP system?