Chorus: deployment in the French Ministries of National Education, Higher
Education, and Research.
Chorus: deployment in the French Ministries of National Education, Higher
Education, and Research.
A contract between €6 and €10 million for the operational assistance for
the deployment, training and start-up assistance. More than 3,000 users are
involved.
Background & Challenges
Chorus is the new information system for the management
of the French State’s financial system. This system requires
modernisation.
Accompanying the implementation of the LOLF
(Organic Law on the Finance Laws of 1 August 2001), this
major programme of the Ministry of Finance forms part
of a determined effort to improve the performance and
transparency of public governance.
It constitutes a key step in the general overhaul of
public policies and represents a powerful lever for the
rationalisation of processes and the pooling of resources.
Sopra Steria tasks
After having made a commitment at the
highest possible level and mobilised its
best experts for the successful design and
implementation of an exchange system
between Chorus and the various Ministries,
Sopra Steria has been chosen at the beginning
of 2009 to carry out a new mission in the
State finance modernisation programme
(the Chorus programme) in partnership with
BearingPoint.
The mission concerns the global deployment
of Chorus in the Ministries of National
Education, Higher Education, and Research.
It consists of operational assistance for
deployment (batch 2), training, and start-up
assistance (batch 4). It involves all the districts
of continental France as well as the French
overseas departments and communities,
consisting of more than 3,000 users.
These two batches, come to a total of between €6 and €10 million and
will cover a period of 18 months.
Sopra Steria is teaming up with the Agency for State Financial
Information Technology (AIFE) in order to ensure this new operation
exemplifies best practice in the field of managing administration
transformation projects.
Sopra Steria is teaming up with the Agency for State Financial
Information Technology (AIFE) in order to ensure this new operation
exemplifies best practice in thefield of managing administration
transformation projects. This new mission will provide Sopra Steria
with an opportunity to confirm its expertise in major public-sector
modernisation projects and its deep sense of commitment.
Customer Benefits
Chorus manages State non-fiscal income, payments and accounts in
accordance with the requirements of the LOLF.
Chorus interfaces to more
than 200 ministerial and
inter-ministerial accounting
and financial applications. It
will be gradually deployed in
all central and local State
Administrations from 2009.
The management of the
Chorus project was
entrusted to the AIFE
(Agency for State Financial
Information Technology)
which fulfils its
responsibilities in close
collaboration with the
Ministries and other
stakeholders concerned.