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St. Johns County School District, FL Selects SunGard’s BusinessPLUS Finance and Human Resources Software
February 24, 2010 — Lake Mary, FL
St. Johns County School District, Florida has selected SunGard Public Sector’s BusinessPLUS as its finance and human resources administration solution. Part of the PLUS Solutions suite of products for K-12 education, BusinessPLUS is a Web-based financial and student administration product featuring a centralized financial database with budget forecasting, purchase orders, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, human resources and payroll.
BusinessPLUS will help St. Johns County School District deploy resources more strategically by automating tedious data entry functions. BusinessPLUS is designed to handle the unique challenges that occur in school districts, with the ability to tailor to an organization's specific needs. The school district software reflects SunGard Public Sector’s understanding of fund accounting, position budgeting, position control, contract pay, retirement, benefits and other unique requirements of school districts. BusinessPLUS will help St. Johns County School District improve business processes through workflow-enabled modules, help reduce IT costs by providing a Web-based solution, and help gain real-time access to key information through configurable user-specific dashboards.
About SunGard Public Sector
SunGard Public Sector serves a wide range of customers—city and county governments; public safety, justice, and security agencies; school districts; not-for-profit organizations; and state and central governments. SunGard Public Sector products include public administration, public safety and justice, and K-12 education software applications, as well as performance management and managed services. These solutions impact more than 140 million citizens in North America and 40 million citizens in the UK. Visit SunGard Public Sector at www.sungardps.com.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com
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