E-hub provides flexible, customisable functionality and industry best-practices to Local Government. Consisting of a modular set of feature-rich components, capable of customisation to create the best solution for Councils and their suppliers, the solutions include: Procurement Manager The Procurement solution enables Councils to significantly reduce procurement costs by streamlining and automating purchasing processes for goods and services. This solution helps you to integrate multiple suppliers, implement strategic sourcing, and leverage greater buying power, and strengthen key supplier relationships. Key modules include: Requisitions, Request for Quotes, Suppliers, Contracts, Stock Tender Manager The Tender-hub solution offers awarding authorities a complete end-to-end tender management solution from building the tender document, publishing & administrating online notices, evaluating responses & generating the contract award to integration with a contracts management system. Marketplace The Marketplace solution enables Councils to bring multiple suppliers and buyers together in a powerful online hub, offering a more efficient, cost-effective, and highly scalable way to conduct business transactions. This can be sub regional, district or county wide, and can be integrated with your Council website. Integration: The E-hub e-Procurement function can be integrated with any existing FMS, using real time updates or batch updates via XML, flat file, CSV file import. The solution has already been successfully integrated with Agresso, Peoplesoft JD Edwards, Sun Financials, Oracle Financials and Consilium (Task) Financials. For further information, please email info@e-hub.com or call us on +44 28 30254872 About E-HUB For many years, organisations have been forced to bear extravagant costs for their business software. As a result, many have simply done without software that could have made them more efficient. e-hub will provide key software applications to assist the running of any business, looking after your business information securely and confidentially. No longer will businesses need to worry about licensing, computer crashes, lost information and expensive IT support. e-hub have created a suite of hosted applications that will help any organisation carry out its day to day activities. The suite was developed to make common business processes more efficient and agile. Each of the applications streamline business processes by reducing paperwork, making it simple and less expensive to store, organise, analyse, process and distribute valuable information and co-ordinate related tasks and people. The E-HUB Approach Under the ASP model, applications and supporting hardware platform are hosted in an offsite data centre. You can access this centre over the internet and will be charged on a subscription basis. We provide all the computing power, storage, and network infrastructure needed to deliver the applications, as well as the staff to manage the entire platform. We have found that the benefits of outsourcing e-business solutions included a low capital outlay, application management and ongoing support (including upgrades), no IT staff maintenance burdens and a rapid ROI.