Steve Ward - Citizens CIO

Trinity

"Standardizing our financial systems has been a goal at Trinity for some time," said Jim Ivy, Trinity Industries' chief financial officer. "Working with BearingPoint, we'll be able to build a best-in-class enterprise-wide financial reporting structure. At the same time, we will be able to devote a much greater percentage of our time to our core businesses and value-added processes.?

"This culminates a year-long process in which we were assisted in developing a bid package and evaluating responses by the Everest Group, a consulting firm specializing in outsourcing," Ivy said.

Texas Online

“One of the chief things that contributed to BearingPoint's team making it as a finalist was the adaptability of their funding and infrastructure models. They offered a great deal of flexibility on how to fund e-government as well as a comprehensive infrastructure model that was detailed on the security side, the development side, and the outreach side,?said Phil Barrett, the Texas eGovernment Framework’s project director.

“We’re getting enormous interest from agencies,?remarks Barrett, “because BearingPoint built the Framework so that there’s a benefit to joining-we have not had to mandate participation.?Indeed, with BearingPoint providing development and maintenance of interfaces and front-end applications at no charge to participating agencies, the prospect of joining the Framework is an attractive one.

“The model and infrastructure we’ve jointly established is very robust,?continues Barrett. “The capability is there to save Texas citizens and businesses time and money while simultaneously enhancing the efficiency of Texas governments.?/i>