Decision details

Approval of an IT Strategy and associated investment for the 2019 to 2022 time period

Cabinet:

·         Approved the IT and Digital Strategy;

·         Approved the decision to share the Sand Martin House Data Centre with Cambridgeshire County Council.

The IT and Digital Strategy had been set out in response to the existing and planned sharing of services across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. It would enable staff to work more effectively across both organisations, and thereby deliver more effective services to our citizens. It was essential that the IT provision supported and enabled secure, easy and robust sharing and collaboration. It was important that this was done on a cost effective basis with the minimum level of duplicate costs for equipment and licences.

In terms of the IT and Digital strategy, and the convergence of IT with Cambridgeshire, the alternative option was to retain the status quo and continue with separate systems that were not shared or converged with Cambridgeshire. This option had been rejected due to the overwhelming need for front line services, that were already shared between the councils, to move away from duplication of systems, logins, data entry and data analysis.

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