Ludwigsburg: City wants to earn money with software – Stuttgarter Zeitung

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Ludwigsburg – Ludwigsburg The city wants her town hall for 290 000 € – upgraded with the latest software – without the costs. The CDU in the council “not skin the thing off my chair.” Ingo Schwyz asked instead: “Do we really need a twelve-cylinder AMG, does it not also a four-cylinder diesel” The responsible department head Robert Nitzsche rather chose a comparison of consumer electronics: “It’s like switching from the phone onto the smartphone. Who still has a cell phone? “The municipal employees but should still work with a system based on Excel, he told the Economic Committee. Effective networks are excluded, as a simultaneous work with the data. A modern administration but need a software in which you can feed current records as well as fix bugs quickly.

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According to the Mayor Werner Spec is the transition to such a system “the logical next step.” After the introduction of future conferences and town development plans, a giant package of 14 individual master plans is accrued. Yet there is much redundancy, because strategic goals and concrete tasks often can not be coordinated. “This is yet as in type case. But where high concurrency is, you need transparency, “he says. A modern computer program could accelerate the initiated urban development process. “We need a program that manages to underpin action fields with numbers,” Nitzsche said. It must be so flexible that each department at any time to access the critical control points for them. But unfortunately: there are no ‘standard software on the market. Why the administration has decided to give the pioneers.

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After a long search, the city, the company SAS (Statistical Analysis System) obtained as a developer for the new control program. A second partner is the Municipal Data Processing Region Stuttgart (KDRS). “We provide the practical part, the SAS software and KDRS hosting, that the hardware system,” Nitzsche said. At the cost of around 290 000 EUR in the first year 55,000 Euros come in the second year. Then must be calculated annually 92,000 euros each.

Hoping for royalties

In return Ludwigsburg could hope for royalties, said the OB. If successful, other cities would also buy the program. “Because it simply does not exist such a thing, the demand is great,” said Spec. At each sale, the town is then involved with ten percent. That you have the SAS wrested says Nitzsche.

“Why should we be the lucky ones, in which work, what other cities do not seem to manage” wanted Michael Vierling (Green) know. The inputting of the data was a murder expense, Nitzsche said: “We have made the hard labor that do not want to make another.”

The FDP City Council Jochen Eisele wanted to “go along” with the project, and also Reinhardt Weiss (FW) hopes to “create value for the City”. Laura Wiedmann (Green) is skeptical because it is a pilot project, and Daniel O’Sullivan (SPD) would have liked it more affordable.

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