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Discover how Unit4 are helping public sector organizations to increase citizen value with digital solutions for finance with FP&A and HR with HCM

Helping public sector organizations increase citizen value

Unit4’s government solutions

Drive efficiency, predictability and increase citizen value with Unit4’s solutions for Finance and HR

Unit4 helps public sector organizations boost productivity, reduce costs, effectively plan for the future, and improve citizen value. Our solutions transform how people work, freeing up resources to focus on more of what matters most – serving your citizens.

Gain agility through digital transformation

The Public Sector faces real challenges – with unprecedented demand for services in the face of budget uncertainties, workforce disruption, and a legacy IT infrastructure that can’t support rapid change.

Identifying the challenges

We all face the reality of todays challenges; ever growing demands, tightening budgets and changing priorities that stretch the capabilities of the legacy IT infrastructure. Adapting to the new way of working has increased the pressure on many government organizations and put greater urgency on their digital transformation program.

Remote work

¹ Gartner 2021 CIO Agenda: Government CIOs Step Up to Action for Digital Acceleration, December 2020

Initial or developing digital maturity stage

²Gartner Digital Maturity in Government: Lofty Ambitions Seldom Lead to Tangible Impacts, 17 April 2020: “Digital maturity in government remains low to moderate overall. On a five-level scale of digital maturity, 80% of government organizations fall between the initial and developing stages.”

Opportunities

These challenges bring a momentous opportunity to exploit technology to boost productivity, increase performance, reduce cost and ultimately improve frontline services. Technologies are set to positively change this complex world, how organizations engage with citizens, and each other, to make services future-proofed for the “never normal” environment.

Huge potential to
boost productivity

³Deloitte Government Trends 2020

Acceleration of
productivity gains

⁴Gartner 2021 CIO Agenda: Government CIOs Step Up to Action for Digital Acceleration, December 2020

Automation

⁵Government Trends 2021, Deloitte 2021

Technology that
enhances the people
experience

Users want their office technology to be as modern and capable as the technology they use in their private lives. This means tools that better support their role from any location, help them improve their performance, enable collaboration, and aid decision-making. More than before, technology, skills, and employee experience are playing a key role in the organization’s performance.

Unit4 has helped public sector organizations to:

• Improve operational efficiency • Recruit, retain, grow a digitally empowered workforce • Increase transparency, predictability, and accountability • Empower frontline services

Improve operational efficiency

Reduce the total cost of ownership without compromising capabilities.
Free up resources and time to focus on frontline service delivery.
Evolve at your own pace – in line with your priorities and budgets – using proven, industry best practices.

Unit4 is making the council smarter and more agile. By automating and streamlining processes in the cloud, as well as introducing self-service, Southampton City Council can direct more resources to frontline services.

Helen Baker, ERP Support and Development Manager, Southampton City Council

Customer success story:

Southampton City Council

Integrated finance and HR in the cloud, best-practice
process automation, intuitive self-service, and much
more are helping Southampton City Council deliver
modern, joined-up digital services to around
300,000 citizens and businesses at a greater value
than even before.

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Recruit, retain and grow a digitally empowered workforce

Attract and develop up-and-coming talent.
Increase user engagement, support wellbeing, and provide new ways of working.
Reduce the administrative burden to focus on higher value people-focused tasks.

With Unit4, we can stay in front of the change, manage the trust’s £300 million annual budget more effectively, and improve the health of the population.

Andy Large, Associate Director of Finance, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Customer success story:

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

The single, intuitive platform coupled with the cloud deployment, creates an engaging and rewarding
employee experience.

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Increase transparency, predictability and accountability

Take full control of your expenditures, income and budget.
Build a robust budget involving and engaging all relevant teams to ensure ownership and buy-in across the entire organization.
Better understand dependencies and save time and plan for the future more effectively.

Armed with this rich, evidence-based insight, we can connect our workforce to demand and achieve better outcomes
for citizens across southern Wales.

Umar Hussain, MBE, Chief Financial Officer, South Wales Police

Customer success story:
South Wales Police

South Wales Police achieved a single, golden record
of finance and HR data, driving process automation,
ease of use, and improved allocation.

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Empower frontline services

Automate your back-office and free resources to improve frontline services.
Respond to changing citizen needs by reconfiguring processes and services rapidly to ensure that best value is delivered at all times.
Empower the community by increasing social value and free-up greater investment in support of local initiatives.

These savings are really important because they enable us to go on providing high-quality support to our most vulnerable people, and to support our schools, delivering the very best
they can.

Andrew Couldrick, CEO, Wokingham Borough Council

Customer success story:

Wokingham Borough Council

Customer video: Wokingham Borough Council

Wokingham Borough Council has one of the most
digitally enabled back-offices in the UK, despite being the lowest funded unitary council in the country.

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Why the Unit4 public sector model

With years of experience of working with the public sector we have built a standardized methodology for implementations that deliver the desired results and functionality from the day one.

Out-of-the-box government functionality delivered
through a single platform

Finance &
Accounting

Supplier payments process
Sales orders, recurring billing and invoicing
Debt recovery
Bank reconciliation
Asset management
Auditability, reporting and control

Budgeting &
Planning

Operational budgeting
Operational forecasting
End-to-end process governance
Scenario planning

Program
Management

Capital program creation
Project initiation and budgeting
Project implementation
Project monitoring, time recording and reporting
Project forecasting

HCM

Organizational design
Recruitment and onboarding
Absence management
Payroll*, compensation and benefits
Travel and expenses
Learning and talent tools

Procurement

Supplier management
Contract and product catalog management
End-to-end purchasing process and governance
Funds checking

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*UK, Canada

The benefits of the Unit4 public sector implementation model

Specialized knowledge of PS industry
We understand your industry, so we build tailored solutions to give you the functionality, agility, and efficiency you need to manage your organization.

Future-proof technology
Unit4 is committed to investing in technology to ensure that our service continues to meet the changing needs of the public sector.

Fast time to value
A faster and reduced risk implementation process means benefits are realized quicker.

Improved data integration
Benefit from the flexibility to integrate with multiple changing technology stacks to unify data and drive operational excellence.

You can’t underestimate the impact of Unit4 on our modernization strategy. We are now sharing complete, accurate finance data across our organization mixed with data from other systems. HHNK is ultimately more agile, more adaptive, and better positioned to keep the region safe from floods and supplied with sufficient clean water.