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After phase II (Aug 94 - Feb 95): Financial Accounting sub-system

'So, when that is in place in Holland, Holland can get rid of the mainframe so it is a proper down sizing ... My philosophy was to leave the accounting aspects on mainframe systems, but the new X Finance Director, who has responsibility for IT, has changed the way that we look at those things. He's said that he wants independence in these countries, so that means that whereas at the moment X relies on XNetherlands and uses the mainframe, we want to get off the mainframe.

And it is looking as though it should be quite easy to do. Because all the policy issuing and all that kind of thing is on the Multinational system anyway. There's nothing..all the mainframe is used for at the moment is this, for accounting purposes and in fact it's not even really used for accounts receivable or accounts payable because it's not very good at that. So they just use the general ledger bit of it. ... Well this thing does it much better, it's a really good system. So they will end up with a really nice solution over in Holland. And then a proper downsize. First one of it's kind in the X-Group.'

X022 page 007.01b (tape 01.2.01b) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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