Enter Agresso ERP

According to IT Business Canada, Heather Paul was most instrumental in bring ERP to Whistler. Paul serves as both systems manager for the municipality and president of the Agresso North American Users Group.

Paul recently stated that Whistler is currently in the process of switching to Agresso ERP’s .Net version. The implementation is expected to be complete by December. Thus far, Whistler has implemented the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory and procurement, project costing and billing, and budget manager modules of the software. The most notable change for the city to this point has been the easing of IT department burdens of mix-and-match programs.

Paul had also taken into account the green nature of the ERP systems in terms of paper waste. Agresso has also enabled IT to do project costing and billing in order to manage capital projects spending. That means billable expenses, such as lawyers’ fees, can be billed back to external entities. Since the 2010 Olympics will require numerous construction projects and public works improvements to be tracked, Agresso software is planned to be extended for this use.

With a focus on organizations in transition, Agresso is deployed in 100 countries with more than 10,000 sites in 2,400 organizations and some 1.1 million users. Agresso is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unit 4 Agresso, which is headquartered in the Netherlands and employs approximately 2,300 worldwide. Unit 4 Agresso is a producer of business software for service companies and organizations and supplier of security software reaching US $450 million in revenues in 2005.