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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend contract No. 31808 with BMC Software, Inc., of Houston, TX, for acquiring additional workload automation software licenses with technical support services for $55,757; and
Increase appropriations in the General Services Fund (IS 385) in the Technology and Innovation Department (TI) by $55,757. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to authorize the City Manager to execute an amendment to the contract with BMC Software, Inc. (BMC), to acquire additional workload automation software licenses with technical support services for managing the daily operations of the City’s business applications.
The Technology and Innovation Department (TI) manages over 500 Unix/Windows servers and an enterprise mainframe server. These servers run approximately 300 business applications including financial management, budget preparation, human resources, payroll, customer information systems (CIS), customer care and billing (CCB), Police, Fire, and land management systems.
BMC’s workload automation software is used to schedule and manage the operations of the business applications across the server environment, including managing data transfers and synchronization between business applications. In December 2014, the City was licensed for 1,300 daily tasks, and in April 2016, the City increased the licenses to 1,600 daily tasks. The City is currently operating 1,800 daily tasks, and this purchase will increase the City’s licenses to 1,900 daily tasks. Continued growth is expected as the City develops and integrates the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, CIS, and other new business applications.
On December 2, 2014, the City Council approved the acquisition of 1,300 perpetual licenses with three-years of software maintenance at an annual amount of $245,927 over three-years. This acquisition transitioned the licensing model from a subscription to a...
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