The Falls Church City Council’s 2027–2028 strategic priorities explicitly call for embracing new technology and supporting upgrades to IT systems, including an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform. The goal is to promote staff efficiency, enhance the customer experience for residents, visitors, and businesses, and strengthen cybersecurity and protection of public data. The document is a high‑level, forward‑looking plan, and no vendor, solution, or procurement method is named yet, indicating the initiative is still in the planning and requirements‑definition phase. This creates an opening for IT and ERP vendors, systems integrators, and cybersecurity consultants to help the City shape its requirements, modernization roadmap, and implementation approach ahead of formal solicitations. A practical conversation would focus on current-state assessments, phased ERP replacement, cloud migration, security hardening, and resident-facing digital services aligned with the Council’s “Good Governance” priority.
Framed under Good Governance, Strategy 3: Technology, which includes ERP upgrades and cybersecurity ...
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