The Department of Education (Tasmania)

The department and its schools also found ECR extremely easy to implement, with little refinement needed to suit the needs of its finances and processes. Additionally, ECR is so simple and efficient that the broad range of users across the department are able to easily use and understand the system.

The DoE’s Director of Finance, Nick May, said the simplicity of implementation and ability of the module to easily integrate with existing systems was invaluable to the department’s operation.

“ECR was extremely simple and painless to implement and needed very little refinement to suit the financial needs of the department,” he said.

Mr May also explained ECR has been favourably received by employees at the DoE, in particular the financial services team.

“Staff in our central financial services area undertake a range of financial control processes across the system and ECR makes maintaining these controls a much simpler and more efficient process. Also, if a transactional problem does arise, it is much easier to troubleshoot and resolve. Effectively, it makes the lives of our financial staff significantly easier,” he said.

ECR will also help the department reach future goals and maintain a strong standard of service to its school staff.

“A major department goal is to ensure school office staff are provided with the best possible working environment, and ECR helps achieve this by making their work lives easier and more productive,” said Mr Dineen.

Mr May also explained the importance of investing in technology to help improve business standards and increase productivity.

“From a central perspective, ECR helped us build a better understanding of the revenue profiles of schools and the transactional activity behind that revenue,” he said.

“ECR is also a good example of how innovation and technology can assist in school administration. Implementing easy-to-use administrative applications like ECR provides efficiencies that enable the department to transform its business and drive productivity within schools.”