Workday has followed a £64 million central government ERP win with a £10.7 million local government contract to replace an Oracle system.
Hull City Council awarded the contract for seven years according to an October 11 contract notice, with the option for a three-year extension.
The contract is broken into “Software Provision and Implementation Services,” Hull said – with the former having an “estimated value of £700,000 per annum” and the latter over 1.5 years for a total £3 million.
According to a tender document Hull City Council’s existing Oracle EBS ERP system connects to 40 other systems. It is out of support and had been getting extended support from Rimini Street.
The contract win caps a strong year for Workday – which in its August earnings (for its fiscal Q2, 2025) revealed that it had joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time as it reported revenues of $2.085 billion.
Earlier this month the software vendor beat SAP and Oracle to a £144 million deal to standardise systems in the cloud across nine departments.
ERP vendor Workday will take £64 million of the contract and systems integrator Cognizant £81 million under the so-called “Matrix Programme.”
The programme will join the ERP systems of the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, Education (DfE), Health (DHSC) and several other departments.
It is one of several ambitious cross-departmental shared services efforts (including ERP standardisation) out to market, including the larger £1 billion Synergy programme that will bring together software for 250,000 users across the DWP, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Defra.
The Unity Programme meanwhile, which went to market in December 2023, does a similar thing (ERP + SI) for HMRC, Transport, and others.
