MISA/ASIM Canada

Municipal Information Systems Association / Association des systèmes d'information municipale Canada

MISA/ASIM Canada is a not-for-profit corporation with five member associations promoting the development and operation of municipal information systems and citizen-centred services.

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Municipal Group Creates Plan for Reform of ERP Services

TORONTO, November 8, 2009 – A group of municipalities working to build a roadmap to guide their policies and practices with respect to ERP technologies has, for the first time, created a program to define the reforms they want.

The ERP Municipal Users’ Special Interest Group of 14 municipalities has agreed to present to vendors of ERP solutions an 11-point reform program. It sets down the negotiating position that the group members will use in future when considering the purchase or upgrading of technologies usually found in ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) systems.

The reform program was approved by representatives of the group at a meeting September 23 during Showcase Ontario at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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MISA/ASIM Canada to Create Partnership for MRMv2 Service

TORONTO, November 4, 2009 -- The MISA/ASIM Canada Board of Directors has approved an agreement with IBM Canada that will lead to the release of the first version of the proposed Municipal Reference Model Version 2 service on the Web by the end of 2009.

That means that Canadian municipalities will become the first in the world to have a national service available to them for describing, organizing, and planning their service delivery in a consistent manner using a standard set of software templates and modelling tools.

With the Board’s approval, MISA/ASIM Canada has purchased licences from IBM Canada for the underlying software products. The products include Rational Software Modeler, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Requisite Pro and Lotus Quickr, among others. To support this initiative, IBM has developed software extensions to automate the flow of information among these products.

Funds for the project were donated by municipalities from across Canada: Edmonton, Fredericton, Halton Region, London, Markham, Mississauga, Niagara Region, Peel Region, Richmond Hill, Saskatoon, Timmins, Toronto, the City of Waterloo and York Region.