With regards to your social care case management system(s), please provide the following information:
Who supplies your current Children’s & Adults social care case management system(s)?
OLM
What reporting tools & reporting software do you use in conjunction with this system(s). For example, Business Objects; SSRS; Crystal Reports etc
Actuate
Business Objects
Is your case management system hosted on-site, or is it externally hosted?
Externally hosted
If your case management system is currently hosted on-site, do you have plans to move to external hosting? If so, when do you hope to achieve this by?
Please refer to our response to the question above.
How many people are directly employed by your Local Authority to support & maintain your social care case management system(s)?
10 people; this includes trainers and social care helpdesk.
Please specify the roles they carry out.? For example, Systems Admin; User Admin; Database Admin; Data & Performance Mgt; Data Cleansing; Training; Business Analysis; Project Manager; Supplier/Relationship Management; Super-User; Application Support etc
3 x Systems development
4 x System trainers
3 x social care ICT helpdesk
Please state how much time (FTE) is allocated to each role?
3 x Systems development – 2.8 FTE
4 x System trainers – 4 FTE
3 x social care ICT helpdesk – 3 FTE
Does an external supplier provide services to support & maintain your social care case management system(s)?
OLM provide standard support & maintenance as the system supplier, and support & maintenance for the system hosting. No other external suppliers provide services to support & maintain these systems.
If so, please specify the services they deliver? For example, Systems Admin; User Admin; Database Admin; Data & Performance Management; Data Cleansing; Training; Business Analysis; Project Management; Supplier/Relationship Management; Super-User; Application Support etc
Please see our answer to the question above.
Where appropriate, please state how much you spent in the last financial year (2016/17) on each of these services?
£432,397.71, of which £281,457.71 is software support and maintenance and £150,940.00 is hosting.
Excluding payments to the system supplier itself, please provide an estimate of your total expenditure on support & maintenance your social care case management system(s) in 2016/17?
We are only able to provide a vague estimate which we would estimate at being between £300k-£350k.