The case of software that has paralyzed the City: the patch, the hole and … – Straits Time

In the complicated bureaucratic universe of the City of Messina, also a software can become an obstacle for the regular payment of salaries and a If the symbol of the failure of the administrative machinery . To understand how this machine is jammed, just look at what happened in recent weeks in the Palazzo Zanca, where on December 31, 2015, expired on maintenance service and support of the economic and financial management software and wages, managed by Inventa Engineering Srl.

In an organization with an efficient administrative apparatus, the expiration of a contract would not involve any discomfort or certainly unexpected expenses. So though it was not the city of Messina. Only on December 31, the day of the reliance expiry of service to the firm mentioned above, the Secretary / Director General Antonio Women has formalized the ‘discovery of the new operator, or the company INF. OR Srl.

the transition from one manager and the timing for implementation of the new software have caused a temporary blockage of the service, preventing the accreditation of salaries and sowing panic among the employees of the City and the subsidiaries. The tensions arose for the delays in the monthly payments, intended to become a real state of ‘unrest, forced the city administration – after an intense exchange of correspondence and several meetings with the leaders of society – to extend the contract to Invent Engineering Srl.

All steps are retraced in determining executive of February 1 signed by the accountant general Antonino Cama , which is underlined ‘ the opportunity to proceed urgently to a reliance on the Company Inventa Engineering Srl for all closure activities for the year 2015, whose failure to perform will cause them serious and certainly to the City of Messina . “

According to wrote in the ruling, the extension was therefore made to prevent harm to the organization. Pausing on the economics of the whole operation, however, that view appears to be contradicted by the numbers. The extension reliance to Invent Engineering Srl Until February 29, 2016 (then less than two months) it will cost to the City more 6.160,00euro of VAT € 28 thousand, for a total of 34,160, 00 € . Figure slightly lower than the one that the entity will have to fork over an entire year to transfer the service into the hands of the new operator. In determining dated December 31, 2015 and signed by the Secretary / Chief Executive Women, it is determined that the acquisition of licenses and maintenance of the Financial accounting software, service and upgrade, to INF.OR Srl will be recognized, for the duration of one year, an amount of 39 thousand Euros excluding VAT .

While it is true that the new placement is certainly cost effective for the ‘ institution (custody all’Inventa had an annual cost of 132 thousand euro), appears equally indisputable that if the City had moved in time, without reducing the final day to locate the new manager such an important service, indeed vital, would not have necessitated the urgent extension of the Invent Engineering Srl. Zanca Palace could thus avoids having to withdraw from their coffers asphyxiated 34 thousand euro.

The case of software is proof that when the administrative machine jams or does not work as it should damage visited upon the citizens.

Danila La Torre