Department: Purchasing
Department Head/Elected Official: DeWight Dopslauf
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Amendment
Project ID (if applicable): N/A
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Oracle America, Inc.
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): 0%
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: 0% - Non-Divisible
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request that the County Judge execute an amendment to an agreement with Oracle America, Inc. in the additional amount of $1,029,105 for additional cloud services for Enterprise Resource Planning System for Harris County for the period of April 29, 2024 - April 28, 2025, Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: 0% - Non-Divisible.
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Background and Discussion:
Flood Control purchased on-premise Unifier licenses at the guidance of current leadership in Universal Services in 2019 to replace several custom application that were at end of life. Since that time technology has progressed and efficiencies gained in administration, hardware requirements, reduction of upgrade burden, and security through cloud services. The Flood Control District has decided to convert from on-premise to cloud licensing after examining the benefits in additional features available through the cloud license and the aforementioned efficiency gain.
Expected Impact:
? Oracle Cloud technologies and Primavera expertise is included for optimized
infrastructure provisioning and maintenance.
? Oracle enabled technology Integrations are configured, provisioned, and
maintained by Oracle Cloud
? Reduce on-premise support constraints
? Quickly take advantage of improvements in new releases when ready
? Elastic scalability for deployment nimbleness and flexibility
? Cloud support to minimize reliance on local IT support for Service Requests
and issue resolutions
? No hardware to utilize
? Minimize cost of administration and technical support of ...
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