Area development projects with multi-million euro budgets from the Municipality of Amsterdam safely to the cloud

The municipality of Amsterdam not only benefits from a faster and safer app, but also from the improved user-friendliness: accessible and logically displayed data, the ability to customize reports and a clear, visual user interface that makes it easy to navigate.

For a large municipality like Amsterdam, area development is a complex working area that involves many budgets, settlements and other financial matters. Pagoni is a powerful calculation application that has been specially developed to support municipalities in this. The app has fully automated many manual processes and minimizes the chance of calculation errors. With Pagoni, you always have direct insight into the financial status of projects and budgets, taking into account current laws and regulations and even taking a predictive look at the future.

Pagoni was previously hosted on-premise with about 3 updates per year. The municipality of Amsterdam is a large organization and adopting new versions of the app was therefore quite slow. With the risk that the system would lag behind on security, among other things. In addition, the app was still running with outdated technology (Oracle ADF).

The will to modernize was there, but the municipality also wanted to be 100% sure that the computing capacity and reliability of the app would be guaranteed. For example, performing interest and inflation calculations according to the latest legislation.

AMIS Conclusion advised to move to the Oracle Cloud. Adeline Kronemeijer: "We moved the Oracle database and Pagoni 1 on 1 to the cloud while maintaining the integrity of the app. In addition, we have replaced the front with newer technology (Angular). 

This gives us more opportunities to develop and make it easier to implement new wishes. Also, less processing power is now needed on the front end, making the app faster. And not unimportantly, the system is scalable."

In addition, the system is updated every two weeks and Pagoni can count on an Oracle database. He is naturally strong in dealing with data and calculations. The advantage of Pagoni as a SaaS service is that it is now also financially accessible for smaller municipalities to purchase this calculation giant.

Adeline Kronemeijer of AMIS Conclusion: "When moving to the cloud, you always look at what you need and what settings go with it. After the first week, for example, we saw that the server was estimated too low in terms of capacity and the load too high. That made the app slow. The next day, the capacity had already been increased, with the app only being down for a short time." "The biggest challenge was the link with the active directory. This makes it possible for all Pagoni users to log in with their own municipality of Amsterdam, instead of separate user accounts. That process was delayed, because coordinating with different departments takes a lot of time," says Adeline Kronemeijer of AMIS Conclusion.

With the cloud solution from AMIS Conclusion, the municipality of Amsterdam has the certainty of 24/7 monitoring of the system. In addition, AMIS Conclusion organises user consultations, in which wishes for the future are discussed and monthly adjustments are made to see how things are going and whether everything still meets the requirements of the users.